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Improve your child’s memory by learning how to use mnemonics.

Here is one I’ve been using for a long time in Spanish class. It involves the verbs in the preterite that have changes in the él/ella/ud and the ellos/ellas/uds. forms.

I don’t include a lot of the verbs because in reality students don’t need that many verbs when they are learning. They’ll get them later when they live in a Spanish speaking country.

Anyway, here are the verbs: Repetir, Servir, Vestirse, Pedir, Dormir.

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Improve your child/student’s memory with mnemonics. A great Spanish mnemonic here that my class created. It’s for one of the biggest groups of irregular verbs in the preterite.

I call them the stems because they all have them (I am quite ingenious at times!)

Poder, poner, querer, venir, tener, saber, hacer, conducir, estar, decir, traer.

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