Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Third Edition

Complete Spanish Grammar is another book in the Practice Makes Perfect series which happens to be a real bargain for the price. - The book has 26 different chapters - The book also includes over 2,500 exercises to help you learn Spanish - There’s even a bonus online section that includes audio and text Like the title of the books suggests, Complete Spanish Grammar is very complete. You will learn topics that are easy to understand such as conjugating verbs in the present tense and the preterit and imperfect tenses (past tenses). And you will also learn some of the most complicated topics of Spanish grammar such as reflexive verbs and the Spanish subjunctive mood. You’ll also learn almost every other Spanish grammar topic imaginable. For example: - Irregular verbs - Stem changing verbs - Ser and estar - Determining when to use the preterit tense vs. the imperfect tense - The future and the conditional - The progressive tenses - The present perfect and the past perfect - The future perfect and the conditional perfect - The passive voice and passive constructions - Not just the present subjunctive but also the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive - Commands - Nouns and articles - Adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions - And a lot more One features that I found helpful about this book is that the author includes verb charts that you can quickly use as a reference. But the two things that I like most about this book are: One, the author gives plenty of advice on how to avoid many of the common mistakes that native English speakers make when speaking Spanish. For example, the author points out that in Spanish the English auxiliary verb “do” is not translated in Spanish and that Spanish does not require an auxiliary verb in order to ask a question. She then gives several examples, including: Compramos la casa? – Do we buy the house? Abro la puerta? – Shall I open the door? Two, at the end of every chapter there is a “vocabulary section” – This is where the author defines all the news words that were taught in that chapter. I found this to be a huge time saver. Since all of the new Spanish words were defined in the “vocabulary section” at the end of each chapter, I didn’t have to look up all the news words in a Spanish dictionary. In closing, I’ll leave you with the 3 learning-Spanish resources which are currently my favorites. (My list of favorites changes from time to time so you may want to check my list periodically. Updated 08-2018): 1. Learn Beginner Spanish: Lessons 1 to 5 from Both Original Version & New Version of Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Including Two Bonus Lessons from New Millennium Spanish . What stands out most about this program is the style of teaching used. The teaching style is very reciprocal or mutually dependent on the instructor and the student. This allows the student to not only listen but also to participate. But what appeals to me the most is that there are two bonus audio lessons included from their New Millennium Beginner Spanish program which teaches Spanish vocabulary for social media, the Web, modern technology, life styles for this millennium. Such as, eating organic food, living abroad and working as a digital nomad, and working out at a cross-fit or MMA gym. Learn Beginner Spanish also works wonders for developing an authentic sounding accent. 2. 501 Spanish Verbs, 8th edition (501 Verb Series) . If you think you can accomplish fluency in Spanish as an adult without mastering conjugating Spanish verbs, you are only fooling yourself. This book is an absolute essential resource for learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs. It will show you how to conjugate every Spanish verb tense imaginable. The version I have also includes a bonus CD which teaches both regular verbs and irregular verbs. 3. Learn Basic Spanish with Fast Lane Spanish: Get in the Learning Spanish Fast Lane This is from the same publisher that created Learn Beginner Spanish. What I love about this audio program besides the fact that they use the same teaching style found in Learn Beginner Spanish which includes native Spanish-speaking actors to help you get an authentic accent, this program does a great job of teaching Spanish pronouns and prepositions in a natural way. Most programs seem to skip over this topic and only focus on conjugating Spanish verbs. I am also impressed with Learn Basic Spanish's bonus package which allows you to attend a free, live, interactive monthly Webinar taught by a Spanish teacher from Colombia. I will also add that this program is very affordable. If you have any questions about Practice Makes Perfect’s Complete Spanish Grammar, please post your questions below and I will do my best to answer your questions.

This is not for complete beginners as it will ask you to translate things you may not know the translation of. However, there is a simple fix to this, use the free site, SpanishDictionary.com. In a way, it will get you more immersed in the language and teach you more vocab. The grammar rules are easy enough for those who, say, haven't learned Spanish since high school. It does cover the basics of Spanish, such as the present tense, but it increases in difficulty as it goes on, of course. A thing to note: this is based on Spanish from Spain, so some word and sentence structure translations may be different from what you may expect. There is an answer key in the back to make sure you've answered the plentiful amounts of exercises correctly.

I'm learning Spanish from Rosetta Stone, but felt like I needed more exercises on my Grammar, so I bought this one. I think it's a great product, and supplements my course just right. If you're Learning Spanish, this is definitely shouldn't be your only book. Make sure you supplement it with reading, listening, and vocabulary for better results. If you're a beginner, you might be struggling a little bit with vocabulary in this book, but there is a dictionary in the end of the book, and I think it's great that from time to time you have to refer to it, because there are so many things to learn! :)

For those of us who took foreign languages before the advent of the internet and digital homework, we'd used workbooks. I hated the things, most of us did I bet. Still, there was value to them - as traditional and boring as they might be. Here, you've got what is essentially a well put-together guide to Spanish grammar. It explains the things you don't get explained on typical computer programs and apps like Rosetta Stone and DuoLingo. For those of us who want to understand the technical aspects of the language - and for anyone who really wants to learn the language - a book like this is helpful. If you are half-heartedly messing with an app every few days then this is likely something you'd flip through once and never look at again

I've only just begun doing activities, and I can already tell that this book will give a great overview of Spanish grammar. That being said, I strongly recommend taking a couple of courses on Spanish language before using this book on your own. I'm a fairly fluent non-native speaker looking for grammar review since I haven't taken classes for a while. Because of this, I already know most of the vocab in the book and don't need to spend forever translating everything. This makes the experience far less stressful and makes it easier to focus on just the grammar review (or learning in another person's case). Other reviews mentioned that there aren't answers to every activity. I've only hit one so far (since I just started) and the reason it doesn't have answers is because it is asking for a personal response that the book can't hope to have an answer to. This goes back to wanting to have a general background on Spanish before it will be very useful. All in all, I'd say it's a great book.

This book is amazing! I highly recommend it for beginners. The book contains clear and concise explanations and it laid out very well (starting with the more common tenses to them ore difficult ones). The additional audio book which accompanies it is a hidden treasure which I would encourage you to download and use as well. I like this series so much I've purchased the Conversation edition too!

I ordered this book, along with the Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses workbook. While I really like the Verb Tenses workbook, this one is not as well written. So far, in the first few exercises, they provide a general vocabulary list, and a verb list. Then they give you exercises in translation and reading comprehension. Unlike the verb tenses book, in the Complete Spanish Grammar, the exercises ask you to translate verbs and vocabulary they don't even bother putting in the list. And most of the words on the list they don't use in the exercises. It's really weird and annoying. The format is good, but they should really use better word lists to correspond with the exercises. I'm glad I bought the other book so that I have a comparison. Hopefully this won't be an issue throughout the entire book.

Very well done with good explanations and lots of practice exercises. The answers are in the back so you can catch errors immediately and not risk learning something wrong. I also like the paragraphs for you to translate into Spanish. This helps you to put it all together and review things you have already covered, but may have forgotten.

Very good book to use once you get comfortable with basic verb usage. Has much information in it about that other side of a language which is grammatical structure and all those associated things like prepositions, pronouns and so on. It is my basic go to book as it really does cover all the bases.

It's definitely not for beginners who try to self study but you have already intermediate level. This book is must recommendable. I liked how it has things explained very well. Best book so far

Very good book, clear and concise, the verb book from this series I can also recommend. If you want to learn this great language get this book.

This book was great to teach some Japanese people. They feel enchanted.

Uso com a minha professora particular do iTalk. Simplesmente ótimo.