Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary

Practice Makes Perfect

by Dorothy Richmond

Polish your Spanish vocabulary skills Building on the success of her prior book, Practice Makes Spanish Verb Tenses , author Dorothy Devney Richmond helps you attain a strong working vocabulary, no matter if you are an absolute beginner or an intermediate student of the language. She combines her proven instruction techniques and clear explanationswith a plethora of engaging exercises, so you aremotivated and hardly notice that you are absorbing so muchSpanish. Practice Makes Spanish Vocabulary also includes basic grammar and structures of the language to complement your newly acquired words. "Vocabulary Builders" help you add to your Spanish repertoire by using cognates, roots, suffixes, prefixes, and other "word-building" tools.

Genres: Spanish Literature, Language, Nonfiction, Reference

436 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Maaja Wentz]

I haven't found a better series for Spanish. Guaranteed if you work your way through this book, you will learn a lot. Not for beginners.

[Ci]

Even though memorizing lists of words and phrases do not work for me, this book does provide excellent tutoring tool for building a structure to understand Spanish. I enjoy reading the short essays and stories in each chapter, which is often lively and contemporary.

[Rebecca]

I liked that it lists vocab by topic - handy if you want to look for words relating to a specific field e.g. sciences, nature etc. A very comprehensive book although I had to do some of the exercises on my own paper as the space allocated in the book is not always enough.

[Simon Brass]

Sometimes it feels like there is a bit too much vocabulary - words that are rarely used in English - ie) should I learn these random words should they ever come up in conversation? Now of course you can just skip over them - my only complaint is that it makes the task feel more daunting then needed - instead of pages top to bottom vocabulary I think it could be cut down. Otherwise, a great resource.