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Today’s verb of the day: enviudar
Translation: to be widowed; to become widowed
“Enviudar” is a straight forward verb to conjugate and follows the standard conjugation pattern.
Want to conjugate correctly every time? 🙂
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Today’s verb of the day: leer
Translation: to read
“Leer” is beautifully irregular and exhibits 3 exceptions to the standard conjugation pattern:
1. The participle is “leído” therefore, composite times conjugate as follows
Example: perfect past / pretérito perfecto
yo he leído
tú has leído
él, ella, usted ha leído
nosotros, nosotras hemos leído
vosotros, vosotras habéis leído
ellos, ellas, ustedes han leído
2. Simple past tenses conjugate with a “y” in the 3rd person
yo leí
tú leíste
él, ella, usted leyó
nosotros, nosotras leímos
vosotros, vosotras leísteis
ellos, ellas, ustedes leyeron
3. Based on the 3rd person simple past, the imperfect subjunctive is “leyera”
leyera o leyese
leyeras o leyeses
leyera o leyese
leyéramos o leyésemos
leyerais o leyeseis
leyeran o leyesen
leyeras o leyeses
Want to conjugate correctly every time? 🙂
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Today’s verb of the day: teatralizar
Translation: to dramatise
“Teatralizar” is a straight forward verb to conjugate: follow the standard pattern and in those tenses, where the “-ar” ending changes to “-e” simply adapt the “z” and change it to a “c” to keep the sound the same.
Example:
yo teatralizo (present tense)
yo teatrilicé (simple past tense)
Want to conjugate correctly every time? 🙂
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In my humble opinion, we are still at the beginning of the new year. According to statistics though, many people would have given up their good New Year’s resolutions by now.
Don’t be a statistic!
My New Year’s resolution was to conjugate reflexive verbs with ease. If you, like me, have always wanted to learn Spanish, then follow your dream. Only 10 minutes a day will help you improve and maintain your level of Spanish, and our Spanish Verb Conjugation game makes this easy. It provides a fun way to practice your Spanish verbs. Given how important conjugation is in the Spanish language, what better place to start and continue.
Every other day, I pick a random reflexive verb to practice on. I smiled when I saw yesterday’s verb of the day. It was “apresurarse” which means “to hurry up”, or more colloquially “to get a move on”.
I wasn’t as fast as I’d hoped, and I also got a conjugation wrong on occasion. However, I managed to complete every round first time – even for the imperative! What a great start for 2023.
Our Spanish Verb Conjugation game is a great help towards your daily dose of Spanish. Install it today and give your resolution a boost.
Two days ago, the word of the day was defecar (to defecate). It is something we all do. However, it is not something we usually talk about in polite conversation – and it’s unlikely to come up in Spanish class!
Years ago, when I was attending daily Spanish lessons, I had a bladder infection and needed to go to the toilet every half hour. My teacher was a true hero! He noticed that something was up, so he decided to introduce us to some new vocabulary and colloquial phrases. He also explained the level (also known as age related appropriateness) of various expressions related to human biological functions. Most importantly, he included the correct phrases to use for the dreaded doctor’s visit in a foreign country.
Some of the students giggled at the time. I, on the other hand, was taking notes as if my life depended on it. In conversation after class, another student mentioned that it would have really helped them a few months earlier when they had the same issue.
That is why it is important that, sometimes, words like these are brought out and we practice them. Rather than recoiling from or giggling at a verb that may be used less often, cherish it instead. It may be important one day.
Last week, I mentioned how getting back into practising Spanish Verb Conjugation daily was harder than initially anticipated. However, it was worth it, and I can already notice my improvements. Even the imperative, with which I struggled, has become easier and I now make fewer mistakes.
Over the Christmas break, I will start to re-enforce the habit by learning one more verb a day than I would do during a standard working week. After all, I want to finish this year and start next year on a high note.
How about you? Are you practising your Spanish Verb Conjugation daily?
If you’re not already using our Spanish Verb Conjugation game, then I would highly recommend it. It provides a fun, easy way to learn and revise all the most important Spanish tenses. And, once you have built the habit of daily practice, you can keep going for over 10 years with a new verb every single day – covering all the conjugation patterns and exceptions.
If you know someone else who is learning Spanish, why not gift them a Spanish Verb Conjugation app? Help them learn more easily and more efficiently, while having fun. Remember, our game works offline so you can also use it on the go to your Christmas destination.
Why not learn together? Using the “Progress” section, you can check, compare and challenge each other to complete your daily learning, revision and verb of the day goals. Learning together will provide additional motivation to practice and improve every day.
