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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
EAN: 9780764179846
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0764179845
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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The Worlds Best Selling Verb Book and with good reason!
Fluency in Spanish starts with knowledge of verbsand Barrons 501 Spanish Verbs shows students and travelers exactly how to use the 501 most common and useful Spanish verbs in all 16 tenses and moods. Each verb is alphabetically listed in easy-to-follow chart form, one verb per page with its English translation.
Important added features include
Formation and usage of Spanish verb tenses and moods summarized as they relate to their English equivalents The 55 most essential Spanish verbs specially highlighted and supplemented with sample sentences and related words and expressions Progressive forms of Spanish verbs Formation of present and past participles Passive and active voice formations Principal parts of important Spanish verbs Sentences demonstrating Spanish verb usage in all tenses with English translations 26 sets of exercises in Spanish verb usage with answers explained Two-color type for ease of reference A-to-Z page edges marked in second color for quick reference to verbs
Plus enlightening appendixes that cover
Defective and impersonal verbs A guide to Spanish pronunciation Verbs used in weather expressions Verbs with prepositions An index of common irregular Spanish verb forms English-Spanish verb index List of more than 2,100 Spanish verbs! Every verb on the list is related to a model verb thats conjugated in the same way.
Enclosed with each book is a brand-new CD-ROM filled with
Sentence completion exercises Dialogue exercises Word Completion exercises Word Puzzles Matching Spanish and English phrases
Unlike software enclosed with verb books from other publishers, Barrons CD-ROM concentrates exclusively on teaching verb usage that applies to reading, writing, and speaking in Spanish. The instructive and fun-to-do exercises and puzzles come with an audio option that demonstrates correct Spanish pronunciation. Barrons CD-ROM is also more adaptable than the others because you can download it on any PC® or Mac®.
501 Spanish Verbs plus CD-ROMa great language learning program!
Its an invaluable classroom supplement for students and teachers, a self-teaching guide for international travelers, and a handy reference volume for translators. Students quickly discover that learning Spanish becomes easier with this book/CD-ROM combination because it teaches verbs and verb usage systematically. In addition to the 501 verb tables, the authors have provided a wealth of additional features that will help students develop a truly comprehensive command of Spanish for speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension.
Theres a reason other publishers imitate 501 Spanish Verbs. After almost 50 years on the market, Barrons verb books are still the best!
Choose the original!
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I can tell you from a brutal 18 years of experience as a Spanish student, 99% of the challenge in speaking Spanish is learning to deal with the verb conjugations. You will get absolutely nowhere until you get some rudimentary ability with that. You must learn to relate the conjugated verb that you hear to its infinitive. Thus if you hear "corremos," you need to recognize that that is a form of the verb "correr," which means "to run." It's not easy and the problem is made soo annoyingly worse by the fact that you will not find the conjugated verb forms in any Spanish dictionary. Thus if you are reading a book and you want to look up "corro" (I run), you will find no such word in the dictionary...you will only find "correr," but if you don't understand that "corro" is a form of "correr," then you are totally hosed. 501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris is largely a valuable dictionary of verbs along with their conjugated forms (something you will not find elsewhere), but the real jewel of the book is a 30 page primer on Spanish grammar. 30 pages is much easier to read and digest than some 500 page Spanish textbook, but also probably gives you 100% of what you will ever need to know...in only 30 pages. I spoke and listened to Spanish every day for a solid year without making much progress. Then someone loaned me this book and I made great progress after that.
One correction to the book: Gustar is a problem for English speaking students of Spanish because it's used backwards of the way we phrase the corresponding concept in English. This book has a poor handling of this word and I can suggest something more useful. "Gustar" is often defined as "to like" as in "to like something" as in "I like you" or "I like food." That's not a good definition because the verb is not conjugated that way. For example, if you think of "gustar" as "to like," the sentence "I like you," would be something like "Me gusto a ti," attempting to conjugate "gustar" to "I like" as "gusto." But that actually means something close to "you like me," the opposite of what was intended. The actual sentence would be "Me gustas." Again if you think of "gustar" as "to like," "gustas" would seem to mean "you like" and the example sentence would seem to mean "you like me," again the opposite of what it actually means. All of that is so confusing, but the confusion is somewhat needless.
