Current Events > I'm learning Spanish from Duolingo but having trouble with present tense.

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Stuff like vivimos, vivir, aprendo, etc. Or how would I know to use aprende over aprendo in a sentence?

If the present tense is what youre struggling with then youre in for some bad news.

Iirc aprendo is used to refer yourself, like other with -o.

like someone asked "compendre?", you answer with compendro.

Ricemills posted...

Iirc aprendo is used to refer yourself, like other with -o.

I'm down to 1 heart so next lesson I'll keep this in mind and see if that helps.

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Yes! I love using Duolingo. I wish their definitions were more thought out.

You had best get your shit together TC or that owl is going end you.

Enclave posted...

You had best get your shit together TC or that owl is going end you.

Nah he likes me. He keeps giving me free super duolingo for a few days. I'm taking a Spanish course for my major in September so I may end up buying a yearly sub.

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I'm decent. I only do 1-3 lessons each day so maybe 10-15 minutes max. Last nights lesson was brutal. I had to spend 600 coins to give myself an extra 5 hearts so I wouldn't fail the lesson.

In the Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages and probably many others, verbs conjugate based on the person or thing doing the action, and they don't use helping verbs in the present tense (i.e., you don't say, "I am going", you just say, "I go").

With Spanish there are a couple of standard conjugation schemes for verbs, but I haven't studied it in so long I couldn't tell you what they are.

With the example of "vivir", vivir is the infinitive ("to live"). So generally you use the infinitive with modal verbs ("I liketo live", "She wantsto live").

From there you just need to study some conjugation charts really. Wiktionary is good for providing these https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vivir#Conjugation_2.

Vivo = for I ("I live" = "yo vivo")
Vives = you (singular/informal) live.
Vive = she/he/it lives
Vivimos = we live
Vivs = you (plural and/or formal) live
viven = they live

Also I highly recommend checking out Language Transfer on YT - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeA5t3dWTWvvwf5fw0Nl7mVk0OUjP1Ln2 for the complete Spanish course, they have a few others. It's all about just listening to a dialogue, pausing when questions are asked, and taking a couple of minutes to think about possible answers (there are often many possible answers). No need to write or read anything, it's just about thinking through things.

Enclave posted...

You had best get your shit together TC or that owl is going end you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Ncawy2LJc&pp=ygUec3VycmVhbCBlbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50IGR1b2xpbmdv

Just hard memorization on that, I think.