There are many reasons to improve your Spanish. And, what better place to start than verbs – the action words of every language?
Verbs are the only word needed to make a sentence. Just think about this for a moment. How often do you tell someone to “Look” or “Stop!” or “Move”?
It may not just be the love of grammar. You may also need to learn Spanish verb conjugation for school or university. Possibly, you were inspired when you holidayed in any of the 21(!) Spanish speaking countries such as Spain or Mexico.
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As for me, I wanted to be able to speak Spanish from a very young age. I don’t know why. I just knew that I would want to speak Spanish one day. There were many failed attempts and my main hurdle was the complex verb conjugation. I looked for more fun ways than mere repetition, but I didn’t find anything that would cover my need to learn all of the tenses and not just the present tense and one of the past tenses. So we decided to build our own game!
Fast forward a year or two and the game is now ready for testing. Our database contains over 3,600 verbs which rotate as the “Verb of the Day”; for those who want to practice every day without getting bored. If you think long term, that’s nearly 10 years worth of a new verb every day without repetition! And yes, they cover all the 83 irregular conjugations we are aware of.
Does 3,600 verbs sound like too much? Fear not! We have prioritized the most important verbs by how often they are used in every day speech in the “Learn New Verb” section. This way, you’ll stay focused on what you need the most. It also feeds into the “Revise Verbs” section, which helps you stay on track with your revisions. It uses our version of the spaced repetition learning technique, to ensure revision is beneficial – without overdoing it of course.
Our demo version will be free and will contain the most important verbs and tenses so you can get a feel for the game. The full version will contain all of the 3,600 verbs, all of the 10 tenses and all of the persons you’ll ever come across.
If you want to be one of our early access testers, please sign up with the form below and let us know what you think of it. Your feedback is very welcome!
Fun fact: did you know that the Spanish language features more than 12,790 verbs?
UPDATE: The game is live and you can download it here:
After a steep learning curve, and a lot of effort, we’re close to publishing our first game. It’s now available for open testing. The first 100 people will be eligible to take part in testing the game and provide early access feedback.
We think the game plays well with no known bugs. In addition to being able to customize the dimensions of the field and the number of mines, it now includes visual feedback: a fireworks display when winning and an explosion when losing.
Try it for yourself today by downloading the game for free at Mine Sweeper in the Google Play Store, and let us know what you think.
