You watch as he tries to explain what he’s doing, but all you hear is a loud “sssssss” sound. But the only result is an even louder hissing sound. Meanwhile, the curly-haired kid thinks he can help fix things by directing the air from his hovercraft down at the holes. You still emphasize the part of the word that sounds like “air”, but the word ends with what sounds kind of like “ran” as in “ran away”: eran. They leave some panda-shaped holes in the wall, as relics of the fact that they ran away. They don’t even bother to go through the door they just dash through the netted wall to the right. ![]() The pandas, meanwhile, aren’t having it - they run away as fast as they can. First of all, you simply start panicking you shout “Air! Ah! Air! Ah!” So your word is era, spelled E-R-A. Our conjugations are going to be based on everyone’s reactions to this upward blasting of air. Almost immediately, you’ve poked holes in the floor, and air is starting to escape, blowing hard up at you and everyone here. Well, the snake’s suspicions are confirmed: It turns out this bouncy house is not built to handle the soy sauce bottles strapped to your feet. It’s listening closely at the door, because it suspects that something is wrong. And then the snake, to your left, is just outside the bouncy house door to the left. The pandas, to your right, are jumping up and down and bouncing all over the place. Let’s make sure everyone is in their proper place: In front of you is the kid with curly hair he’s not bouncing because he’s still on the hovercraft, which is making a loud hissing sound. So imagine that you and your tall and short friends have entered the bouncy house and have started jumping. The past tense is going to be inside the bouncy house itself. We’ve already covered the present tense, represented by the area where we were all waiting in line for the bouncy house. Inside this big, crazy funhouse, there are different areas that represent the different tenses we can use when using the verb Ser. ![]() So let’s go back to the indoor carnival, but we’re going to move to a slightly different place within it. Today what we’re going to do is learn the most common past tense forms of this word. They’re all part of the same family, because they’re all in the Ser carnival house, where the snake who runs the place judges people based on how tall they are. ![]() However, we’re training your brain to think of them as all tied together as one concept, by putting them in one vividly memorable place. And they all sound very different from each other, as you experienced with just the present-tense conjugations - soy, eres, son, es, and somos don’t really resemble each other at all. Ser is an essential concept in Spanish, and it has about 50 conjugations to memorize eventually. 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 2.įor 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. And then Step 3 is to get so fast at retrieving conjugations in sentence contexts that it becomes second nature. Step 2 is to practice retrieving those conjugations within randomized sentence contexts, like the quizzes we put at the end of these episodes. 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. 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.īut 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. ![]() 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”. I’m Timothy and this is LearnCraft Spanish. Intro: Join us on a rigorous, step-by-step journey to fluency.
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