Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses Review

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(More customer reviews)This book and the other Practice-Makes-Perfect workbook by Dorothy Richmond ("Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions") are the best Spanish books I've ever used. I just got back from 2 years in the Peace Corps in Honduras and I studied these books every day. They REALLY helped me learn more Spanish! In addition to the concise, easy-to-understand instruction sections, there's tons of exercises to do (with the correct answers in the back of the book) and as I did the exercises, I picked up all kinds of things that I'd been wondering how to say. I also liked the verb workbook a lot because it went way beyond the present tense, all the way to the subjunctive uses of "haber" and other more advanced things I really wanted to know. (This book is especially great if you already know some Spanish because you need some vocabulary to do the exercises, unless you don't mind looking up lots of words in the dictionary.) I highly recommend this book!

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A workbook to help you master Spanish tenses

Some things just take a lot of practice to learn, and verb tenses are one of them! Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses goes beyond the scope of many other books that deal with verbs. Typical verb books often present little more than charts of conjugations with perhaps some mechanical exercises that do little to help you really master when and why a particular verb tense should be used.

Spanish Verb Tenses fills this void by offering clear, concise, and at times, humorous explanations that pinpoint why a certain tense works in a given situation. The hundreds of varied exercises offer the added plus of allowing for lots of practice.

The book is divided into three main parts: Part I deals exclusively with the present tense-including the conjugation of regular verbs, formation of questions, essential differences between ser and estar, use of the personal a, reflexive verbs, and the present progressive mood.Part II covers the other six tenses of the indicative mood: preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, present perfect, and past perfect.Part III presents the imperative and the subjunctive, aswell as the future perfect, conditional perfect, and the passive voice.

Two appendices complete the text-one lists verb conjugations, and the other highlights certain verbs and their corresponding prepositions. There are also two bilingual glossaries that define vocabulary introduced in the exercises.

As a companion to a basic text, as a review workbook, or as a reference source, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses is an indispensable tool for all those who want to practice and perfect their use of Spanish verbs.

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Spanish Verbs 101 (Learn in Your Car) (Spanish Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great CD for those who want to memorize verb tenses. The CD is a little boring, as it is simply one woman who conjugates verbs, and then gives an english translation for each one. Each tense is done in order, then starting with the -ar verbs, then -er verbs then -ir verbs. It is the verbal equivelent of reading the 501 Spanish verbs book outloud! Note: the second person plural form, or the vos form, is not given. This form is mainly used in Spain.
Ex: Hablo - I speak
Hablas - You speak
Habla - He/She/You speak
Hablamos - We speak
Hablan - They speak
They go alphabetically from there. This covers the present, preterite, imperfect, future perfect, and present progressive (I think). There are no phrases, sentences nor context given, only cojugated verbs. This is much better than writing verbs over and over again, and good for learning some new verbs, but take it for what it is. A little maddening to listen to, but a good review if you need some intensive memorization. Better for the more advanced student, who is learning tenses past the present tense. The most annoying part of this CD is that after every conjugation, the english equivalent is given. For example:
"Hablo, I speak, Hablas, you speak" The half english in the forms is really annoying after awhile. The listener does not become immersed in the spanish experience.

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This pack contains 4 audio CDs and a 24-page listening guide. No sentence is complete without that one essential part: the Verb! This is an excellent beginner to intermediate student's verb guide that: demystifies verb conjugations; features an interactive audio format; organises verbs into patterns to simplify learning and recall; and, focuses on learning just the key verbs that must be used in everyday conversation. "Learn in Your Car Verbs 101" presents 101 most used verbs in all conjugations.

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601 Spanish Verbs (601 Verbs) (English and Spanish Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)excellent resource for people who are learning Spanish. Has descriptions of when to use each verb tense along with a translation. The book provides each of the 601 verbs in each of these forms to make sure that the language learner uses them correctly (in writing and speaking). As a Spanish teacher, i think that it is a straightfoward book that provides instant help for someone trying to improve their spanish skills.

