Time for some past tense conjugations.

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I'm Timothy, and this is Learncraft Spanish.

Let's start putting the verb ser in the past, so that instead of just saying is, am, and are, you can say things like

they were and I was. In this episode, we're really going to lean into the memory palace method,

because when it comes to memorizing dozens of conjugations for just one verb, especially a complex,

irregular verb like ser, a memory palace

almost universally makes a night and day difference for our students. But even if you're not

into the memory palace method, we've found that for all students, there's a three-step method

for learning verb conjugations and being able to use them

fluently. The first step is to make sure that you've flawlessly memorized all of the individual

conjugations that you want to use, and you can individually retrieve them without getting them mixed up.

Step two is to practice retrieving those conjugations within randomized sentence

contexts, like the quizzes we put at the end of these episodes. And then step three is to get so

fast at retrieving conjugations in sentence contexts that it becomes second nature. So you're more

than welcome to skip today's Memory Palace story if you

don't think it's for you, but if you do, make sure that you have memorized all of the present

and imperfect forms of ser, and then use today's quiz to start practicing them within sentence

contexts in alignment with step two. For those of you who are at least

curious about using a verb memory palace, let's go back to the Ser Carnival House and talk about

why we've chosen such a wacky world for this verb. Serr is an essential concept in Spanish,

and it has about 50 conjugations to memorize eventually.

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