Instead, "gustar" should be thought of as "to please" and the student needs to learn to phrase the English concept this way before translating to Spanish. Thus the common phrase "I like you" needs to be phrased as "you please me," leading more easily to the correct conjugation of "gustas" meaning "you please." 501 Spanish verbs does mention "to please" in the defintion, but it also defines it as "to like" and that leads to confusion. Moreover, the conjugations listed for this verb are not complete and thus many needed conjugations are ignored. For example, "gustas" is not listed, along with many more. Unfortunately I can not list here the 50 needed conjugations...you're on your own for that!
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I can tell you from a brutal 18 years of experience as a Spanish student, 99% of the challenge in speaking Spanish is learning to deal with the verb conjugations. You will get absolutely nowhere until you get some rudimentary ability with that. You must learn to relate the conjugated verb that you hear to its infinitive. Thus if you hear "corremos," you need to recognize that that is a form of the verb "correr," which means "to run." It's not easy and the problem is made soo annoyingly worse by the fact that you will not find the conjugated verb forms in any Spanish dictionary. Thus if you are reading a book and you want to look up "corro" (I run), you will find no such word in the dictionary...you will only find "correr," but if you don't understand that "corro" is a form of "correr," then you are totally hosed. 501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris is largely a valuable dictionary of verbs along with their conjugated forms (something you will not find elsewhere), but the real jewel of the book is a 30 page primer on Spanish grammar. 30 pages is much easier to read and digest than some 500 page Spanish textbook, but also probably gives you 100% of what you will ever need to know...in only 30 pages. I spoke and listened to Spanish every day for a solid year without making much progress. Then someone loaned me this book and I made great progress after that.
One correction to the book: Gustar is a problem for English speaking students of Spanish because it's used backwards of the way we phrase the corresponding concept in English. This book has a poor handling of this word and I can suggest something more useful. "Gustar" is often defined as "to like" as in "to like something" as in "I like you" or "I like food." That's not a good definition because the verb is not conjugated that way. For example, if you think of "gustar" as "to like," the sentence "I like you," would be something like "Me gusto a ti," attempting to conjugate "gustar" to "I like" as "gusto." But that actually means something close to "you like me," the opposite of what was intended. The actual sentence would be "Me gustas." Again if you think of "gustar" as "to like," "gustas" would seem to mean "you like" and the example sentence would seem to mean "you like me," again the opposite of what it actually means. All of that is so confusing, but the confusion is somewhat needless.
Instead, "gustar" should be thought of as "to please" and the student needs to learn to phrase the English concept this way before translating to Spanish. Thus the common phrase "I like you" needs to be phrased as "you please me," leading more easily to the correct conjugation of "gustas" meaning "you please." 501 Spanish verbs does mention "to please" in the defintion, but it also defines it as "to like" and that leads to confusion. Moreover, the conjugations listed for this verb are not complete and thus many needed conjugations are ignored. For example, "gustas" is not listed, along with many more. Unfortunately I can not list here the 50 needed conjugations...you're on your own for that!
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this is a great book that will help all starting or even advanced speakers with their spanish verbs tenses. make Spanish class easier to pass with this book.
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I took an evening Spanish 101 at the local university a few months back, and bought about a dozen different reference books that I thought I would need as a class supplement. Yes I like to go overboard. Pretty much from the first day of class on, there were only 2 supplements that I used constantly, the others never got touched. Those books were this book and the Collins Spanish Concise Dictionary; and they got used a lot. Until you've gotten to a fairly advanced level, I would save your money and stick with those 2 books.
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