Spanish Verbs (Barron's Verb Series) | 
| Author: Christopher Kendris Ph.d.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 50588
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0764113577
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
EAN: 9780764113574
ASIN: 0764113577
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
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Product Description
Approximately 300 most frequently used Spanish verbs are presented, one verb per page, arranged alphabetically, fully conjugated, and identified by the English infinitive form. Books in this series are smaller and shorter versions of Barron's 501 Verbs series. They make handy quick-reference sources for language students, teachers, and translators.
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Best Spanish Verbs Book May 31, 2008
This is the best Spanish verbs book for beginning or intermediate students because it has about 300 of the most frequently used verbs with all the tenses, and it is of a size and weight to easily fit in a crowded backpack, briefcase, etc. 99 out of 100 verbs that you need to check the tense on will be in this book.
Is this book better than Barron's 501 Spanish Verbs? January 11, 2008
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 Helpful for beginners December 21, 2007
This is a quck reference card intended as a companion to the Barron's book -- 501 Verbs. It is not sufficient on its own. However it is a very dense compilation of essentials, much more easily accessed than having to dig through the 501 or similar grammar books when one is first learning the ropes and framework of Spanish.
I used this card very, very frequently for my first month of independent spanish study. I greatly appreciated having a compact source of key things I needed to read over and over while trying to form a landscape view of this language. I am still pulling it out often to review key points. I am now at the start of month #3.
On one side of the card (3 pages worth when unfolded), it describes the purpose of each of the 7 simple tenses, the 7 compound tenses, the imperativo, the progressive forms, participles (Present and Past) as well as active versus passive voices. Key examples are given. On the other side is a very detailed conjugation plus English translation of a model verb (comer). Then the same table used in 501 is given for several strategically chosen regular and irregular verbs: dar, decir, estar, haber, hablar, hacer, ir and lavar.
The overall presentation of the card utilizes good graphics and color coded variations to assist in quickly finding the highlights. Without this feature, the very dense amount of information would be overwhelming -- but given the authors/publishers attention to detail -- I find it to be very user friendly.
The card is laminated and should be durable if kept reasonably protected in a notebook. Using it during my novice stage of exploring Spanish clearly saved a lot of wear and tear on my copy of 501 Verbs -- a resource needed indefinitely.
I have been learning Spanish at home by trying to combine several resources which I have learned work best with my learning style. I have had no prior Spanish training. Instead, I was inspired by a recent trip to South America. However, I did have 2 years of high school Latin and 2 years of college German -- none of which I even vaguely remember 30 years later.
The primary wisdom I gleaned from this lost Latin and German exposure is that I wanted to balance the current "fad" toward total language "immersion" with some solid sense of its grammatical structure. The audio programs (such as Learning Spanish Like Crazy and Earworm) as well as the travel phrase books work much better for me when I have a skeletal structure on which to hand all those neatly compiled, oft repeated phrases.
Therefore, this review card, the larger 501 book from which it is derived, and Dorothy Richmond's Spanish Verb Tenses (part of the Practice Makes Perfect Series) were my among my most used companions. I still pull out my review card, maybe even with a bit of fondness now, when I am returning to working on a new verb tense or when work has been so busy that I had to skip a few days of my home study plan.
A great language tool December 6, 2007
I bought this item for my daughter, who was having a problem learning verb conjugation in her Spanish 101 course in college. She started using it from the moment it arrived, and her instructor saw a marked improvement in her performance in class. It made sense of verbal conjugation for her, and will undoubtedly result in her doing much better in this class.
Verb Books Are Very Useful July 28, 2007
I bought this verb book when I started learning Spanish. I find that verb books in any language are very useful. This particular book contains about 300 verbs fully conjugated in all the tenses. It makes looking up a certain verb conjugation very easy.
I'd say use this one to carry around in your pocket. There are other Spanish verb books, but they're much larger and not very portable.
Brandon Simpson
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