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601 Spanish Verbs is the only Spanish language verb book a student of any level will ever need. With full conjugations of every verb in 16 tenses and moods, finding the right ending and conquering irregular verbs has never been so easy. This full-color book features a free CD-ROM with words and phrases for your iPod .What Actual Students Are Saying About 601 Spanish Verbs:
The text messaging and easy layout definitely gives this book an advantage-- I give it two thumbs up!- Gerren Crosson, Saint John's School, Houston, TX
I find the memory tips section to be extremely creative--it's helpful for trying to find little tricks to remember the verbs- Rebecca Lange, East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaWhy Teachers Are Excited About 601 Spanish Verbs:
For the student that is struggling with conjugation, this is a tremendous resource- Susan Quintyne, Herricks Middle School, Herricks, NY
Memory tips are the way students learn best and teachers use these techniques to help students memorize lists - Catalina Nacher, Edgemont High School, Scarsdale, NY
The text messaging section is a fun way to grab students' attention and makes this book special and unique- Rebecca Spring, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North CarolinaFeatures:
100 more verbs than other verb books!
Sleek, stylish design with a clear and easy-to-read layout
FREE CD-ROM with 300 of the most essential phrases for your iPod--both visually on screen and audio
Memory tips written by a memory expert for better studying
75 Must Know Spanish Verbs - Those most frequently used in speech, writing, and on tests
Spanish text message phrases for a fun learning experience
Verb endings are bolded to help students remember the changing part of the verb
Verb activity pages
Lists of popular test verbs, technology-related verbs, and spelling shortcuts
Alphabetical listing of all 601 Spanish verbs
601 Spanish Verbs Was Written By Experienced Teachers and Language Experts:
Lori Langer de Ramirez holds a Master's in Applied Linguistics and a Doctorate in Curriculum Teaching from Teacher's College, Columbia University. She has written and contributed to countless Spanish-language books, textbooks and articles, and promotes her methodology on her interactive website, miscositas.com.
Stephen Kehs has a B.A in Spanish and an M.A.T. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has taught Spanish domestically and led several student trips abroad.
Asela Laguna-Mourao has a B.A. in Latin American Studies and an M.A. Ed. from St. Perer's College. She has studied abroad in Salamanca, Spain and Costa Rica and currently teaches middle and high school Spanish.
Jim Sarris has a B.A. in Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in TESOL/Bilingual Ed. from Southern Connecticut State University. A proficient teacher of Spanish at all levels, Sarris also published several books on enhancing memory skills and Spanish language learning.
Sandy Williamson has a B.A. and M.A.T. from Duke University and has traveled extensively throughout the Hispanic world. She has presented at several conferences and served as an AP reader in 1996. She currently teaches high school Spanish.

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Spanish Verbs (Barron's Verbs) Review

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(More customer reviews)Please note that this is for the second edition of this book, copyright 2001. The previous edition says copyright 1990. I can't tell from the Amazon book page here if this is the first edition or second edition, but the cover design is slightly different from that displayed here from my copy, which I recently purchased, so I mention that just in case.
No matter what language you're learning (unless its Turkish, which has 100% regular verbs, or Japanese, which has only two), verbs are usually a major difficulty and stumbling block in learning a foreign language. This is the best compact verb book I've seen for Spanish. The pages VII to XL (7 to 40) in the introduction contain the best capsule grammar of verbs for Spanish I've seen, and is better than the ones I've seen in some of the bigger, beefier grammar books for quickly getting a good grasp of the basics as well as the more complex issues.
There are many features I like about this book, but one especially helpful thing the author does is to explain the formal grammatical names for the verb tenses, aspects, and moods and how they are formed in English, along with plenty of examples. For example, many of us have never thought of what the preterit or pluperfect is in English, but Kendris explains this along with many other useful things. Another nice feature is his discussion of how some verbs that express a mental state actually change meaning in the preterit. For example, the sentence, "Supe la verdad," means "I found out the truth." (Saber, which means to know, changes from "know" to "found" in the preterit). And the sentence "Pude hacerlo," means "I succeeded in doing it." (Poder, which means "to be able," means "succeeded" in the preterit).
Other features include extensive lists and coverage of irregular verbs, an index of 1000 verbs keyed to one of the models or patterns of the 300 main verbs in the text, an index of common irregular verbs identified by the infinitive, which allows you to look up which infinitive verb form it belongs to without knowing that initially, and an index of Spanish/English verbs. Each conjugation page contains at least a few examples at the bottom of the page of usages, such as in the Kendris's larger 501 Spanish Verbs book. Overall, an excellent little verb and grammar book for the student of Spanish, and considering the price is only 6 bucks and is over 300 pages long, a great value to boot.

