Product Description

Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.

• Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
• Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
• Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
• Delivers expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
• Perfect for last-minute test preparation
• So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #400078 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-28
• Format: Abridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780070527164
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From the Back Cover
When you don't have the time...but you still need the grade!

If your life is too busy to spend hours pouring over weighty textbooks, and you need every study minute to count, this Schaum's Easy Outline is perfect for you!

This super-condensed, high-torque study guide gives you what you need to know in a fraction of the time.

Super-Impact­­Built for quick, effective study, this Easy Outline packs exciting new learning tools that make mastering Spanish fast, fun and almost automatic.

Speedy­­Quick-stud experts slashed the time you need to spend with your books by reducing Spanish to the essentials the professor expects you to know.

This Easy Outline is perfect for test preparation, pre-exam review, and handling those last-minute cram situations.

Hi-Quality­­Easy Outlines give you 100% of the authority of Schaum's full-sized guides, known around the world for the highest academic standards.

Backpack-Able Study Power­­Compact and portable, this Easy Outline lets you study Spanish anywhere.

Schaum's Gets the Grade! Let's talk bottom line. Schaum's Easy Outline of Spanish helps you master Spanish with plenty of illustrations, memory joggers, and the newest, rapid-absorption teaching techniques.

Backed by Schaum's reputation for academic authority, this is the study guide students turn to and trust. Students knows that Schaum's is going to be there for them when they need it!

About the Author
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McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Customer Reviews

Fantastic! Why didn't I find this book sooner?
I have been studying Spanish for 5 years now, and am currently teaching Spanish at the high school level. Although I am married to a native-speaker of Spanish and speak only Spanish in the home, I remained unsure of my usage, especially concerning certain verb tenses such as the conditional and the subjunctive.

I already own and have read a wide collection of Spanish grammar and reference books. Unlike the large, comprehensive volumes the serious language learner inevitably acquires, this book provides short, concise explanations which one is unlikely to forget.

Being relatively new to the teaching profession, Schaum's Easy Outline for Spanish has also helped me enormously in the classroom.

As the publishers promise, the reader does "get the essence the easy way".

Don't expect to learn Spanish with this book!
This is the worst type of Spanish "easy-learn" books. It is nothing more than a list of nouns, adjectives and verbs. There are "charts" which are simply more lists. This is like studying a bunch of rules that mean nothing because they are never connected to anything real. Languages are not a series of interchangeable parts. A good review book gives you plenty of exercises using real questions, answers, and ways to help you actually know the material. Buy something like Amsco book 1,2, or 3 with the answer keys if you want a good practice workbook. Don't waste your money on this one!!

Great!
I love this book! It puts Spanish grammar in straight forward, simple terms and allows you to quickly see the essentials of what you need to know. I wouldn't say that it's a good book to learn directly from as it seems to expect you to already know basically what they're talking about, but if you are a Spanish student this is a wonderful reference book. Useful for all levels, covers anything you'd ever want to know grammar wise - I couldn't have survived Spanish class without it.