Product Description

A fun, comprehensive way to get up to speed on Spanish

With over 325 million speakers, Spanish is in a virtual dead heat with English as the second most popular spoken language. This easy-to-follow guide shows readers how to successfully conjugate verbs, providing easy, entertaining exercises and answer keys to reinforce different grammatical rules. More than just a dictionary-style list of verbs, Spanish Verbs For Dummies covers regular verbs in the present tense and six other simple tenses, interrogatives and imperatives, irregular verbs in all seven tenses, and Spanish verb nuances.

Mary Kraynak, MA (Indianapolis, IN), teaches Spanish to junior high and high school students and has served as a technical consultant to several Spanish learning guides.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139513 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780471768722
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From the Back Cover
Get the hang of Spanish verbs and get over verb hang-ups!

With 14 tenses, six conjugations, and a lot of irregularities, Spanish verbs are pretty much out to get you. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and regulations and drill you on the most common exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, conjugation charts, and plenty of exercises — just what you need to master even the toughest Spanish verbs.

Discover how to:

• Review regular verbs in the present tense
• Cope with common exceptions
• Conjugate all simple tenses, from preterit to imperfect subjunctive
• Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs
• Conjugate compound tenses with the verb haber

About the Author
While some people get revved up at car races and others ride the wild waves of the stock market, Mary Kraynak (Indianapolis, IN) enjoys traveling to Spanish-speaking countries, chatting it up with complete strangers, and haggling with the local merchants. Mary earned her Bachelor's degree in Spanish and secondary education at Purdue University, and continued on at Purdue to get her Master's degree in Spanish literature. Twenty-five years later, she continues to teach Spanish to junior high and high school students, and has served as a technical consultant on several Spanish learning guides, including Teach Yourself Spanish in 24 Hours and Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.

Customer Reviews

Lessons have translations for everything
I particularly like this book because every excercise provides both the correct spanish answer and the english translation. Many books don't do that - and you are left to make assumptions as to the exact meaning of certain phrases or context.

The book is easy to work on, you can move quickly from lesson to lesson, and the tips are quite helpful. But above all, those translations are what sets this book apart from many others.