Verbs that carry you
The sixty verbs that do most of the work in spoken Spanish, in the shapes you actually say them.
Vocabulary lists stop being the bottleneck surprisingly early. You reach a point where you know the nouns for what you want and still cannot build the sentence, because the words that connect them are verbs and you only have them in the dictionary form.
This course is sixty of them in the shapes people actually say, grouped by what they do rather than by conjugation pattern. Movement first, since a walking day is mostly movement. Then the small number of verbs that hold every sentence together and that learners get wrong for longest. Then the helpers, which are the best value here: learn those and every infinitive you already know turns into a usable sentence. Then handling things, which is most of what a rucksack involves. It ends with the verbs for talking about the conversation itself, for saying you did not follow that and asking for it again, which is needed on day one and rarely taught early.
60 words across 5 topics, each with example sentences and a map showing how the words connect.
What is in it
- Going and coming – 12 words Twelve verbs of movement, which is most of what a walking day consists of.
- Being, having, and there is – 12 words after Going and coming The four verbs that hold every sentence together, and the ones learners get wrong longest.
- Wanting, being able, knowing – 12 words after Being, having, and there is The helper verbs. Learn these and every infinitive you know becomes a sentence.
- Handling things – 12 words after Wanting, being able, knowing Taking, bringing, finding and losing, which is most of what a rucksack involves.
- Being understood – 12 words after Wanting, being able, knowing The verbs for the conversation about the conversation, which you will need on day one.
The first topic of Camino basics is free and needs no account, so you can see how the practice works before this course costs you anything.
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