#Favorite Verb Conjugation Practice

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chrome yoke
snow rain
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We don't recommend drilling or "practicing" conjugations. They just come naturally the more you immerse. The most you need to do is maybe look over a chart to prime yourself before jumping into immersion for the day.

rocky cradle
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There are resources out there, which you can probably find with some googling, but they don't line up with the Refold method. However, they can be helpful if you have a pressing need for early output ( you're taking a Japanese class, you are visiting or living in Japan). But the refold method assumes you want to acquire the language naturally rather than studying it.

rocky cradle
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My favorite verb conjugation practice is called listening. 🙂

chrome yoke
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Lol, thanks for the advice guys(not sarcastic)!

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I just thought specific drilling would help with training a particular skill.

snow rain
# chrome yoke I just thought specific drilling would help with training a particular skill.

There is no need to drill anything if you're immersing. TUp If you haven't yet, I highly recommend reading the Refold Roadmap so that you're on the same page and our recommendations will make more sense to you. This method requires you to take everything you know about traditional language learning and throw it away.
https://refold.la/simplified/

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tardy knot
# chrome yoke What's your favorite tool to practice verb conjugation? I'm looking for somethin...

I haven't needed to practice verb conjugation for output, it just feels 100% natural for me. But there is a related skill that I found useful enough to exercise. If you see 滅(ほろ)んじまう in manga and want to use traditional dictionaries, you'd have to look at ほろぶ、ほろむ as the possible dictionary forms. (しぬ is the only ぬ verb in the modern language.) かった can be かう、かつ、かる。しりたい is しる or maybe しりる - it's not, but you can't tell until you look in the dictionary.

These days you can skip the skill because many dictionaries are smart enough to do it for you. (If you have Yomibaba set up or you're copy-pasting into jpdb.io try 滅んじまう - it's moderately difficult since the 〜||ちまう|| form isn't entirely standard dialect.

The way I practiced this was to find examples of v1 and v5k, v5t, v5s verbs etc. (those are JMDICT symbols for the conjugation patterns), keeping paper notes, and solving the reverse-conjugation problem like it was a math thing. And... now that I say that maybe just use JPDB and yomibaba and ichi.moe like all the cool kids are doing these days. Dang I feel old.