Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary (Practice Makes Perfect) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dorothy Richmond
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6067
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 0071458069
Dewey Decimal Number: 468
EAN: 9780071458061
ASIN: 0071458069
Publication Date: May 17, 2007
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Product Description
Polish your Spanish vocabulary skills Building on the success of her prior book, Practice Makes Perfect: 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 explanations with a plethora of engaging exercises, so you are motivated and hardly notice that you are absorbing so much Spanish. Practice Makes Perfect: 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.
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 Over 400 pages of well-organized vocabulary with some grammar. May 7, 2008
This is an amazingly hefty book. I'm an advanced student of Spanish, so most of the words were familiar to me. Even so, I'm benefiting from the book by filling in gaps in my Spanish lexicon in just about every area of concern. The back of the book says, "This book contains some adult themes." Laugh out loud, I haven't gotten to those yet! A few things were new to me and seemed strange. The author says, "Que es nuevo?" means Whats new? I learned in beginning Spanish to say, Que hay de nuevo? Also, Ms. Richmond says "Nada mucho" means nothing much. I've always said, "No mucho, nada de particular, or nada nuevo," in response to "What's new?". I doubt she's right that those are acceptable usages. I tried them out on my Spanish-speaking friends and they reacted negatively. In spite of these non-idiomatic, literal translation flaws, I'm enjoying this tour de force of a vocabulary book/workbook.
great learning tool March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are the kind of learner (and self-teacher) who LIKES homework then this whole series of books is for you. The Richmonds even throw in odd-ball humor to keep you awake. I really recommend these learning tools.
 Excellent choice for in class teaching lessons... March 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, I have taken an "in class" conversational spanish course which helped to teach me the very basics of spanish, much like we learn in kintergarten and grade one english schools. It is also an essential way to learn how to pronunciate words. Without that, this book would not be helpful to somebody with zero knowledge of the language as it does not come with an audio tape. It has been a good refresher of what i have already learned. I am not all the way through this book yet but so far it has certainly been helpful in understanding all the different small words that make up a sentence structure as well as understanding dipthongs (the little accents over letters) and all the small things that tend to get overlooked in a fast track "in class" learning method.
All of which are incredibly important if you REALLY want to understand the structure of the language, learn properly and converse fluenlty. This is a great book at a great price, which just goes top prove that you don't always have to dish out tons of cash to get something that works well! Buena suerte!! :):):)
Spanish Instructor's Video Review of PMP Spanish Vocabulary January 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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Excellent Resource December 26, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After taking a basic course, I found this to be an excellent review. The author has written several "Practice Makes Perfect" books, all of which I find to be excellent.
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