Rating: Summary: A MUST Have Review: If you are studying the Spanish language or have an interest in doing so, you must have this book. It will become your best friend as you learn the different verb tenses involved in the Spanish language.
Rating: Summary: A Great Reference Book Review: I found 501 Spanish Verbs to be very helpful. It is very thorough in providing all the tenses for the verbs. What I also found especially helpful is that additional related vocabulary words are listed at the bottom of each page. This book is a good reference tool.
Rating: Summary: The best spanish book fo high schoolers Review: Hello. My name is Cara and I am taking Spanish 1B and I am in the 9th grade. Right now we are studing verbs and stem changing verbs and conjungation and this book has helped me alot. It has full bold print letters and all of the conjungation needed to get you through Spanish. so hurry up- and get it .
Rating: Summary: very useful Review: Indispensable. Why 4 stars? Because there's nothing particularly special about this book as opposed to the several other "500 Spanish Verb" books out there, they are essentially all the same. This book works as a good reference and study guide, and I found it quite handy travelling in Mexico.
Rating: Summary: Best Resource, Hands Down Review: The 501 Verbs series is the best resource, hands down, out there for language students. As a linguist I appreciate the quick ability to explore the different verb forms and learn vocabulary all at once. This provides a serious language student the information he/she needs to excel. I highly recommend it!
Rating: Summary: Very helpful and easy to use. Review: I bought this book for my advanced spanish class and it has been more than used, it's been almost a necessity. Now, that is a bit extreme, but I do highly recommend this book to anyone needing help in any tense in spanish, or anyone who just wants to know more about how to speak in the correct tense. This book is very easy to use due to the fantastically simple format. This book has come in handy several times already, and I've only had mine less than a month. This is a very helpful book and I would suggest anyone buy it who are planning to go to higher level spanish.
Rating: Summary: Overrated and Inefficient Review: I am on a crash course to learn spanish and have acquired many books and resources, ... my local library. This book was so highly touted by other ... reviewers that I bought it. I am not that impressed. Precisely half the book is totally redundant, because all compound tenses are presented in their entirety, but the forms of hacer they are formed with never change. Second, there is no indcation when the form is irregular. Does the author expect you to memorize all the verb forms? The idea is to learn patterns and exceptions. The Langerscheidt dictionary's verb conjugation tables, at the back of the book, in contrast are a model of efficiency. First, a model for all regular verbs is provided, then models for different families, e.g. -car verbs. Finally, all irregualar forms are shown in bold, so you can zero in on the exceptions and try to commit them to memory. The patterns are labelled, e.g. <1a> for regular -ar verbs, etc. Then *every* verb in the dictionary is referenced to a specific pattern, e.g. hablar <1a>. In defense of the book, there are 20 pages of notes on when to use which tenses which are moderately helpful. But the book "Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish" is probably more useful because it tells what tenses you can safely ignore.
Rating: Summary: A MUST HAVE BOOK FOR THOSE LEARNING THE LANGUAGE Review: I learned the Spanish language approximately ten years ago but no longer have a need to use it on a daily basis. As time goes by, like everything else in life, if we do not use it, we lose it. This philosophy can also be applied to the study of different languages. In addition, I also speak French and have been known on occasion to confuse the two languages when conjugating a confusing verb. This book is so easy to use and well organized that one who is not completely, one hundred percent fluent in Spanish cannot do without it. It is the Spanish learner's bible and a terrific investment at an affordable price.
Rating: Summary: As good as advertised, but pair it with something Review: I agree with all the comments here about "501 Spanish Verbs" being the single best verb reference book on the planet. But it is, after all, just a reference book. As a complement to Kendris' work, may I suggest you *also* check out "Spanish Verb Tenses" by Dorothy Devney Richmond. It's a workbook chock full of literally thousands of exercises. It uses about 150 of the verbs in Kendris' list to drill, drill, drill the various verb tenses into your subconciousness. So use "501 Verbs" to beef up your verb vocabulary and conquer irregular forms; then use "Spanish Verb Tenses" to figure out when and how to use them.
Rating: Summary: What it's hyped up to be Review: You'll see someone using this book probably in every Spanish class you have ever taken. That's because it's *that* good. The book does what it says--give you the full conjugations (every tense and mood) of 501 (I never counted, could be somewhat off though) common Spanish verbs, listed in alphabetical order. As a bonus, at the back there is a short grammar appendix now as reference. Don't hesitate, get this book now if you want to know and be able to look up your conjugations.
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