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Approximately 300 most frequently used Spanish verbs are presented, one verb per page, arranged alphabetically, fully conjugated, and identified by the English infinitive form. Books in this series are smaller and shorter versions of Barron's 501 Verbs series. They make handy quick-reference sources for language students, teachers, and translators.

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501 Spanish Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs (W/CD)) Review

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(More customer reviews)Without a doubt, 501 Spanish Verbs is the most useful book available to a student of the Spanish language. It is not just for students, however. I have heard that even fluent professors have had to consult this book at one time or another because they were confused about how a word was conjugated. Verbs are the backbone of the Spanish language, and if you don't know how to conjugate them, people won't understand you. I take this book with me whenever I go on vacation to Spanish speaking countries, and it has proved infinitely useful during conversations where I didn't know how to say a verb. Spanish speakers are incredibly patient if you don't understand them and need to look something up, and this book is definitely the most helpful.
I should also add one thing: This book unfortunately does not distinguish between verbs commonly used in Spain, and other verbs used in Latin America that mean the same thing. An example is abrasar (to burn or light) and abrazar (to hug). I was telling a Colombian security guard that I was lighting fireworks, and he was confused. Turns out I was saying that I was hugging fireworks. Abrasar is only used in Spain. In Latin America the word for lighting or burning something is Encender. I hope this book helps you as much as it did for me.

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The World's Best Selling Verb Book-- and with good reason! Fluency in Spanish starts with knowledge of verbs--and Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs shows students and travelers exactly how to use the 501 most common and useful Spanish verbs in all 16 tenses and moods. Each verb is alphabetically listed in easy-to-follow chart form, one verb per page with its English translation. Important added features include-- Formation and usage of Spanish verb tenses and moods summarized as they relate to their English equivalents The 55 most essential Spanish verbs specially highlighted and supplemented with sample sentences and related words and expressions Progressive forms of Spanish verbs Formation of present and past participles Passive and active voice formations Principal parts of important Spanish verbs Sentences demonstrating Spanish verb usage in all tenses with English translations 26 sets of exercises in Spanish verb usage with answers explained Two-color type for ease of reference A-to-Z page edges marked in second color for quick reference to verbs Plus enlightening appendixes that cover-- Defective and impersonal verbs A guide to Spanish pronunciation Verbs used in weather expressions Verbs with prepositions An index of common irregular Spanish verb forms English-Spanish verb index List of more than 2,100 Spanish verbs! Every verb on the list is related to a model verb that's conjugated in the same way. Enclosed with each book is a brand-new CD-ROM filled with-- Sentence completion exercises Dialogue exercises Word Completion exercises Word Puzzles Matching Spanish and English phrases Unlike software enclosed with verb books from other publishers, Barron's CD-ROM concentrates exclusively on teaching verb usage that applies to reading, writing, and speaking in Spanish. The instructive and fun-to-do exercises and puzzles come with an audio option that demonstrates correct Spanish pronunciation. Barron's CD-ROM is also more adaptable than the others because you can download it on any PC or Mac. 501 Spanish Verbs plus CD-ROM--a great language learning program! It's an invaluable classroom supplement for students and teachers, a self-teaching guide for international travelers, and a handy reference volume for translators. Students quickly discover that learning Spanish becomes easier with this book/CD-ROM combination because it teaches verbs and verb usage systematically. In addition to the 501 verb tables, the authors have provided a wealth of additional features that will help students develop a truly comprehensive command of Spanish for speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension. There's a reason other publishers imitate 501 Spanish Verbs. After almost 50 years on the market, Barron's verb books are still the best! Choose the original!

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6,000+ Essential Spanish Words with CD-ROM (Essential Vocabulary) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is fantastic. It is organized in a way that you can quickly review a page or little section each day to really learn your vocabulary quickly and easily. I leave this book on my nightstand, and every night before I turn off the light, I go through a page, memorizing the whichever words are new to me (or not as familiar as they should be).
Also, this book comes with a CD that has flashcard software on it. For the low price of this book, the flashcard software alone is worth the price. You can ADD words to the computerized flashcards -- heck, you can even use the flashcards for subjects other than Spanish!
This book and its CD are worth their weight in gold.

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