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Summary: Making an easy transition . . .
Review: This book helps you make the 'baby steps' necessary to eventually walk by taking you step by step thru the present tense, then warping to other tenses past and present all the way allowing you to build confidence by practicing each newly learned skill. Worth buying if you feel you need a bit of a review or trying to learn a few new tricks!
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Summary: Perfect
Review: This book is great. It implores the rules or practice make perfect. You review ample examples to guide you. It is a great book and you'll be surprised at how much you retain. Use it along with the Pratice Pronouns and a vocabulary builder and you are well on your way to learning Spanish grammar.
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Summary: Exactly what I was looking for
Review: For those who are looking for a thorough review at a reasonable price, this is it. I am a college student and don't have much to spend on books but I felt like I got my money's worth. The exercises were difficult enough that I didn't feel as though it was repeating the same info as my beginning spanish books. Also, it jumps into the more difficult verbs and tenses right away.
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Summary: Well worth the Money!
Review: The world needs more language materials like this one; cheap books that tackle an important and difficult area of the target language, without a lot of confusing and superfluous material.As anyone who has tried to learn a Romance language knows, the hardest part of learning Spanish, French, Italian, etc, is mastering the myriad of verb tenses. Once you have your verb tenses down pat, the rest is relatively easy. This book does a good job of covering those verb tenses. Admirably, it doesn't bog you down by giving you hundreds of words that you'll probably never use, but limits the amount a vocabulary it throws at you, instead consentrating on working the more important verbs, and working them thoroughly. As they say, practice makes perfect, and you can never have too much practice when it comes to verbs. I highly recommend this book along with it's companion piece, which works with prepositions and pronouns (the other areas of the language that are apt to give the learner some difficulty).
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Summary: Best Spanish workbook in the world
Review: This text/workbook is so good that it travels with me from country to country when most of my books go in the garbage because they're heavy to carry. DD Richmond has a way of keeping the simple simple and making the complex understandable. A short lesson is presented; then the student can practice with worksheets that actually allow enough space to write in. It starts very basic but also tackles advanced and problematic areas for English speakers. Vocabulary development occurs naturally in the context of the verb study. The table of contents makes finding specifics easy. I've recommended this book to family members who are studying in the US as well as to people who come to Mexico for immersion Spanish classes.
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Summary: Getting to grip with those verbs
Review: I have been trying to learn Spanish for a couple of years. After some basic lessons in Chile the verbs soon became a stumbling block. Spanish Verb Tenses has give me an understandable structure with work with and complements the more formal university Spanish courses available to me perfectly.
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Summary: Great Review
Review: I don't think this book would work for someone who has NO familiarity with Spanish, BUT, if you have had a class in the past, are taking a class now, etc., and need to increase your understanding of Spanish verbs, I would highly recommend this book. It is very well written, and the excercises are interesting and helpful. Good luck with your Spanish studies!!! JM
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Summary: excellent book
Review: I am currently taking spanish 2. This is a wonderful supplement for learning verb tenses. Its actually better than my textbook beacuse it explains everything very simply. I strongly recommend everyone to buy this book if they are wanting to really master verbs.
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Summary: Clearly written explanation with concise examples.
Review: The explanations given in this book are the clearest I have found for the use of the various tenses and verbs. For example, the author provides five pages of material describing the proper uses of 'ser' and 'estar.' She clearly details how each should be used. The exercises are very appliable and to the point. The book is wonerfully lacking in linguistic jargon. Any linguistic terms used are explained clearly with appropriate examples. The format is very easy to follow, and the book is logically organized. This book is exactly what it claims to be. It provides further practice for someone with a basic grasp of Spanish. I am using it in conjunction with Barron's Mastering Spanish Level II audiocassette series and have found it to be a very useful asset. Answers to the exercises are given in an easy-to-read format in the back of the book.
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Summary: Piece of cake, Latino-style
Review: Dorothy Devney Richmond has written a series of books to help us dullards learn to habla el español, and they are real doozies. This one goes bam, bam, bam. It hits all those points that have been confusing you in your long struggle to master this beautiful tongue. It is clear. It is concise. She knows exactly what it is that is confusing us, and she straightens us out. Bless her heart. I hope she's getting rich. She deserves it. I live in Mexico, and last year I attended a language school for six months. It was not until I finally stumbled, muttering incoherently, from the school that I found Professor Richmond. Everything is finally falling into place, and it will for you, too. There are companion workbooks (yes, this is a series of workbooks): Another is on pronouns and prepositions. Great, well-focused instruction. May you soon sound like Cervantes and look like Antonio Banderas or Salma Hayak. You would like that, no? Thank Professor Richmond.
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