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Spanish is easy except for those pesky conjugations. But, do you know how hard it is to fluidly conjugate into 50 verb forms in spoken speech? Plus, people gl
by materielle 3y ago
Spanish is easy except for those pesky conjugations.
But, do you know how hard it is to fluidly conjugate into 50 verb forms in spoken speech?
Plus, people gloss over this fact, but Spanish is highly inflected. After you choose 1 out of 50 conjugation for your form, you have to choose a gender for your noun, and inflect your adjectives by number and gender. Conceptually, it’s not difficult. But if you open your mouth and starting try to talk this way you’ll mess up for about the first 5 years.
I can do it. But of course a language which I know seems easy to me!
But point taken that most languages have conjugations + all that other stuff, too.
- prmoustache 3y agoYes but conjugations is not something you have to worry about, especially at the beginning. In a language with articles, you can do mistakes in conjugation, yet if you use the article people will understand what/who is the subject and still understand. When you learn a language, focus on present tense. By using words like before/after/yesterday/tomorrow you can keep using present tense and be understood by a native speaker and you are likely to learn quickly the past and present tense by listening to their answers. People usually understand that you are learning and don't mind you using present tense.
- anthk 3y agoThis. Also, you don't need to use compound conjugations at first. This might be wrong for the Spanish Iberian dialects the same way it's a bit wrong too in English, but if you don't say "I've just eat" instead of "I ate" everyone will understand you fine.