How to Learn Spanish Verb Conjugation Fast

In today's video I'm going to share an activity you can use to help with conjugating verbs in Spanish In today's video I'm going to give you an activity you can use to help with conjugating verbs in Spanish And then I'll show you what you should do to learn conjugations more quickly But with all that said I don't want you to focus on conjugations every single day Yes they are an important part of mastering the language but first I believe it's very important that every day you have a wide amount of input in Spanish Listening to a lot of Spanish reading Spanish before you fully commit to this conjugation But for most students you already have a foundation in Spanish you've heard it a lot and you might even be able to understand something And now you're starting to speak and want to make sure you're doing it correctly using all the verbs the right way That's precisely when the conjugation training I'm about to show you will come into play Now this is how we learn verb conjugation in school and this method is extremely ineffective Okay so in my first year of Spanish maybe after we'd learned the alphabet and all that We start learning the present tense conjugations and we spend most of our first year of Spanish I think just on present tense conjugations Now a year has passed and in the second year we learn the past tense conjugation We might not even learn the future tense conjugation until the third year So for many students when they're learning at school it isn't until three years later that they finally learn how to say I will come here or I will talk to you We don’t even learn how to say that until three years of Spanish And it makes it nearly impossible to communicate properly with people when it takes us years to master the verb conjugations So once again here's how it works: we typically spend the entire semester or several months in a tense state So let's call this current state the present tense We're going to take the tense present where we spend all our time learning how to express things in the present tense for each individual verb So each day we learn how to conjugate this verb how to use this verb—the AR verb the ER verb—in the present tense And we practiced it for a year Then next year we return and now we're in the tense preterite the imperfect tense speaking in the past Then we return next year and we're learning about the tense future and how to talk about things in the future And then during that year we could tackle the subjunctive and explore all these other moods that exist in Spanish And it has taken us years to fully understand how to conjugate verbs correctly so we can speak Spanish properly So what we're going to do is turn this process around in your mind and do the exact opposite of what you've likely been taught in school And I promise you this will help you learn conjugation much much faster Well instead of spending years in tension what we'll do is spend a week or two on a verb Let's take an AR verb for example let's use the verb to dance Well to dance This is a regular AR verb So what we're going to do is take a regular AR verb a regular ER verb and a regular IR verb Now that you have a basic understanding of conjugation you can do all three by choosing one verb from each But if you're new to conjugation pick a verb So let's choose an AR verb Let's start with the verb bailar Let's start with a regular AR verb or a regular ER verb or a regular IR verb Now for the verb bailar We have I dance Dance You dance He she or you dance We dance I dance Dance And this is your way You don't need If you're not going to Spain you don't even need to pay attention to your way They only use it in Spain They don't use it in Latin America or Caribbean Spanish But I don't want to let it go And then we have dancing I dance They dance The boy dances The girls dance You dance in your own way They dance Now we know how to say it I dance You all dance They dance He she or you (formal) dances in the form of you all We dance You dance And then they dance or you dance in your own way But your form is the one they'll hear from you in Latin America or the Caribbean Now we know how to say it I dance And we examine the rules for this AR verb What happens with this verb For example let's take the form for I I dance To dance we remove the AR and simply add an O for the first-person form You dance We remove the AR and simply add an AS in its place So you do it through all of these Once again this is a regular AR verb When I say regular verb it means all regular conjugations will follow the same pattern I'll get to that in a moment But for now let's examine the following tense for this very verb And now let's look at how to say "to dance" or the verb "I dance" in the present tense instead of the past So I danced The preterite In the tense past I danced You danced He she you (formal) danced We danced They you all danced So we have these basic rules and all AR verbs will follow the same patterns you see here Again we can do this for the next tense The imperfect tense And we can do the same for the future tense Now once we've learned all these rules for this single AR verb You'll know how to use each regular AR verb So now if you know how to say I danced or I was dancing You'll know how to say "I spoke " "I spoke " or "I was speaking " because the verb hablar follows exactly the same rules as bailar So when teaching the tense AR verbs go through all the conjugations for each tense at once Now you can use any regular AR verb If you practice this daily it will take you a week to truly master these tenses If you spend just 30 minutes a day learning these in a week or two you'll know all the AR verb tenses Now let's say you take another week or two for the AR And another week or two for the AR Now in three to six weeks you'll have mastered all the conjugations for regular verbs And for regular verbs I don't know the exact number but if we go by the basic 80-20 rule So I'd say that 80% of Spanish verbs are regular And about 20% maybe even less are irregular So you now know that 80% of verbs you can conjugate them correctly in any tense In a few weeks Now without mentioning it yes you'll need to spend some time learning a few of these irregular verbs But once you have a general understanding of how all the conjugation tenses work learning them won't be so difficult So once again we're going to turn things around in your mind Instead of spending months learning a tense We'll spend a month learning all the tenses at once And when you do it that way Focusing remember focus one word at a time Okay Focus one word at a time Now double-check that you're learning an irregular AR verb an irregular ER verb and an irregular IR verb Because when you master these it will help you learn all the other conjugations of regular verbs since they are all regular verbs Because the same exact rules still apply And this will help you learn conjugations much much faster If you found this video 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