Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish All-in-One, Premium Third Edition

Great book, I study with it everyday

I learned Spanish in high school, but haven't studied it in about 20 years. I would say that I have a fairly solid base understanding of the language - grammar, vocab, pronunciation, etc. I got this book to pick up my studies again, refresh and practice what I already know, and expand my knowledge. This book is perfect!I would not recommend this book for the absolute beginner with no knowledge of basic vocabulary. You'd likely spend half your time just looking up words to be able to understand the exercises in the activities - even starting in the first section.When I read the table of contents before I bought it I was expecting to just skip the first couple of chapters, assuming the book would be too simplistic. However, I was pleasantly surprised that so far it is great basic review and I've even learned a couple of things in terms of punctuation and capitalization. If one section starts to see overwhelming, I'd recommend jumping around a bit in the book as it doesn't feel exactly like a textbook that goes over the most simplistic items and moves to more difficult. Basics are scattered due to subject matter and how the sections are dividedI would love if the answers to the exercises were bound in a separate book because flipping back and forth is a bit of a pain. However, I do understand that would increase the book cost and it's not a dealbreaker.

it's in the name

If you have no Spanish knowledge I wouldn’t start with this book. It goes straight into Spanish without even teaching the alphabet. I ordered it thinking it would start from the beginning an ended up ordering another book that actually starts with the alphabet so once I finish that I will get into this book.

This book was very easyto brush up your Spanish

This is everything you need to know to move from beginner to intermediate in your spanish proficiency. Just remember to have a way to practice speaking and listening to Spanish separately. This is a great foundation for that knowledge though.

This book has it all. It is big but not overwhelming. The way it is setup makes it really easy to get started. The audio feature is my favorite part. This is a very good book to start learning spanish with.

Whilst this book is thorough, I don’t know how anyone would find it useful. Even the very first chapters require an extensive Spanish vocabulary (that is not supplied in the book, which focuses on grammar) to complete the practice exercises. There are some word lists but they are mainly verbs and adverbs. Who doesn’t know how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense but does have a 5,000 word vocab? Sure, you can look up the different words to complete each practice exercise but that provides no repetition or reinforcement and at that point you might as well just use Google translate.