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Learning material as a chunk

Sometimes it just doesn’t work to dissect grammar forms through heavy-duty analysis.  So, learners of Spanish have reported successfully learning these forms as memorized chunks.  The one caveat here is that you need to make some modifications of the chunks depending on the context.

Check out two examples of this strategy by clicking on the links below.

Learning material as a chunk (Contrary-to-fact statements using the conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive)

Learning material as a chunk and making analogies (Lo + adjective)

 

 

 

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