1001 Spanish Verbs, Discover the Real Number of Verbs You Need to Learn!

1001 Spanish verbs used to be a software program that you could download to your laptop quite cheaply and it provided the full conjugation for each of those verbs in the 12 most used tenses used in the Spanish language. However, it is hard to find this program for the laptop nowadays and it now seems to be available for downloads to mobile phones only. Although, I might be wrong!

However, the question you should be asking is whether or not you actually require a download, or book, that offers the full conjugation for that number of verbs?

The honest answer to the question has to be ‘no’ and I shall explain why. As you are no doubt aware, there are many thousands of regular verbs in Spanish, and these verbs are split into 3 specific groups. These 3 groups are comprised of verbs that end in, -ar, -er or -ir.

Regular verbs are so-called because they follow the exact same Spanish verb conjugation formation as other verbs that use the same ending, this would therefore mean that you would only really require a full list of regular verbs and a lone full conjugation sheet for each verb group so that you could find the necessary conjugation.

The only problem with Spanish, as with many other languages, are the high numbers of irregular Spanish verbs …over 2000 to put a figure on it! This, in itself, is enough to panic a Spanish language student especially as mastering the conjugations of irregular Spanish verbs is thought of as the most difficult task when learning Spanish.

Two thousand seems an awfully large number of verbs with irregularities to master and if you had to do so with each one it would be, without a doubt, but when you consider first of all, that a lot of these verbs will be very rarely used, if at all, and secondly that these 2000 plus verbs can be broken down further into 66, or so, different variations of irregular patterns and the task appears much more doable!

So to recap…3 regular patterns of conjugation and 66 irregular conjugation patterns, together that is 69 varying conjugation patterns if my calculation is correct which is a great deal less than the 1001 Spanish verbs in the title. This being the situation, it goes without thinking that all that is therefore needed are the conjugation sheets for these sixty-nine verbs and full lists that contain the regular -ar,-er and -ir verbs and each irregular verb for every irregularity.

However, now that you have been enlightened as to the number of verb conjugation patterns in Spanish the biggest issue that most, if not all, students of Spanish face is that of actually memorizing them. Having all the verb sheets you will ever require is fantastic but unless you know an affective way of learning them you will still struggle. For years the only method of learning verbs was to recite and recite some more until you had memorized them…very tedious and not very exciting, never mind time consuming!

Well this has all changed with a revolutionary new software program that not only focuses the mind on specific problem areas but does so whilst maintaining the students attention levels and the results are fast too with many users reporting excellent results succeeding where they were failing previously. This revolutionary verb training software is called verbarrator and it demotes verb books and other verb conjugators to being only needed as reference tools!

The advice I would offer would be, especially If you are having trouble mastering Spanish verb conjugation, to look up the verbarrator software program when you get the opportunity.