Beginners Skype chat. --impressions--- Saturday, 7th August, Prepare Present Simple vs Present Continuous
Next Saturday I am hosting a new Skype chat session for beginners. 
Time: **11.30, Spain**
This time we are going to practise
Present simple vs Present continuous.
Please make a revision of these tenses in the reference section.
I will expect from everybody to have two sentences prepared in Spanish and English (for our students of English).
Guidelines:
English sentences:
a) Use Present simple only for everyday, habitual actions in English.
b) Use Present Continuous for actions which take place now and in the future.
Spanish sentences:
a) Use Present Simple for present actions (even those taking place right now in some cases) and actions in the future.
b) Use Present Continuous only for actions which are taking place right now.
The idea is to give the fellow chat member a sentence in English and he has to translate the sentence to Spanish. You will have to prepare the correction yourself, so don't forget to translate the sentence yourself too!!!
For Spanish speakers, you will each have to ask one question in Spanish, and she (this will be Meli) will have to translate the sentence to English.
I will also ask a question or two about the sentences and maybe give you one difficult use of the tense to translate to English
There are a lot of beginners, be fast to tell me if you want in or out!
Members: Nametaken, Goyo, Melipuri, Rikko, Ray, Jason, Annie, Hielohombre, Silent Hero, Sanlee, Inglesloco, el estudiante.
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These chats are fabulous! I'm there every Saturday lol. Thank you so much for these chats Heidi 
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This Saturday was great! I learned loads! However, I think from now on I am going to answer John's questions and he is going to answer mine 
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Rikko playing the piano was I N C R E D I B L E!!!!! The piece he played was so beautiful. Thank you very much for that Rikko and thank you for persuading him Heidi .
Nametaken, Melipuri, Rikko, Ray, Jason, Annie, Hielohombre, foxluv, Sanlee, Inglesloco, el estudiante.
This has been a very funny chat.
Everyboy had prepared the chat very well, however it was not easy to get the correct translation as the tenses are quite differently used
Hielohombre was new and estudiante had not come for a long time. Foxluv had serious problems as she had not seen this thread.
However, we used el estudiante and rikko to help others
, Meli did very well on her English, and everybody did really well. Unfortunately Annie was sent to the dunce corner for life...as she used a subject pronoun, which made everybody roll on the floor!
Later the chat was mixed and Eddy , samdie and leslie, whose Spanish is superb (!) and we had a good laugh with "bad words". And of course the mod: Marianne
Some people left...but it was a shame as at the end of the chat...we were very fortunate to be able to convince our friend Rikko to play the piano for us. He is a real artist and everybody was simply ...S T U N N E D!
I hope you had a good time and see you next chat, in which we might do something about the use of gustar and encantar etc
Hi to all.
I really enjoyed the chat at even though you didn't know, I was there until the end I enjoyed the piano playiing a lot Rikko thanks for that.
Thank you Heildita for making me laugh a lot.
I do think it is very useful but what is strange is as soon as you talk to me I don't understand anything but when you aret talking to everyone else I can understand nearly all.
Once again I would like to thank everybody that takes part in the chats and SD it is a great place to be.
I missed it! 
Do we know when the next chat will be?
This was a great chat. We got to meet heilohombre the ice cutter. He sculpts for weddings and to meet foxluv. We had fun translating each others sentences. It is great practice and I recommend it to everyone. Try a chat. They are very exciting. Here is an example of a sentence that meli gave me to translate:
We are cooking fish. Estamos cocinando pescado.
The chat August 7 was great. We were laughing alot and enjoying each others' company. Tortuga was demanding, so we all got alot from the chat and were excited to learn more.We had about 12 people from all over the world. Que te vaya bien.
The chat was very good!! The people participating in the chat, in my humble opinion, took a lot away from it!! Present continuous and present simple is a difficult concept for all but our fearless leader, Sweet Heidi, guided us like only she could!!! I have a lot to work on but the skype chats are helping a lot!! Thanks to all who were involved, it made the chat!
Oops! Sorry that I missed this thread. Had a fantastic time. A great group and a learning the differences between present and continuous has cleared up a lot for me. I think that I've been using them wrong the whole time, and have confused a lot of people when I speak! The palabrotas session was hilarious, and Rikko's playing was simply amazing.
Thank you so much, Heidita, for doing this!
I am definately going to be there more regularly. Unfortunately, I have to work every other Saturday night, so I'll see you guys on the 21st! (as well as checking in on the chat conversation and threads to see what I missed!)
¡Hasta entonces!
I'd like to participate. I'll have to figure out the Skype part. My laptop has the basic free stuff preinstalled but I've never used it. Do I need to purchase anything?
Please mind the time change for this chat:
Time: Spain, 11.30
I was at the last one, but I won't be able to make it this time. I know you didn't have my name on the list already, but I wanted to clarify that just to make sure you knew.
Awesome! This is one of those things that makes me think: 'This has got to be the best website out there to learn Spanish!' The 7th I will be on vacation in England, so can't join in :S.
Estaré allí, con seguridad,
I'll be there, for sure.
¡Será allí! Ardo en deseos de que ello. I will be there. I can't wait for it.
Yes, I would like to join. See you then.
