The "Conjugate it!" is a simulating application which helps French language learners to memorize quickly and effectively the conjugations of the 100 most commonly used French verbs.
Working with the "Conjugate it!" for 2 hours a day, already in one week you’ll be able to recall easily the conjugations of these verbs (covering 80% of verbs used in everyday life) in 5 main tenses.
The Conjugate it! is based on 4 major learning principles which help to build long-lasting memories of a large number of words:
- to focus on the essential,
- to think models,
- to use active memory,
- to repeat regularly
The method of the “Conjugate it!” is based on 2 widely known facts:
- Frequently used verbs are the first to be learnt;
- It is easier to learn the conjugations of similar verbs as they conjugate in similar ways.
The “Conjugate it!” combines the 100 most commonly used verbs ranked in an appropriate order of frequency (top 10, top 20, top 30, etc.) and ranged in similar conjugation models. According to La Rousse, every French verb relates to one of 101 conjugation models, however not all the models are equally frequently used. Statistics proves that 100 most commonly used verbs correspond to only 55 of the 101 conjugation models. Actually, having memorized these 100 verbs and 55 models, one can cover 80% of verbs in the spoken language.