The spread sheet idea is great. Of course, I had to take a night course a couple of years ago to learn what excel sheets were. I have to put things down in some type of organized way. But as I said , even with doing that , just having a hard time getting it to stick into my brain. I told a friend my brain was full of 68 years of useless information so there was not room for the stuff I wanted to learn LOL Haven't given up yet though. That is great that you took a course to learn Excel. I learned Spanish in HS many years ago, so I did not have to learn all of the tenses just from Duolingo.
When I did the Spanish tree on Duolingo it seemed like there was not as much information in the Tips and Notes as there could be.
Even when I was in school it was hard to keep track of the differences between imperfect, preterite and subjunctive and all the rest. I suggest that you get a High School textbook - you could easily find a HS Spanish textbook in a used book store or online. That will help to explain the tricky things and give you a reference to look at. Most of the verbs are pretty regular, but there are a bunch of important verbs tener, ver, etc that you use a lot that are not regular. My children all speak decent Spanish but sold their textbooks.
They never thought that their momma might need them! First, you should know what the verb tenses are and what they mean. Here's a link with an explanation. Secondly, for conjugations there are 14 conjugations, however in spoken Spanish I usually only hear about 5 used often. So I'd learn the present, preterite, continuous, future and the first compound tense forget the name. If you get saucy, you can tackle more afterwards but I'd learn those for sure. Third, make sure you know what infinitives or infinitivos are.
They are verbs that end in -ar, -er, -ir in both Spanish and Portuguese but they have different tense endings that you'll just have to memorize them. Duo is great for a quick foray into languages but it falls short on explanations. So you'll find yourself doing searching for some concepts. You are still young, and it is good to utilize the brain to keep it functioning. I am at level 20 and I am 67 years. I have seen so many younger women getting Alzeimers nowadays , I spelled it wrong, but you understand.
Our brain can take much more than we give it. Keep trying to exercise your brain. It is worth it. I found that learning them with the English equivalent helped me a lot.
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It doesn't matter what they're called if you can use them translate them into English; and from English. Try the Michel Thomas audio course - he goes through the verb conjugations in a way that sticks. It might be super basic for you at first, but I found it's really helpful in the long run.
For me at 58 keeping a notebook and writing words and sentences worked for me Good luck it's definitely not easy and I can relate to everything you're feeling for sure You have more memory than you think. I learned French when I was young if only I can remember. The problem with or advantage of English is that many verb tenses are not different from the present.
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I am still in the early stages of duolingo Portuguese and Spanish and working with present tense. I imagine that the rules for imperfect, subjunctive, imperative will be pretty straightforward since most verbs end in 'er', 'ir', and 'ar'. I'm a bit removed from HS myself, and had some trouble remembering old grammar terms, so I bought English Grammar for Students of Spanish: It's a really great book for reminding you about those English grammar terms, while explaining how they are used in Spanish.
Simple explanation are great, but sometimes it can be really helpful to remember the English terms and rules. I just linked the most recent edition - you can buy an older edition, cheaper, and the info is basically the same.
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