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Another component of the Rocket Spanish download is the mega games. They can be downloaded from the learning lounge as an exe file. The exe file installs the three games on your PC or Mac. Simply clicking the icon brings up the games and allows you to play.

Games are good for learning things that might be considered slightly boring or tedious. Generally learning grammar conjugations is a pretty tedious affair so there is a game called megaverb that can help.

It consists of answering 25 questions on verb conjugation. You can choose to answer questions on present, past, future or all three tenses. The question gives you the infinitive version of the verb, the meaning in English and the person that you must conjugate (first person singular, third person plural etc.)

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You type in the answer and the games tells you if it is correct or otherwise. You have a few attempts to get it right.

This will teach you verb conjugation and some writing skills to a limited extent. The key to learning verb conjugation is to see recognize regular and irregular verbs. Most verbs will fit into a group of regular verbs which are identified by the way they end. Memorizing the way the ending works for the general group can allow you to conjugate hundreds of verbs successfully.

Irregular verbs just have to be memorized as a one off because they are generally pretty unique in their endings.

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Megavocab is the game to improve your vocabulary skills. It is similar to the way Rosetta Stone works. It shows you a picture and 4 words in Spanish (can show the English word as an option too). You have to guess which word corresponds to the image.

This method of learning vocabulary is a good approach. It is fairly painless way to learn (dare I say fun) but the words are only basic level words (conversational).

Again, Megavocab will ask you 25 questions and mark your answers. There are plenty of categories of words to choose from which will keep you going.

Some of the pictures don’t really communicate what the word should be at times which can be a bit frustrating. In this instance it makes sense to turn the show english word option on to clear up any confusion.

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Megaaudio works on the same principle as Megavocab, except that the word is spoken. You have to match the word to one of 4 or 6 pictures in the question. 20 to 25 questions are asked and you are given a mark. Again there are plenty of categories to practice. Most are just single words but in the later sections there are short sentences.

This game will help your listening comprehension and even your accent if you repeat the words aloud after you hear them.

I find the games are a good warm up exercise if you are planning to do a bit of Spanish. They can get you into the mood so to speak and are easy to use.

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