{"id":648,"date":"2013-03-26T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-08-16T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:54:06","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-be-a-baby-about-your-foreign-verbs-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/don%e2%80%99t-be-a-baby-about-your-foreign-verbs-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be a Baby about Your Foreign Verbs (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unexpected Conjugation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My little girl speaks Spanish and it is fascinating to hear her make the same mistakes I made when I was first learning the language. However, there are also some instinctive errors which native speaking babies and toddlers make which you probably won\u2019t make. For example, every Spanish speaking kid I have met automatically says abrido instead of abierto and sabo instead of s\u00e9 when they are first learning the tongue. By paying attention to these unexpected and irregular conjugations you should avoid saying this kind of thing pretty easily. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/birmingham\/\">As they learn Spanish Birmingham residents<\/a> should pick up both the regular and irregular forms of the verb as well as they can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lack of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you like to listen to any baby speaking any language anywhere in the world there will be certain verbs which they say over and over again. Of course, you learn your native tongue rapidly and before long you then have access to a decent variety of synonyms without even really being aware of it. Some foreign language students stay stuck in this initial baby-like phase though and never fully progress onto the sort of varied and interesting use of verbs which sets apart someone who knows the tongue well. If they want to make the most of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/russian\/dublin\/\">their Russian lessons Dublin students need<\/a> to be able to say things in more than one way, and knowing a lot of verbs is one of the best ways of doing this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"kid\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yucatanliving.com\/article-photos\/interviews\/habla\/Danny-Kids-Class.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected Conjugation My little girl speaks Spanish and it is fascinating to hear her make the same mistakes I made when I was first learning the language. 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