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[QUOTE="C clearly, post: 952207, member: 1589"] Well, for starters, you eliminate at least 1/6 of the verb endings you need to memorize. And those are the most complex endings. If you eliminate the "tu" form as well (which I don't recommend) you cut out another 1/6 and can still use Spanish perfectly correctly. If you want to get conversant and reasonably correct, there are many many grammatical details you must learn, so it is important to simplify the task. Eliminating "vosotros" is a good starter. Another area that I long ago relegated to secondary importance was the many ways to use the imperative. I attempt with one way, and hope to be understood. For both vosotros and the imperative, I have learned to recognize it and understand, but happily function in Spanish without using them. I agree with [USER=97400]@Esperanza[/USER] . I learned Spanish many many years ago in Latin America, in my 20s. The "vosotros" form was simply not used, so I put it out of my mind. I am still quite functional in Spanish, although I keep forgetting gender of nouns, and I have trouble formulating complex constructions on the run, such as "If they were planning to leave tomorrow, would they have already packed their bags?" The vosotros endings are lower than that on my priority list for study! Since we have the choice of using the formal usted or the informal "tu/vosotros" it is convenient (and safe) to use the formal. Maybe I sound like a old-fashioned visitor from the New World, but I am understood. I'm quite sure that the young person who has just addressed me as "tu" recognizes that I am a native English-speaker who is speaking New World Spanish. The differences in Spanish as spoken in the Americas versus Spanish seem not much (if at all) greater than the regional differences within either Spain or Latin America. If you can learn any of those versions, using reasonably standard language, you can transfer the skill. [/QUOTE]
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