The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice w/CD-ROM (Uitimate Review and Reference Series)

by Ronni L Gordon, David M Stillman

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Review + Practice = Confident Communication in Spanish!

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, CD-ROM Edition, will transform the way you look at Spanish grammar--from a set of easily forgotten rules into stepping stones toward accurate and confident communication. Combining concise review with extensive practice, this book provides the ultimate way to polish your Spanish language skills.

Organized into 28 lessons, The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice offers:

Clear, concise explanations of all the grammar topics, illustrated from examples from everyday life
More than 400 exercises with Answer Key to help you master Spanish grammar and vocabulary
Vocabulary boxes providing the terms and expressions that will enhance your ability to express yourself

Exclusively on the CD-ROM

An innovative program of audio exercises that re-create authentic situations and develop listening skills
Diagnostic and Review Tests with 180 exercises to determine your skills and monitor your progress
200 varied and challenging exercises that cover all aspects of grammar

System requirements: PC only: Windows 2000, XP

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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Book Is What It Is and more, 2009-01-06
The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice is a great book for not only reviewing Spanish but also learning it, if you already have some exposure to the language.

My family lived in Spain for 3 years in the late 70s while was a teenager. During that time I was close to fluent but we left before I could really get to be. Coming back to the states I did not bother keeping up with my Spanish so I quickly forgot what I learned.

Now however being in my mid 40s I decided to take up Spanish and learn it again.

Most of the beginning grammars were just to short and simple so I avoided them. I wanted one comprehensive book that I could use that had all the grammar I would need to gain fluency and this is the book.

Its chapters are short with excellent organization and explanation. You will not be bothered with tons of funny but useless pictures and diagrams. They authors use bullet points, tables and lists very well, so the info in presented in a way that is easy to learn. The test questions are also very good: challenging but not impossible.

Like the other reviewers said beware if you are a beginning Spanish user. The book assumes you know some Spanish. The directions for the exercises are written in Spanish and the exercises are not progressive. For example the first chapter deals with the present tense and does a great job of showing how normal and irregular verbs are conjugated and how the present tense is used. However, to do the exercises you will need to know other areas of grammar like definite and indefinite articles, adjectives and adverbs as well have a working vocabulary. With out these you be running to a dictionary all the time or just be stumped. Even with my Spanish background I had a hard time reading the directions and had an online dictionary open all the time while I did the exercises. I did not mind this but some may get frustrated if you have not been previously exposed to the grammar and vocabulary. Beginners will most likely be totally lost.

A great book, just wish the version I had came with a CD.

Jeff Sulman

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, 2008-12-17
This was a nice wasy to study. I mostly used the software included with the book. It was nice because I could take the tests and practice and the computer graded my work and let me know how I was doing.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

Yes and no, 2008-12-06
Liked: Answers to the exercises at the back of the book.
Disliked: CD-ROM wasn't fully functional in my Vista setup.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, 2008-04-07
My wife and I retired to Mexico. Neither of us spoke much Spanish so we decided to take lessons. Our instructor mentioned that "The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice" was the best instructional book in Spanish that we could get..but it was not available in Mexico. He had one copy that he shared with the 6 people in our class and I could probably say, with his other classes. My wife and I wondered if Amazon would have this book...and they did. Now, our class has two books to share...and probably soon, a couple more. With Hector's instructions and using the "Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice", my wife and I can converse much better with our neighbors (who speak no English) and fit in to our new invironment. The book clarifies many of the questions that we students ask in our class and clarifies many of the non asked questions people learning a new language fight their way through. I recommend the book...and recommend the service we received from Amazon (Mail does not move quickly in Mexico...so we were very pleasantly surprised when the book arrived almost a week ahead of the time estimated by Amazaon).

Thank you Amazon.com

Carlos y Sharon Garrison, Mazatlan, Mexico

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2 out of 5 stars

Watch the computer requirements, 2008-04-01
The book looks just fine, but be sure to notice that the CD is MS Windows-only. Oops.

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