Error Log Review and Targeted Repair
Flashcards on diagnosing your Spanish irregular-verb errors by cause and building targeted repair drills.
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What five fields make a usable error-log entry?
Date, what I said, correct form, verb + tense, and cause tag.
Why is the 'cause tag' the most important field?
'Wrong verb form' is useless; naming the cause (e.g., regular ending on a strong-preterite stem) tells you exactly what to drill.
How can you reconstruct a log in 20 minutes with no notes?
Record 5 minutes of speech on three prompts (a past trip, what you'd do with a million euros, what you'd have done differently), transcribe, and mark every verb.
Overregularization
Applying regular patterns to irregulars: *andé* for anduve, *ponió* for puso, *volvido* for vuelto — the regular pattern fires faster.
Stem-blend / interference
Mixing two irregulars together, e.g., tener/estar forms bleeding into each other, or quiso/pudo confusion.
What is the 'si-clause trap'?
A mood-selection error: saying *si tendría dinero* instead of si tuviera dinero.
Person slippage
Right stem, wrong ending — e.g., *nosotros pudo*, or using fuiste where fue belongs.
Rare-form gaps
Forms you never built: vosotros, future subjunctive, -ra vs -se, pluperfect subjunctive.
Why isn't 're-reading the chart' a repair drill?
Charts create recognition, not production; drills must force you to produce the form.
What drill repairs a stem-blend error?
Contrast tables: conjugate the two confused verbs alternately (tuve/estuve, tuviste/estuviste), never separately.
What drill fixes mood-selection errors?
Sentence frames with a fixed trigger and varied verb: 'Si ____ tiempo, iría' → tuviera, pudiera, supiera, hubiera.
What does the 80/20 pattern of error logs reveal?
70–80% of errors sit in two or three cause buckets and involve only about 8–12 verbs — that's your repair list.
