Spanish Present Tense

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Does that mean I should give up? It’s tempting. Before long he will be able to translate for me and in most cases the people I work and live with are much better at speaking English than I am at speaking Spanish. But what will happen when he’s a teenager talking to his friends?  There is something particularly disturbing about not having access to what your own child is saying. As a person who likes to be independent and above all who likes to communicate it’s frustrating when everything you say is limited to the banal and the basic. So, I  must persevere.  It seems that most of Ábaco’s clients agree. We did a survey on our newsletter recently with interesting results. We asked whether our clients thought that learning Spanish should be compulsory or not. Two thirds of those responding (67%) said ‘yes’ it should be compulsory and a third (33%) said ‘no’ it should not; a point of view that doesn’t always seem to be backed up by practice.  Even those who are fluent in Spanish and tax matters can find dealing with the authorities something of a challenge. And yet it is very important to understand what you should and shouldn’t be paying and be sure that the forms you submit reflect your true circumstances. For this reason Ábaco are offering to help explain your resident tax return for free.

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Have you ever found it impossible to express yourself in Spanish simply because you didn’t know how to conjugate a Spanish verb? You knew the vocabulary words that you needed to express yourself in Spanish. But you just couldn’t remember how to conjugate the verb that you were using in Spanish. And without correctly conjugating the Spanish verb that you wanted to use — the person who you were talking to had no idea what you were trying to say. And can you blame that person for not understanding you?

Imagine being on the phone and unable to conjugate the Spanish verb “llegar” or “to arrive.” If you don’t properly conjugate the verb how does the listener know if you want to say that you have arrived, will arrive, going to arrive — or that you are arriving. Matter of fact, if you cannot properly conjugate verbs in Spanish the listener won’t even understand who is “to arrive” — you, he, she, it, we or they. If you have been learning Spanish for any length of time – or even if you just recently started learning Spanish – then what I am about to tell you will come as no surprise . . . .

How to conjugate Spanish verbs is the hardest part of learning Spanish. In English, it is so easy to conjugate verbs.For example, “I eat,” “you eat,” “we eat,” “she eats,” and “they eat.”

With just two different forms of the word “eat” – just by using “eat” or “eats” – in English, I am able to express that anyone or everyone eats in the present tense.

In Spanish to say the same phrases you’d have to use six different forms of the Spanish verb “comer”:

Learning how to conjugate just one Spanish verb, like “comer,” is enough to drive someone crazy… In order to learn how to conjugate verbs in Spanish, not only do you have to learn a whole new set of vocabulary words but you also have to learn a whole new set of grammar rules — that’s if you want to learn how to conjugate Spanish verbs correctly.

And if you started learning-Spanish as an adult – like I did – then you know that this process of learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs could take a life time.

For years, the only way we – that is, native English speakers – could learn how to master conjugating Spanish verbs was through drudgery, memorization, verb conjugation charts and other boring techniques.

For years, the only way we – that is, native English speakers – could learn how to master conjugating Spanish verbs was through drudgery, memorization, verb conjugation charts and other boring techniques.

Spanish verb conjugation: Present tense "ar" verbs:

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Spanish verb conjugation: Present tense "ar" verbs:

Spanish verb conjugation: Present tense "ar" verbs:

Spanish verb conjugation: Present tense "ar" verbs:

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