Monday, January 22, 2007

Conjugal Conjugation with www.Spaleon.com

Sure, the Sexy Spanish Club offers its members a spicy way to practice using Spanish, but you do need to know some basics before getting started.

Memorizing verb conjugations is a necessary but dreaded part of learning Spanish, but thanks to a site my husband and I discovered recently, even that part of the process can be a lot more fun.

Now, Tom and I are engaging in a bit of conjugal conjugation, thanks to www.Spaleon.com . On this free site, you can select the verbs you want to practice and then do drills online--with answers popping up in a second. It's better than flashcards! You can keep working on a particular group of verbs or a certain form and play as long as you like.

So, each day, Tom and I do a little Spaleon (that's SPanish LEarning ONline) and challenge each other to learn the ones we hate--or keep forgetting (the ones we hate ARE the ones we keep forgetting!) Think of it as playful competition between partners--we are coming together to conjugate. ;-)

After all, conjugate and conjugal are linked.

Dictionary.com offers the following definition:
con·ju·gate –verb (used with object)
1. Grammar.
a. to inflect (a verb).
b. to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”
2. to join together, esp. in marriage.

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Find a partner and engage in some conjugal conjugation of your own!

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