I also think Spanish verbs are also easier to get used to than the agglutination found in Japanese, where an important change in the meaning of the sentence could be hidden in a single vowel buried in the middle of the word (話さなくなかった and 話せなくなかった is just one possible example). In Spanish, I think context is more likely to fill in what was meant if you mishear a vowel, since Spanish has more redundancies than Japanese does.

I’m also learning Italian — at a very casual pace, something more for fun than serious study — and I’m experimenting with the idea of never even writing out conjugation tables, instead memorizing them through Anki. I have no idea yet how it’s going to turn out, but so far it doesn’t seem so bad. (Italian is even less regular than Spanish, by the way, from everything I’ve heard.)

- Kef

I don’t know… Categorizing English verbs? Was? Went? Came? Flew? Left? Ran?
Doesn’t seem like there’s a rule to English irregular verbs. The only one I can think of is: bought, sought, thought…

Yeah, I learned the rules for te-form but eventually you jut get it by ear. I’m still going by the Korean rules. But I’m slowly just getting it.

KoreanClass101 makes it easy.
Take off 다.
Just add 아 if the last syllable in the verb stem has (아 or 오) otherwise add 어 and they have a conjugation chart for 어 and what it changes to depending on the vowel it combines with.
And for 하다 verbs, take off 다, add 여.
I just don’t get why 하 + 여 = 해.

So only three rules, really, once you get the conjugation chart down.

르… well the only verb I encountered that had it was 모르다 and they showed how it changes to 몰라 I’m pretty sure.

I am not learning Korea but maybe one day I will get to that. The next language on my list is Italian.

by the way I have a blog that teaches Japanese too (Japanese999.com) so any input is appreciated.