Ella Verbs

A lovely article in The College View! Thrilled as always to receive such fantastic support from our university.

Ella Verbs - the language learning app with DCU origins – The College View Features editor Róisín Cullen, chats to the creators of a growing language-learning app. The couple reflects on their own time in DCU.

Delighted to be recognised and supported by our university - thanks DCU & DCU Alumni 🙂💥

We are delighted to announce that our Alumni Spotlight: Business Owner feature for November is; Ella Verbs!

Two DCU Business School graduates, Jane French and Brian Hemeryck have created the brilliant app, Ella Verbs, which helps students from all over the world to learn Spanish verbs. You can download it on iOs or Android 📱

Meet Brian! 👋🏼

He’s one half of Ella Verbs, our trusty developer and the reason why Ella Verbs was founded. He, like many people, was struggling with conjugations when he started learning Spanish. He wanted a way to be able to study Spanish tenses and practice them too, in the same place! Having a little experience with apps, the side project named “Spanish app” began!

Brian is a fitness fanatic and an avid learner, so you’ll either find him outside or coding all night long! 👨‍💻 He works a full time job on top of Ella Verbs, but always seems to find time to release new updates, and fix bugs 🐜!!

📸 Guanajuato city, Mexico, 2017

Llamarse👈🏼 is probably the first reflexive verb you learned in Spanish! And you probably didn’t even realize it. 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
The first step to learning reflexives is to memorize the reflexive pronouns “me, te, se, nos, os, se”.
🤓Tip: have you ever been introduced to someone and then forgotten their name 2 minutes later? Well, you’ll probably need to ask them their name again, and here’s how you do it in Spanish using the imperfect past tense.
🇪🇸🇲🇽: Perdóname, ¿cómo te llamabas?
🇮🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸: I’m sorry, what was your name?
Soon we’ll be launching lessons in the app on reflexive verbs. Keep an eye out! 👁