Using The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs - Regular Verbs

Name: Using The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs - Regular Verbs
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How to use "The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs"

Created bySteven Getz

Last updated 11/2017

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What you'll learn

You'll understand a new way to look at the regular Spanish verb system as presented in "The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs".

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 45m total length

Overview: Layout & Contents6:42
Unveil how the smart book of Spanish verbs uses color coded patterns in one chart to show three spelling patterns, meanings, and stem changes from day one.
Introduction to the Master Chart of Regular Endings4:19
Master the master chart of regular Spanish endings by starting with the blue pattern and mastering four compound and five simple forms across present, past, and future tenses.
Row 1: The Simple Forms5:54
Explore how regular Spanish verbs use blue and green endings to form present, past, and future in indicative mood, and how endings express actions with thematic vowels a and i.
Row 1: The Compound Forms4:26
Master the top row of nine verb forms in regular Spanish verbs—five simple forms and four compound forms—covering present, past, future, and conditional tenses in the indicative mood.
Row 2: Making Verbs Plural4:23
Learn how to make regular Spanish verbs plural by adding an n to the endings, while memorizing singular and plural endings for present, past, futures, and compound forms.
Rows 1, 2 and 3: Three Ways to Say "You"3:51
Explore how rows 1 to 3 of the regular verb endings teach you forms in Spanish, with singular/plural patterns, blue/green endings, and the suffix n.
Rows 1, 2 and 3: Review of Pronunciation3:25
Review pronunciation of regular Spanish verb rows, focusing on stress placement and attaching mini endings to the root.
Row 4: Talking about Myself6:32
Explore how the smart book of spanish verbs uses red and black keywords with blue and green patterns to form regular endings, then talk about myself in row four.
Row 5: Talking about Myself in a Group6:19
Learn to talk about yourself in a group using regular verb endings. Add mos for we, with two starting points above and below the line across present and future forms.

Requirements

This "Smart Book of Spanish Verbs" is a great introduction for total novices, but also a fantastic review for intermediate students.
Having a basic understanding of Spanish pronunciation is helpful.

Description

Using colors and a unique layout, the Master Chart of Regular Endings from "The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs" makes the regular Spanish verb system easy to learn for English speakers.

Intermediate (and even advanced) students will see Spanish verb conjugations in a whole new light.

And total novices can start learning Spanish with an easy-to-follow overview, and will be surprised at how logical the verb system is, especially by focusing only on the regular forms first.

This method is especially unique because instead of learning 9 Spanish tenses spread out one at a time over months or years, you'll learn them all at once. And without starting with the infinitive.

You'll jump right in and quickly understand how to say what someone:

is doing / does
was doing
did
has done
had done
will do
will have done
would do
would have done

You'll start only with singular forms to talk about someone else (he/she), then progress to make verbs plural (they), manage different ways to say "you" (usted, ustedes, and tú), then finally talk about yourself alone (I) and in a group (we).

It sounds like a lot, but "The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs" really does make it easy to understand. Never have Spanish verbs made so much sense for English speakers!

Note that the first book does not cover the subjunctive mode, but you'll go so fast through the indicative mode and the conditional mode in a matter of weeks, you'll still be years ahead of any traditional approach.)

Who this course is for:

You should have or be thinking about getting a copy of "The Smart Book of Spanish Verbs".
Anyone who is learning Spanish, from novice to intermediate. (Advanced students can learn some new things, too!)