Conjuga

What it does

A box of index cards on a desk. Each card gives you a Spanish verb and a person (tú, ella, nosotros). Say the verb for that person out loud, then tap the card. It turns over, the answer is where the verb was, and your phone’s Spanish voice says it (“tú hablaste”). Then you say how it went, and the card goes on the pile for bien or otra vez (again).

• 125 verbs, the most spoken ones, starting with the three regular models (hablar, comer, vivir) and then ser, estar, tener and the rest.
• Eleven tenses that open one at a time, in the order a textbook teaches them. The next one opens once you know most of the cards for the thirty most common verbs in the one before. You can open one early.
• The back of the card says why. “Stem change e → ie”, “strong preterite: tuv-”, “c → qu before e, to keep the k sound”. Then a short sentence that uses the form.
• The cards you miss come back sooner. A minute, then ten, then a day, then longer each time you get it right (that’s spaced repetition). A card counts as known once you get it right a day later.
• Which Spanish: Latin America (with vos) or Spain (with vosotros), and each region’s names for the tenses.
• The whole table of any verb in any tense, every row tappable to hear it.