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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 14 05 September 2014 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
That's true, many are irregular or semiirregular. But there are "rules" among the irregularities and many common verbs are irregular the same way as other common verbs so it is nearly a new regularity for practical use. Combination of learning the whole conjugations and lots of input should help you deal with any irregularities you are likely to encounter. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mitcht Newbie Australia Joined 3742 days ago 32 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* | Message 10 of 14 06 September 2014 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for all the advice I do think it's a case of just needing to put more time specifically into this area. For
instance, I don't really struggle with the present tense but once I start having to think through which tense and indicative/subjunctive that it all slows down or, if i don't slow speech, can get muddled. Hopefully the FSI, some one on one lessons and working through practice makes perfect will help take care of it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7206 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 11 of 14 06 September 2014 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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With FSI Basic, I was getting some sincere compliments for my Spanish from the native Columbian teachers
in an informal class at work by the time I'd worked through unit 9 (of 55). My confidence increased as I got through unit 15. When I was studying units in the 20s, I was regularly mingling with monolingual Spanish speakers. I was mostly listening and speaking a little. I also got several sincere compliments on my speaking, pronunciation, and grammatical correctness. Now, of course, my vocabulary was still very limited, and my grammatical knowledge, particularly of the subjunctive was incomplete to non-existant, but the native Spanish speakers did have a genuine warmth in our interactions. My understanding was usually very incomplete. I became very familiar with curse words, which were common in the groups I met with. I also had a couple of super cool experiences with fellows who were carefully and considerately explaining various topics to me such as, family life, their personal success philosophy, and their personal history. When I was in FSI units in the 30s, I was having occasional one on one conversations with speakers who were also learning English. Some of these were super cool experiences where they were trying out their English on me, and I was speaking only Spanish to them. Both of us being in a somewhat rare opportunity to have a real, meaningful, conversation. These conversations lasted about 10-15 minutes and were basically fluent. That is, we weren't hunting for words. These were experiences where both of our "affective filters" (nervousness) had disappeared and we were having "best I've ever spoken English/Spanish" events. Getting into units in the 40s and 50s continued to increase my comfort level and also bring the occasional complement like, "I've never met an English speaker who uses the subjunctive correctly, but you do", or "wow, you speak great, where did you learn to speak Spanish?" If you look in my logbooks, you can read a lot more about my experience and chronicles while learning to speak Spanish. Edited by luke on 06 September 2014 at 1:14pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 14 26 July 2015 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for the links just what I was looking for to help me with my Spanish :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3413 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 14 26 July 2015 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the idea now I know how to do my flashcards for my verbs :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 14 of 14 27 July 2015 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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You are welcome.
There is another way as well. I am now totally excited by verb conjugation courses on memrise by edthird. They is extremely helpful, well done, complete, without mistakes. A true jewel! Three courses, verbs divided traditionally by endings -ar, -er, -ir, all the tenses you normally need, approxiamtely 70 model verbs total is my estimate. The format is different from my old one but I am copying it for my own French conjugation deck: front: yo CONOCER presente back: conozco 1 person has voted this message useful |
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