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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5494 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 15 21 April 2010 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've finished working through my workbook and the Spanish study website I've been using, so I have a fair understanding of the grammar. My grammar rules, irregular verbs in the umpteen billion tenses, and so on, are hanging by a thread however. I need some way to practice writing sentences and getting these rules ingrained into me. Any suggestions for good techniques I can use, study materials, etc. would be awesome. Edited by Silvance5 on 21 April 2010 at 9:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2 of 15 22 April 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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I suggest you check out the Spanish Practice Makes Perfect series. They cover a lot of different areas, including grammar, tenses, pronouns, writing, etc. They are workbooks and are relatively inexpensive. I never write in them but use a separate notebook so that I can reuse them to review at a future time.
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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6472 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 3 of 15 22 April 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Irregular Spanish verbs (and conjugation rules in general) will easily get ingrained into your skull with regular use of the language. I did put a small amount of effort into learning them when I practiced verb conjugation (which I did the old-fashioned way: writing conjugation tables over and over!), but after that I put no effort into it and I've had no problems. It helps that most irregular verbs still follow very simple and common patterns, like the poder -> puedo pattern, etc.
Do I know every single irregular verb? No. But I know all the ones that I need to know in my typical conversations and such, and learning new ones won't be any trouble at all. Edited by furrykef on 22 April 2010 at 2:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6846 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 4 of 15 23 April 2010 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I second the practice makes perfect series. FSI is also responsible for drilling them into my memory.
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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5494 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 5 of 15 23 April 2010 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Odd, shortly after I posted this, I went to Books-a-Million and bought two workbooks. One on verb tenses, one on grammar in general. When I came back, I had recommendations for the series of workbooks that I bought, Practice Makes Perfect.
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| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6846 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 6 of 15 23 April 2010 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
You made a good choice then. Especially with the verb tenses book, which I think is the best of the series. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 7 of 15 24 April 2010 at 3:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that the Verb Tenses was the best of the series. The least useful/helpful for me was the Vocabulary.
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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5923 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 8 of 15 24 April 2010 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd move on to native materials to consolidate your grammar - to make it real. I don't think more grammar is the answer. You'll end up knowing Spanish 'in theory' only.
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