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| LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4480 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: Czech* | Message 9 of 10 31 August 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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You can combine both memorization and assimilation, but one important thing is - always learn pronoun+verb as one word. Otherwise you will have big trouble remembering which conjugation belongs to what pronoun.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5234 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 10 of 10 31 August 2012 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
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I never use flash cards and seldom use word lists. I prefer to learn new words through exposure. However, when
it comes to verb conjugations in Romance languages and declensions in Latin and German, I’ve found that learning through exposure and assimilation is far from enough for me. I successfully learnt Spanish conjugations through a combination of exposure and rote learning. It was over twenty years ago, but they are still glued to my brain. Don’t try to learn everything at once. Start with the present tense indicative. Then move on to the other tenses. Review once in a while. I’d recommend getting a book with the verbs fully conjugated. Bascherelle (La conjugaison, Les verbes or L’art de conjuguer, depending on the edition) is really nice with verb endings and irregularities highlighted. This makes it easy to recognise the patterns. From what I’ve seen from the “look inside” feature on Amazon, those from PONS have a similar format. I have Baron’s 501 Latin Verbs. It’s very clunky compared to Bescherelle. One thing is to learn the conjugations; another thing is to put together correct sentences. Then you need to learn to pick the right tense (present/past/future), aspect (perfective/imperfective), mood (indicative/subjunctive/conditional), word order etc. In my experience, that’s a lot more difficult than learning the verb endings. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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