Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar

Practice Makes Perfect

by Gilda Nissenberg

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The most hands-on, practical workbook for learning to read, write and speak Spanish flawlessly





Practice, practice, practice—and improve your ability to read, write and speak Spanish as it’s really used. Practice Makes Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition has everything you need to progress from beginning to advanced fluency, from clear explanations and practical examples to all the practice required for language mastery.

This updated, new edition boasts enhanced audio support online and via mobile app, ensuring you’ll speak the language as well as you write and speak it. In addition to recordings of the answers of more than 200 exercises in the book, the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app now includes audio for hundreds of example sentences throughout the book, along with text-to-speech pronunciation for all vocabulary flashcard lists.

Practice Makes Perfect Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition

• 350 exercises in 26 units covering all aspects of Spanish grammar, with explanations that include useful/helpful comparisons with English grammar• Author has a proven teaching record, with extensive experience as an educator and curriculum developer• Clear explanations and thorough exercises• Recordings of exercise answers, and, new to this example sentences and vocabulary lists• Exercises for use either in the classroom use or for individual study

Genres: Spanish Literature, Language, Reference, Nonfiction, Education, Linguistics

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 17, 2004

Reviews

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was really good in terms of explaining many grammar points and providing examples but the amount of exercises did not even compare to the "Spanish Verb Tenses" of the series. The latter included so many exercises that it was difficult not to cement certain grammar rules into one's head. This book can be said to serve the "polishing of the skills" rather than "practising until you become perfect" purpose.

Moreover, in comparison, I found "Spanish Verb Tenses" more consistent with their answers which made it easier to do the exercises correctly. Here, even though the vocabulary section provides a couple of versions of the same word/expression, when you do the writing task you find only one of the expressions used and therefore you cannot know if there actually was a possibility to use another expression/word which was available in the "useful vocabulary" section and how would that have changed the structure of the sentence.

Finally, I did not understand what was the use of personal questions as exercises if the book is meant for individual learners who have no teacher to confirm whether their answers are grammatically correct or not? These "personal questions" were the most annoying since I saw no point in answering them.

[Reece · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nissenberg’s textbook thoroughly explains Spanish grammar well enough to instill good habits via rote memorization and study. The major concern is that it does so little to immerse the student into the Spanish language. Regardless of the fact that there is audio access for the exercises, these exercises and any accompanying examples are only ever one sentence in length, almost always existing outside of any context. We see structure, but only ever in the framing of one sentence, perhaps two, though neither ever challenges the reader much. It’s a fine textbook, but it fails to build much literacy in its not presenting stories, paragraphs, etc. in Spanish to the reader. I would recommend it, certainly more than Madrigal's middling book, but it is limited.

[Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

My fourth spanish grammar exercise book!

This practice makes perfect series is really great. I'm always working through one between court calls. They are not for beginners though. They assume you already know a lot. Nothing has been as effective for learning spanish as working through grammar books.

[Janis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this workbook to supplement my in-person Conversational Spanish class. It definitely helped me to understand the grammatical rules and the nuances of the language. The exercise questions were varied and reinforced the material, although sometimes the answer key was obviously incorrect.

[Devin Stevenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the hardest i ever worked to finish a book. Definitely helped though. I recommend it for students transitioning out of beginner.

[Martin Humphreys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me gusta

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Plagued with typos, such as stating that 'vendría' means 'I would sell' rather than 'I would come'. Takes an unsystematic approach to vocabulary that doesn't build on itself at all.

The free materials on Studyspanish.com do a better job.

[Sanrizz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very thorough, one of my favorites. It's a book for people who can already speak the language fluently, but still struggle with grammar from time to time. Not recommended for novices.

[James Jingxing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Placeholder for an in class reading on the passive voice of Spanish. Fun and insightful

[Constance · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Bookmark that answer page. "Practice makes perfect" challenges readers to practice the Spanish language.

Also, "Complete Spanish Grammer" offers exposure to useful spanish grammer vocabulary words, for example: nouns and past participle.



Guauu. Bookmark esta página respuesta. "La práctica hace perfecto" desafíos a los lectores a practicar el idioma español .

También, "Complete español Grammer ", ofrece la exposición a palabras útiles españoles vocabulario gramática , por ejemplo: los sustantivos y participio pasado. ~ a google translate

[Pacific Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I began by completing every exercise in each chapter, but around half-way through I noticed that this was a very inefficient (and demoralizing) way to retain the grammatical knowledge. I think a new learner would do well to skim through a book like this, without doing the exercises, and then try to notice these used in real life. Read actual outside material in the language like newspapers, and listen to podcasts, etc. You can look up individual grammatical rules further in depth as needed, but most of it will be picked up intuitively.

[Leo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very instructional, well structured and has good workbook material.

[Simon Brass · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the series - my go to resource for language learning.

[Maya O’Connell · Rating 5 out of 5]

this summer has been a movie 🙌