Essential Spanish Grammar: All The Grammar Really Needed For Speech And Comprehension (Dover Language Guides Essential Grammar)

Very good learning tool

this is the way to learn spanish. I have done Pimsler and Rosetta stone and although you learn words and phrases much much quicker with those methods, you'll learn the language better and with a much more thouroughly by using this graded reader method adn using this book to augment that learning. It focuses on understanding vs speaking. Think of a baby he/she hears thousands of words before they ever speak, when they do it is not a matter of knowing the word for them it is still how to make the sounds but the knolwedge is now there. I think althiough this method is slower at first to learn to speak after a few months the rate of learning greatly increase and the speed of the learning triples each lesson so that ultimatly after 6 months comapring allthree methods I will know more words and understand how to have an actual conversation much much better than a memorazation leaning based cirriculam could offer. try it have patients and you'll find this is the best path to long termmemory and command fo the spanish language

I do like this book. It's concise and helpful. I'm enjoying it. However my only complaint is there is no "tu" form for the verb conjugations. I mostly use the "tu" form. Maybe they use Usted more in Spain? But I'm going to write the "tu" form into the book to practice, but it's annoying to have to do that. For the price it's a good book though.

I used this book 40 years ago in college, and I still have it. I'm now re-learning Spanish along with my wife, so I bought a copy for her. It is a remarkably concise summary of Spanish grammar essentials, teaching just enough practical grammar for the reader to be able to converse. The explanation and examples are good. Brevity and clarity are the book's main strengths. The author made good decisions about what to cover and what not to cover. The actual Spanish grammar portion of the book is only about 60 pages. Most of the rest of the book is in two appendices: a 32-page list of cognates and a ten-page glossary of grammatical terms. I think these were added mostly to make the book long enough to sell. But I don't hold that against the author/publisher, because the core 60 pages are excellent.

An excellent and handy synopsis of Spanish grammar, written by an author who is obviously at home in English and Spanish--and not like so many other grammars authored by individuals who are not perfectly bilingual and introduce errors of spelling and translation inaccuracies. In addition to tables of verb conjugations, there are useful tables of other parts of speech, useful expressions for learners, vocabulary tips, plus a glossary of grammatical terms. The author has also published a companion book, "1001 Most Useful Spanish Words" in which the vocabulary is used in sentences.

This book is a pretty good review of the essentials of Spanish grammar, valuable as a quick review. However, it's showing its age (first copyright 1959). The informal tú and vosotros second person forms are largely ignored, in verb conjugation and in pronouns, on the claim that these forms are not used except between family and close friends. Definitely not true today, especially in Latin America. Lots of stuff about the subjunctive, which again is less used than in the past. The list of cognates is useful. On the whole, though, the book is badly in need of updating to describe contemporary Spanish.

Great book with lots of information . Easy to read and follow along with the ideas given to improve your Spanish

Concepts of basic Spanish grammar, that have eluded or confused me for months, are crystal clear now, with this book, including reflexive verbs. Some people are able to learn a language by listening and attempting to speak it, but others of us desperately require some structure as a framework to hang all the spoken words on and make sense of them. This book is excellent for that purpose and I am so glad I found it on Amazon. I have Seymour Resnick's other book, 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words, which I also recommend.

I bought it for a friend so that he could improve his Spanish, I have looked at the book several times when visiting and found the contents very informative.

just okay nothing special.