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Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Sentence Builder (Practice Makes Perfect Series) 1st Edition
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Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your Spanish vocabulary and grammar skills together!
You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!
- ISBN-100071600396
- ISBN-13978-0071600392
- Edition1st
- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
- Publication dateJuly 22, 2009
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- Dimensions8.75 x 0.5 x 11 inches
- Print length224 pages
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- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education; 1st edition (July 22, 2009)
- Language : English, Spanish
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0071600396
- ISBN-13 : 978-0071600392
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.5 x 11 inches
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Possibly the most valuable insights I got from this book are the concise guiding principles found in Chapter 17 on when to use the present perfect subjunctive (pg. 167), the imperfect subjunctive (pg.169), and the pluperfect subjunctive (pg. 171) verb tenses. From these principles, it was easy to draw up a simple table that shows at a glance which subjunctive tense to use with which tense in the main clause. So logical---this alone was worth the price of the book.
The only drawback I can point out is that in the chapter on relative pronouns, el/la cual and el/la que are not given a thorough enough explanation. I still felt confused when I finished the chapter. When does one use these instead of que or quien? It was only after working through the same material in the book "Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions" (2nd ed.) by Dorothy Richmond that I learned that whereas que sets up both restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses, el/la que and el/la cual are used only in nonrestrictive clauses.
This book is great in the breadth of its coverage.
Here's my list of my favorite 7 products for learning Spanish that I think will help anyone who wants to learn or improve their Spanish. As you can see from many of my recommendations, I enjoy reading stories in Spanish because I believe reading stories really make the language stick in your head.
1. Easy Spanish Reader w/CD-ROM: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (Easy Reader Series)
I enjoy learning Spanish by reading because I believe reading helps make the language stick. Make sure that you get the version of this book that comes with the additional CD which contains recordings of passages from the book so that you can download them to your Ipod or mp3 player and improve your ability to understand the language when you hear someone speak it.
2. Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles (A Dual-Language Book) (English and Spanish Edition) This is my second favorite Spanish reader.
3. Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts) (Spanish and English Edition) Another great book for anyone who likes to learn the langauge by reading.
4. First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides) (English and Spanish Edition) A very popular book for learning the language by reading that I also enjoyed immensely.
5. Verbarrator Version 1.1 (Windows Version) This fun and interactive software has been a tremendous help for me in allowing me to now master what was once the most hardest part of learning Spanish for me (learning how to cojugate Spanish verbs).
6. Spanish for Reading: A Self-Instructional Course This book has done wonders to help my Spanish reading comprehension.
7. Correct Your Spanish Blunders: How to Avoid 99% of the Common Mistakes Made by Learners of Spanish If you are studying Spanish on your own and not with the help of a Spanish instructor, I strongly recommend that you get a copy of this book.
Just a note: if you're expecting a normal book with normal pages think again - this book is literally printed on newsprint. The thinnest, cheapest paper there is. The kind of paper you can rip with the tip of your pencil or and aggressive eraser. It's worth it to just make copies so you can write, edit, make notes and corrections and not have it fall apart or bleed on the next 10 pages of the chapter.
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I was genuinely surprised at how comfortable this book was to read cover to cover withouth my head splitting. I'm so impressed, I full intend order the equivalent text for my French study. Very satisfied!
or say if its a phrase or sentence, it gives you a list of possible
answers to select from. it teaches you about punctuation and spelling,
letter writing and how to use pronouns, adjectives and adverbs.
Like most Spanish books you buy, and this is no exception, it is
based on latin american and I'm learning Castillian (Spanish Spanish).
But there are only a few differences and these tend to be pronounciation.
Another book which helps you understand how to put your Spanish into words.