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My experience of learning Spanish as a second language was that there are actually relatively few true irregularities (e.g. ser), and that most of what our tuto
by mdpye 7y ago
My experience of learning Spanish as a second language was that there are actually relatively few true irregularities (e.g. ser), and that most of what our tutors referred to as "irregular" were actually regular in their irregularity (e.g. vowel shifts like dormir). I even found after a bit of exposure, I could guess which verbs would take which vowel shifts fairly accurately.
And there are, what, ~16 verb tenses, ~8 of which are compound (ancillary verb+participle: easy to learn) and several are very rare in common discourse.
Personally,if I had to pick a universal language based on how easy it is to learn, I'd definitely pick Spanish!
- narag 7y agoOnly two are obsolete, the other 14 are commonly used. Oh, and there are two with a second optional form to compensate :) In English it's mostly done with mandatory pronouns and ancillary verbs (have, should, will) and only present tense is different for third person, everything else is just the same. Of course the pronuntiation and the phrasal verbs ruin the party. You must be very proficient already, so you don't realize how many irregular verbs there are. I won (ex aequo) a competition at school and it was very hard. Ser (to be) is specially pathological, stealing from ir (to go) half its conjugation, but hardly the only common irregular verb: have, go, say, walk, want, put, know...