Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish All-In-One

by Dorothy Richmond

Learn the Spanish you need. Gain the language skills you want.

"Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish" is a trusted companion to your Spanish-learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, author Dorothy Richmond explains one--and only one--grammar concept and illustrates it with many clear examples. The accompanying fun and interesting exercises let you practice, practice, practice what you have learned. Although these lessons are purposely short so you can complete them in twenty minutes or less, you can go at a pace that works for you.

This guide/workbook will help you master
present tense verb conjugation the "ser" and "estar" verb forms adjectives possessive pronouns sentence structures the contractions "al" and "del" indefinite articles "tener" idioms and more

Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning Spanish class, "Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish" will help you build your confidence.

Genres: Spanish Literature, Language, Nonfiction, Reference, Textbooks

656 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Joseph Hirsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Amazon widget that tracks my purchases—and probably spies on me for the NSA—informs me I bought the second edition of this book in November of 2021. I have worked with it, in addition to two or three other Spanish books, for that same time period. Additionally, I have watched telenovelas en Español (that’s Spanish for “Spanish”) and also watched peleas entre varios peleadores en Español. That’s even more Spanish to prove that, despite suffering head trauma and smoking tons of weed as a youth, I am in fact capable of learning, if only slower than your average gabacho.
How much did I learn, though? I would say a lot. I’m proficient enough, for instance, to order food from a Mexican restaurant without overly annoying the camareros allí. I can even understand a goodly bit of the commentary on the fights I watch, too. “Este gancho derecho al hígado se parece muy poderoso! No pienso el puede a recuperar! A ver, a ver!” Contrast this with in the before-times where I could only understand the Futból commentator screaming “GOOOOOAL!!!” at full bore, or a Guadalajara prostitute telling me, “Tu sabor es muy extraño. Pienso será dos mil mas pesos.”
With more luck and dedication, I’ll eventually be able to understand the slang-laden, argot heavy insults and threats the Narcos issue each other on the telenovelas. Ojalá, pienso, ojalá.

[Luca · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very superficial and bad organised