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Wishing all our fans, family and friends a fabulous festive season and a fantastic 2023.
After taking a short break from practising my verbs every day, I am pleased to say I am back to my daily practice. I even caught up on the verbs that were ready for review and waiting to be looked at for a few weeks. Big round of applause!!!
What did I learn from this though?
First of all, I was surprised by how many days I’d missed! The progress report page gives me a clear indication of when I was practising the verb of the day, learning a new verb or revising previously learned verbs. I thought I’d only missed a few days, possibly two weeks, whilst moving house – BUT – to my surprise, I didn’t have any gold stars for nearly 6 weeks! Shame on me!
Second, catching up with revising previously learned verbs is harder than I thought. The main challenge was knowing that I had to do more than my usual workload to get on top of it. So, rather than my usual workload, I tried to double it. After a few days, I noticed that I was making progress, and, before long, I was back on track.
Third, whilst revising previously learned verbs, I didn’t learn new verbs in order to manage my workload. I am now back to learning verbs again, and I am happy about it. It feels as if, at long last, I am making actual progress.
I can’t wait for the holidays to turn my daily practice into a habit and keep improving my Spanish Verb Conjugation with perpetual practice!
One of our users, let’s call her Jane, has provided us with feedback that she is only looking at the end of the verb to guess the correct conjugation.
OK. Let’s see what we can learn from this comment.
Jane is right in that this is one way of revising your verbs every day. It is a quick and dirty way to “get through it” too. However, it is not a great way of learning, never mind retaining what was learnt.
Sometimes, I find my mind wondering, and, similar to Jane, I only check the verb endings. However, I then find that, if I later test myself, I can’t conjugate the verbs correctly. Why is that? It is because I simply let the words pass in front of my eyes without actually taking anything in. I did not actually learn anything.
A better way of using our Spanish Verb Conjugation learning game is to learn with intention. Some aspects of intentional learning in the Spanish Verb Conjugation context are:
That’s very much achievable.
Intentional learning is being used in the corporate setting e.g. McKinsey reports career advantages, as well as by the World Economic Forum. If it’s good enough for them, it sure is good enough for me.
Which type of learning will you choose from now on?
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What a great word of the day: chapurrear. It means to speak a language badly, or more precisely, to speak a language with great difficulty and making mistakes whilst at it.
We have all been there at least once. As a baby, you try your best to pick up how to form sounds that you hear around you. Over the years, you learn how to form words. Finally, you learn to put them into the right order to create sentences. Voilá! You have learned your first language. Well done!
Then comes school and (often) the need to learn a second language. This time round, you have the help of qualified teachers who start with vocabulary and grammar. If you are lucky, they throw in some pronunciation. The process of learning the second language seems a tedious task of endless repetition and rote learning. If you felt the same way, you are definitely right.
Why is it so much harder to learn a language at school?
It is harder because it deals with chunks of grammar which are not necessarily intuitive. You often don’t think about grammar when speaking your own language. Another reason why it feels harder, is timing. It takes most people around 15 to 20 years of speaking a language “naturally” all day, every single day before they are on top of their game.
When you learn a foreign language at school, depending on where you grow up, you may have 5 years of 2 hours a week for 25 weeks a year. That’s only 250 hours of classroom training! If you’re lucky you may get 9 years, or, if, after school, you go to university to study a foreign language, you may get as many as 15 years of 5 hours a week. That’s not even 2,000 hours of classroom training.
According to the US Foreign Service Institute, 600 to 750 hours is the minimum needed to learn a language that is similar to English (including Spanish!) Think about it: 750 hours is not even 9 weeks if you are learning all the time (like children do in their homes) for 12 hours a day. That’s the big difference! Learning a foreign language is hard because we try do it in only a few hours a week.
That is also the reason why tools like the Spanish Verb Conjugation game help to solidify your knowledge quickly and effectively. By spending only 15 to 20 minutes a day practising (around 2 hours a week) you’ll quickly learn many important and interesting Spanish verbs and how to conjugate them correctly. You can then also spend time reading a Spanish book or watching Spanish news or television to supplement your online learning.
Personally, I use the Spanish Verb Conjugation game to revise and learn whilst waiting for something e.g. waiting in the queue at the supermarket, waiting for the train to arrive, or simply waiting for that one friend who’s always late (if you don’t have one, could it be you?). This way, I can make the most of my time AND learn Spanish at the same time. It has already helped me to make a lot fewer mistakes, sound more fluent, and feel more comfortable.
So, what will you do today to stop “speaking Spanish badly”?
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