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Title: Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns And Prepositions by Dorothy Richmond, Dorthy Richmond ISBN: 0844273112 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Spanish Practice Tool
Comment: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions is a great book for practicing these often forgotten parts of speech that are critical for achieving fluency in Spanish. 14 units, 3-12 pages each, each cover a different use of pronouns in Spanish, and prepositions (especially por and para) likewise receive extensive coverage. Each unit opens with a bit of reading, but the practice starts quickly. The book's translation exercises are especially valuable for learning vocabulary and forming sentences in context. The answers to all the exercises are in the back, so you can get instant feedback on how well you are doing.
I've noticed a problem with this text, however. While each unit includes at least several exercises, I feel that this is often not enough to gain a firm understanding of the material. With so many different uses of pronouns, for example, it is easy to forget the one done six units ago. And since the text teaches the uses of so many different prepositions, more practice with them would be helpful. As a result, I believe this book could be improved by including additional exercises in each unit, plus several review translation exercises that incorporate the content of multiple units.
Even with this minor problem, this book is easily the best workbook that I've seen for learning Spanish pronouns and prepositions. And for $10, it's tough to go wrong (Spanish workbooks inferior to this that are used in my college cost $20-30 or more). Go ahead, buy it!
Rating: 4
Summary: Spanish Workbooks - Pronouns and Prepositions
Comment: I think that anyone interested in studying Spanish, especially if they want to study it on their own, should have this workbook as part of their repertoire. I have found it invaluable. I recommend it highly. (I have also purchased and studied her other workbook on Verb Tenses and the reviews for both books are similar.)
I have given the book a 4 star rating rather than five for the following reasons:
1. Lack of an index: I find it hard to comprehend how a contemporary academic book can be published without an index. There is a tremendous amount of valuable information contained in this book but being limited to the Table of Contents or to ones memory of where a specific item can be found is debilitating. This is a terrible ommission.
2. There are times when the Author appears to have been in a rush and has not either given sufficient examples or explanations on why a particular rule was invoked. One is left to wonder if there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the point being made or if there is simply a typographical error. Those who are reading this book on their own, without the benefit of an instructor, would benefit greatly from some additional explanations (and cross references.) It is clear from the book's Acknowledgements page that Dorothy Richmond wrote this book because of the persistent nagging of her students to provide additional examples, but most readers will not be in her classroom, rather, they will be virtual students, highly dependent upon additional textual clarification.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb book!
Comment: Use it with the verb workbook, a good Spanish/English dictionary, and you have everything you need to master the language!
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Title: Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish by Joseph J. Keenan ISBN: 029274322X Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words by Seymour Resnick ISBN: 0486291138 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: 501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by Christopher Kendris ISBN: 0812092821 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice by Ronni L. Gordon, David M. Stillman, NTC Publishing Group, NTC ISBN: 0658000756 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: First Spanish Reader (Dual-Language) by Angel Flores ISBN: 0486258106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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