Language Learning Strategies

Last week you were asked to think about your language skills and to do a practice asking you to identify certain parts of speech and verb tenses in Spanish. This may have been hard for you, especially if you aren't used to hearing these terms.

If you have trouble with terms such as nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, etc, I highly recommend looking at the Spanish Grammar in Context site from the Spanish in Texas Project. If you hover over a part of speech in the top menu, you can see the different topics for it you can choose from. Clicking on one will open up a page of explanation with many examples.

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If you have trouble knowing what verb tense is which, I recommend creating a verb tense chart for reference. Below is a chart you can fill-in for yourself to help you organize the tenses in your mind. I have attached a blank chart and also one completed for the verbĀ vivirĀ as an example. Feel free to print out my example, but don't stop there! I recommend you create your own, either using a single verb as I have or you could use different verbs throughout - maybe choose verbs that tend to give you trouble. DO INCLUDE THE ENGLISH translations. This is what will help you link the Spanish tense with what you want to say.