Every Spanish verb has 89 forms that a student of Spanish has to learn. The best way to become expert at using the many forms of a verb in Spanish is to drill yourself on them, over and over and over. Verbos gives you the tool to do just that.

Verbos Basic is the "little brother" of Verbos. It does not have Verbos' testing capability and you can create and save only one verb list, where Verbos allows you an unlimited number of lists. Verbos basic gives you the ability to drill yourself on Spanish verb conjugations. For many people, that's the only way we'll learn those verb forms.

Verbos Basic allows you quickly drill yourself on Spanish verbs. You tell Verbos Basic what tense or tenses you'd like to practice; Verbos Basic choses a verb randomly and displays the infinitive, the tense and the pronoun for a person/number (for example, third-person singular, or first-person plural). You can then say the answer, either to yourself or aloud. Touch the screen and the correct answer appears. Touch the screen again and a new verb/tense/pronoun appears.

- Verbos Basic has every verb form for over 500 verbs, including those in Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs. If you want certain verbs, email me and I'll add them to the database. "Basic" means that Verbos Basic doesn't have all the functionality of the full version, Verbos, but many users have told me they don't need or use features beyond what's contained in Verbos Basic. Verbos Basic isn't limited in the number of verbs; it uses the same database as Verbos.

- Select any tense or any combination of tenses. You can select one tense, all 15 tenses, or any number in between.

- Select any type of verb: regular verbs, irregular verbs, verbs that change spelling to maintain a sound, verbs that change their stem, or reflexive verbs. Again, you can choose any verb type or any combination of verb types.

- Select any verb ending or combination. Spanish verbs fall into three categories: those with infinitives that end in -ar, those that end in -er, and those that end in -ir. You can select which category, or which categories, you want to focus on.

- Create and save a verb list of those verbs you want to concentrate on. When you choose to use the verb list, only the verbs from that list will be used for quizzing.

- See a verb's complete conjugation.

- See a sample conjugation, in English, showing how each tense is used.

Your Verbtrainer includes a small Help file. If you'd like to see a more complete "How-To" document, go to www.verbtrainers.com and click on the User Manual link in the left column.