Spanish language Q&A Forum

QWhat Is the difference between estuve/estaba/era/fui

do you think you could give the translation into english of the dictation exercises at the end? - as it would be helpful thanks :) 

"de joven" and "cuando eran jóvenes" are both used for "when you were young".  When should "de" be used and when should "cuando era/eran/eras" be used? Thanks. 

“I am confused when " preterito " is appended to most of the tenses. This practice is not widely used in Spain or Latin countries. Why not use the tenses which are commonly used. I know that the preterite is used for past tense so when preterito perfecto subjuntivo is mentioned I expect that the past subjunctive is meant NOT the perfect subjunctive! I wonder whether other participants experience the same problem.“  In school, we never learned the English equivalents of these various subjunctive terms.  We didn’t really learn much about the subjunctive in English at all.  It was a whole new concept beginning to learn it in Spanish.  How is it taught to Spanish speaking children? Do they find it confusing?

Why does changing g to j preserve the infinitive pronunciation?