501 Spanish Verbs

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book conjugates 501 spanish verbs in all 13 tenses. Great if you are having trouble with conjugations. Highly recommended by my teacher for college students.

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Summary: An essential reference for the serious student of Spanish!
Review: I have used this book for over three years and it has been an absolutely valuable resource for solving those mindboggeling verb conjugations on so many occaisions. There is no other book like it and is well worth the investment.

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Summary: MOST HELPFUL BOOK
Review: I have been studying spanish for five years and have found that 501 Verbs truly helps me maintain my knowledge of the tenses. This is a great reference book and should be used intelligently. Just don't constantly depend on it; you should learn the tenses first then have it to refresh your memory.

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Summary: read it so many times
Review: It s like the bible for people trying to learn spanish. i love this book i can refrence it for everything. it not only shows you how to conjugate verbs but it shows you vocab and many other practice problems. it is so awsome i recommend this to everyone learning spanish and they have them made for french italian and english too for anyone who is learning other languages. please buy this book it has every verb needed to live in spanish societys love it it is so hott.

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Summary: Serious Student
Review: As a reference for anyone learning Spanish, this is an excellent tool. It does exactly what it claims: it provides a set of Spanish verbs with their conjugations for the use of anyone not quite sure how a particular word should be be conjugated. This is especially helpful for students in their first few years of studying the language, who may understand the rules of Spanish conjugation but need more practice to become confident in their own writing.

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Summary: Really Important Information you need to know
Review: While this book is really extensive, and I have it for both French and German too, it is important to note the title: 501 Spanish verbs. Unlike other books which give a more limited full description of verbs and a long list of ones with cross-references, it only has these 501 verbs. If you need something that covers all the bases, I recommened the Oxford or Teach Yourself Spanish Verbs book. You'll find that you won't get frustrated when a verb is missing, and that a comparatively pocket-sized verb book is a better choice.

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Summary: a life saver
Review: As a Spanish student. 501 Spanish verbs is very helpful when checking your work, just to make sure you understand the material and make sure all your answers are correct. However, I have noticed that some verbs I have looked up are not in the book. It is still very helpful. It has a section where you can look up irregularly conjugated verbs, so if you are reading something and see a word you are not sure of, you can look it up and find what verb it came from. I got this book in my fourth year of Spanish, but I wish i had got it my first. I highly reccomend this book to any Spanish student or even anyone who wants to learn a little Spanish. There are also phrases used in different situations in this book which can be helpful. It's a bit expensive and bulky to lug around, but definately worth is whether you are using it only as a reference or are using it to actually study and learn Spanish.

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Summary: A must have Resource for the Learning Spanish Library.
Review: 501 Spanish Verbs is a very thorough and comprehensive resource book. It is one of those rare books that does exactly what it says that it will do. No more and no less. The book's title says 501 Spanish Verbs "fully conjugated in all the tenses in a new easy to learn format alphabetically arranged." And that's exactly what you get.

The verbs are exhaustively covered. As a former English major, I could not imagine any other verb tense which is not covered in 501 Spanish Verbs. But it is still only intended to be used a resource book.

As a resource book, I highly recommend it. And I make this recommendation without any reservation whatsoever. The Spanish course that I recommend that you use in conjunction with it is Learning Spanish Like Crazy. Learning Spanish Like Crazy is a course that truly overdelivers.


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Summary: Interesting approach but i like Platiquemos better
Review: No doubt this book is neccesary to actually learn all the verbs. But I am finding Platiquemos Spanish course to be a much funner way to practice verbs since it is in a context of learning the whole language, and has audio practice as well.

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Summary: A very good reference that could stand a little improvement.
Review: This book has been of great use to me as a beginning Spanish student. The type is easy to read although I agree with the reviewer who writes that the paper quality could be better. Then again, however, the book is rather affordable considering all the information is gives to the person using it. The type is in both red and black with the colors used as necessary to emphasize the points the authors wished to make. This is a helpful addition to previous editions which were completely in black print.

I also think that this book cannot be the only verb book the student ever uses. It's particularly good for the beginner student but more advanced verbs (for the advanced student) are lacking. An example of such a missing verb is "tutear," which means using the "tu" form of the verb (2nd person singular) when speaking to people you know. An advanced student would want such verbs and these are not complete here.

The book does have some verbs quizzes with answers and explanations at the end; this is a plus. It is written is easy to understand English which is also good.

All in all, this actually is an indispensable book for almost every Spanish student but it could be more complete. Typographical errors exist but they are few. I would recommend this book and I have profited from it as a Spanish student.