Spanish verb conjugators have been used for as long as languages have been taught. Question is how can traditional verb conjugation tables be improved upon to make the job of learning Spanish verb conjugation easier and quicker?
If you have ever been told that there are only 25 irregular verbs in the Spanish language, give or take the odd one or two, I’m sorry to tell you this, but you have been misled a little! There are, in fact, actually well over two thousand of them! Thankfully, many of these irregular verbs are quite obscure and will not be used too often, which means that learning them is not really that important for the vast majority of us. However, you will still definitely need to learn more than the twenty five or so verbs, so often quoted by misleading sources.
Of the irregular verbs that you definitely need to know, there are a number that it is absolutely necessary to have an extremely good understanding of. Unfortunately, many of these verbs are, as is so often the case, also the most irregular in the Spanish language and because of this many students find that learning them is an obstacle that they just cannot get past and as a result give up learning Spanish before they even get started, the obvious solution to this problem is to try and make learning verbs much easier and far more enjoyable…but how?
Conjugating Spanish Verbs
The age old method of learning difficult and demanding irregular verbs was to use a verb conjugation book that contained verb tables that were read repeatedly until the verb formations were etched into ones memory. I wonder how many of you can recall reciting verb conjugation, in unison, with the rest of your class over and over again when you were at school…I know I do, it was the most boring and tedious part of learning a language and something that almost put me off learning languages for life! Problem was, there were few alternatives until, that is, the computer age dawned!
The increase in ownership of home computers and easy internet access has meant that learning Spanish has become much more accessible and, dare I say it, easier. It is not too difficult nowadays to be able to find free learning materials and inexpensive downloadable courseware previously unobtainable for many people. However, it has not been until relatively recently that any real efforts were being spent by software designers on developing verb conjugation software that would make the difficult and challenging task of learning Spanish verbs any easier.
There have been quite a number of free verb conjugation programs and verb tables available online for a while now, but a lot of them are just basic digital versions of what was already available in print and they did little, if anything, to enhance either the education of, or the enjoyment level of the student other than offer them a certain novelty factor for a short time. The problem facing developers was always going to be how they could make an improvement without altering what needed to be learned basically, they had to re-invent the wheel.
Since developers could not, in any way, alter the information that needed to be passed on to the end user they would therefore have to look at ways of improving how this information was studied. Their objectives would be quite simple:
- Develop a program that would make the task of learning verb conjugation easier
- Make learning verbs much more enjoyable.
- And…as a result of the previous two points would therefore shorten the time taken to learn Spanish
A program that could match these three criteria would do nothing short of revolutionizing how people learn Spanish verbs. However, although the objectives may seem quite simple, and painfully obvious, achieving them will certainly not be quite so easy.
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