B1 (¡Ya le agarras la onda!)Used EVERYWHERE 🇲🇽Standard Spanish 😌
🧠 What it means
This is another super useful chunk and one that you’ll be using A LOT once you get your head around it!
It’s basically just a really neat way of linking events:
👉 on/upon + infinitiveAl llegar a la playa, me metí en el mar luego luego. When I got to the beach, I got into the water straight away.*Al terminar la tarea, el niño empezó a jugar videojuegos. After finishing his homework, the boy started playing video games.
*In spoken English, we almost always use when instead of on/upon to link the two events (see examples below!).
💡 Remember NOT to use al with gerunds (-ando/-iendo):
✔️ al llegar
❌ al llegando
🌪️ When to whip it out
Whenever you want to say what happened when a particular action occurred: