Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar | 
| Author: Gilda Nissenberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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ISBN: 0071422706
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
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Publication Date: March 26, 2004
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Product Description
Now beginners can master Spanish grammar with the proven Practice Makes Perfect method! Combining clear presentation, exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills has proven a winning formula for the Practice Makes Perfect workbook series. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar builds on the series' success with a similarly interactive approach, embracing all aspects of Spanish grammar that you need to master. This engaging guide offers: - An extensive grammar review, highlighted by illustrative examples
- Dozens of exercises, including fill-ins, translations, and creative writing
- Time saving thematic vocabulary panels to cut down on dictionary drudgery
- Boxed summaries of key grammar points for focused learning
- Detailed answer keys for progress checks
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Now beginners can master Spanish grammar with the proven Practice Makes Perfect method! Combining clear presentation, exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills has proven a winning formula for the Practice Makes Perfect workbook series. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar builds on the series' success with a similarly interactive approach, embracing all aspects of Spanish grammar that you need to master. This engaging guide offers: An extensive grammar review, highlighted by illustrative examples Dozens of exercises, including fill-ins, translations, and creative writing Time saving thematic vocabulary panels to cut down on dictionary drudgery Boxed summaries of key grammar points for focused learning Detailed answer keys for progress checks
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 Practice Makes Perfect Does it Again! August 7, 2006
A. Rivera (Daytona Beach, Florida)
66 out of 68 found this review helpful
As the editor of the Learning Spanish Products Reviews (LearningSpanishProductsReviews) site, one of my responsibilities is to review learning Spanish resources that are listed on Amazon. I am also a native Spanish speaker from Argentina and a professional private Spanish instructor. In addition, I am the author of two learning-Spanish products offered here at Amazon:
1. Anna Rivera's 1000 Plus Most Powerful Spanish Words
2. Anna Rivera's 800 Plus Most Powerful Spanish Phrases
I am compelled to give this book 5 stars. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar is a very thorough book.
There are at least seven benefits about the book:
1.) The format of the book is not of a textbook, but a workbook format which encourages the student to perform the book's exercises.
2.) Each unit of the book contains multiple exercises that cover the material that was just introduced in the same unit. Most of the exercises are open ended.
3.) Many of the exercises also cover vocabulary, that was covered in a previous lesson. This provides the student with a review and a reinforcement of the previously introduced material.
4.) The teaching technique of this book is not a technique based upon "memorization." It is a teaching technique that enables the student to understand and grasp the uses of the material as well as their subtleties. In fact, one of its greatest features is that the book's approach to mastery of Spanish grammar does not involve the drudgery normally associated with memorizing a myriad of grammatical rules. Since it approaches Spanish grammar as the framework to successful communication, the student views Spanish grammar as something less challenging and more rewarding.
5.) Another positive aspect that I noted is that the book has lessons and exercises for the beginner, intermediate and advanced student.
6.) One of the greatest benefits of this book is that it combines all of the great features of Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses and Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions into one very comprehensive book. You'll find all (or nearly all) of the verb tenses covered in Dorothy Richmond's Spanish Verb Tenses, including the present tense, the imperfect tense, the subjunctive mood, even the imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive. And you also find the topics of pronouns and prepositions, and "Por" and "Para" that you'll find in Dorothy Richmond's Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions.
7.) You'll also find topics not covered in the other Practice Makes Perfect Spanish books, such as commands, nouns and articles, adjectives, adverbs, indefinite and negative words and expressions, interrogative and exclamatory words, and more.
This book should be required reading for all students of Spanish.
EXCELLENT March 5, 2005
J. S. Orchard
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
This book is amazing. It really does contain ALL aspects of spanish grammar. There are clear grammar explanations, plenty of practice excercises and good vocabulary/idiom lists. Seriously, buy this book.
BTW: don't listen to the above reviewer. My copy is not missing a single page.
Awsome and Cheap December 3, 2005
M. Ng (Long Beach, CA)
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
This book deserves a 5-star rating because it is very comprehensive and it is very cheap. I love the exercieses because not only can you practice the grammar but also learn more new vocabularies.
However, this book is NOT for beginners. The author states in the preface that this book is for advanced beginners or above. You should have at least very basic knowledge of the lauguage. I started learning Spanish by listening to the Michel Thomas CD's (the complete 8-CD set). I really learned a lot, but the Michel Thomas course does not cover every thing. If you really want to be fluent or to be able to read Spanish, you should study more on your own. This book is a great follow-up.
My copy of this book does not miss anything. Don't listen to the other reviewer.
 Thorough but full of mistakes January 17, 2007
A. Duncan (Western PA)
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
I have been studying Spanish for 7+ years and used this book as a text book in a college course that focused on the verb conjugations and tenses. We did about 90% of the exercises in the book. It's very thorough with the material that it covers, but the answers in the back are full of so many mistakes that the book almost isn't worth it. It was frustrating for us students to use the book and check our answers only to find mistakes. Eventually our professor stopped using the book.
Excellent review for someone with previous knowledge February 24, 2006
Sterghe (Pennsylvania, USA)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Fantastic series!
What kind of learner am I?
I teach in a university-based adult education program, where many of my students are native Spanish speakers. My high school and college Spanish classes were a distant memory, but when I chose this book and its companions (pronouns and verbs), I DID remember enough to communicate at a basic level. I've found this series excellent for improving my Spanish enough for my students to comment enthusiastically after a relatively short time. I have no instructor, but I learn well from books, and I already knew how to pronounce Spanish words. For someone else in my position, I can't recommend this series highly enough--it's the best I found after extensive searching, library loans, etc.
Getting the most from this product:
I also recommend getting all three books (complete grammar, pronouns, and verbs) as I did. I've found that it's been helpful to work through a few sections in one book, switch to one of the others, and move ahead in similar jags through all three at once. I can tell when to switch by when I start to feel like I'm getting in over my head--I think it would be difficult to learn alone using just one of these.
Another tip: This series is pure grammar, but there's plenty of culture and literature available free online. I've supplemented the books by reading Spanish-language newspapers online (my favorite seems to be the BBC/Latin America), pasting the text into www.freetranslation.com to check my reading as needed. Often, I've translated these in their entirety for practice (the free translation's enough to understand, but not a particularly good translation). I also found a Spanish-speaking penpal by visiting Spanish chatrooms, and write back and forth frequently as a way to practice my written Spanish. These activities have provided the learning richness that simple grammar texts aren't intended to offer.
Who shouldn't use this?
However, if (for example) you know no (or almost no) Spanish now or remember very little vocabulary, this would be a poor choice. It definitely assumes some level of familiarity with the language.
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