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Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses :: 0844273341
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This convenient worktext gives students a unique approach to learning, remembering, and reviewing how to use Spanish verbs correctly. The book provides a systematic presentation and review of Spanish verb forms and explains when and why a certain verb tense should be used. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses includes an impressive number of exercises and open-ended questions, numerous conjugation charts, a list of verbs and their prepositions, and Spanish-English and English-Spanish vocabulary lists. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
Concerning my background, I am a self-described Spanish-holic that has bought and collected nearly every learning-Spanish product sold on Amazon. I am also the founder of Learning Spanish Like Crazy and the author of several articles on How to Learn Spanish. And now for my review of Practice Makes Perfect -Spanish Verb Tenses . . .
Part I of Practice Makes Perfect (Spanish Verb Tenses) covers beginner or basic conjugation of Spanish Verb Tenses. Including but not limited to regular verbs, irregular verbs, important verbs such as ser, estar, hay, tener, saber, conocer, gustar, stem-changing verbs, reflexive verbs, and the present progressive.
Part II of Spanish Verb Tenses covers intermediate level verb conjugation.For example, the past (preterite and imperfect), future tense, conditional, present perfect tense, and past perfect tense.
And Part III covers more advanced areas of verb conjugation such as the imperative, present subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, future perfect, conditional perfect, present perfect subjunctive, pluperfect subjunctive, and the passive voice.
And the Appendix of Spanish Verb Tenses consists of Verb Conjugation Charts.
I strongly recommend this book. And I recommend it for many of the same reasons that I also recommend the other Book in the Practice Makes Perfect series: Spanish Pronouns and prepositions)
Unlike many Spanish grammar books that merely consist of "lectures" on the topic of Spanish verb tenses and Spanish verb conjugation charts, these books consist of numerous exercises to reinforce what you're learning and to improve your verb conjugation skills. In the two books, you will find countless exercises, including fill-in-the-blank exercises, verdadero o falso (true or false) exercises, translation exercises of sentences and even translation exercises of entire paragraphs.
Besides the countless exercises, the feature that I like most about this book is that it covers a wide variety of vocabulary words. I found that the book used many vocabulary words that I rarely, if ever, see in other Spanish Grammar books, but often hear Latin American use. For example, the word "podrido" which means rotten as in a rotten egg.
If you are studying European Spanish you will also find this book quite useful because it also covers the familiar plural vosotros form which is used in Spain.
If you seriously wish to master conjugating Spanish verbs, then I strongly recommend this book for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced student, regardless of whether the student is learning to speak Latin American Spanish or European Spanish.
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Author: Guest
If you are serious about learning Spanish and attaining fluency, you have to master verbs, and this book is a must buy. This book in simple terms explains the formation for all the verb tenses and moods, with the general rules and the exceptions. There are numerous examples and practice sentences and paragraphs. It may be helpful to repeat the written exercises once or more. Once you are truly familiar with all the material presented, you will not be confused about when to use the indicative, subjuntive, or imperative moods or how to form the various present, past, or future tenses in Spanish.
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Author: Guest
A really great way to practice!!! The only thing better would be a teacher to check it, as I believe that there's probably more than one way to arrange the words, but at least you know that what is there is a good example. Otherwise, a really great way to really reinforce!
I was a bit overwhelmed in one chapter that suddenly introduced about 40 new verbs all at once, but once I got through that I was up and running again. And fortunatley, the verbs were continued to be used in the next sections. The glossary in the back is pretty good too.
I liked this so much that I bought the other two books in the series and will be doing them next.
My only pet peeve is a bit of leaning toward castillian over latino, but it's just a few words here and there, so I'm able to substitute for my goals.
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Author: Guest
I am trying to learn Spanish at home right now. I have a native speaker that comes to my house every week, but he is not always able to help me get the practice that I need in the boring work of conjugating verbs (we generally just try to have a conversation). This book has helped me tremendously! Simple exercises to help reinforce what I've learned about the different conjugations and their uses. Highly recommended.
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Author: Guest
I love Dorothy M. Devney's Spanish Verb Tenses. Especially the abundant exercises which provide the practice everyone needs to really learn Spanish well.
I am currently using this fine guide along with Behind the Wheel Spanish 8 CDs and text. Virturally every major tense in Spanish Verb Tenses is represented in Behind the Wheel Spanish both in the book and in the CDs. These tenses include but are not limited to
present, present progressive, imperfect, preterite, present perfect and present progressive. Both approaches are providing me with the additional practice that I need to speak, read, write and truly master Spanish.
I recommend Spanish Verb Tenses along with Behind the Wheel since I am now getting such great results.
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