Hola Sydnee! There are lots of past tenses! The one you are describing is the preterito, a narrative tense for describing one-off actions in the past. It goes: comí, comiste, comió, comimos, comisteis (you pl. in Spain only), comieron. Endings are the same for -ir verbs, but -ar verbs go hablé, hablaste, habló, hablamos, hablasteis, hablaron. You need to try to ensure you're stressing the correct syllable, so that hable (he speaks) is distinguishable from hablé (I spoke) Common verbs are quite often irregular in this tense. eg ir, tener, hacer, dar, ver... You'll need to learn these separately, but there's normally a pattern. Also, look out for radical changing verbs such as pensar, which loses the i when the stress isn't on the syllable, so pienso (I think), becomes pensé (I thought), or volver, which loses the u, so vuelvo becomes volví. All the irregularity looks a bit scary at first, but don't worry! These are the most common verbs you will use, you'll practice them a lot and will pick it up pretty quickly. Chao, Dan

I don't really agree that they are interchangeable. I'm not sure if I can do any better in defining them, but I will try! Sunlight - I would say this is used in the context of distinguishing light from light that comes from other sources. i.e. you can compare sunlight to moonlight, torchlight, lamplight etc. Put simply, it is any light that comes from the sun. You may say that you can see by sunlight, that sunlight causes photos to fade, or that plants use sunlight to create energy, but you wouldn't use sunshine in this context. Sunshine - This refers to the quality and brightness of the light from the sun. So you may have a beautiful day, with no clouds in the sky, and you can say that "you are going outside to enjoy the sunshine", Similarly on a cloudy day you may say there is no sunshine. In both situations there is sunlight, which you are using to see, but would not use "sunlight" to describe the brightness and quality of that light. I hope that makes some sense!