It was almost lunchtime when Umair came to my desk and asked me this: “How do I say: “I am going to the bathroom?”
“Why do you want to know that?” I asked.
He replied: “Because I was on my way to the bathroom, I got curious, and started thinking: How would I say this in Spanish?”
He continued: “I already know a little about the present tense. But how do I talk about the future in Spanish?”
I explained that an easy way to say “I am going to the bathroom” in Spanish is: “Voy a ir al baño”, and then continued to share a few essential tools to talk about the future in Spanish during lunch.
Today, we will review a few of the tools I shared with him that day and additional ones that have been very useful for my students over the years.
In this article, we will review a few conversational shortcuts that will be useful for beginners who want to talk about the future in Spanish without memorizing many conjugations.
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