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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 2nd edition (June 17, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1260463133
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1260463132
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches

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Natural Ethics

Amazing book to learn Spanish fluently

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024

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I’m only on 1-4 pages and I’m loving it already. Book came in good shape, brand new! I love how it has fundamentals and challenges you as you move along on your journey . I’m doing part time Spanish classes with a Spanish teacher so this helps push me to continue to learn it fluently ! I also adore the question page in the back, I always challenge myself and then I go in the back to see if my answers were correct or not. The back also has a verb glossary with its definitions so this book is highly recommended and I am so great ful to be able to come across this book! Thanks again !

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CLM

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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I am a beginner Spanish learner, and started my journey with the Babbel app. Within two weeks, I realized that the app is not enough so I ordered this book. I’m grasping concepts and learning much faster than I was just using the Babbel app and I’m so happy I got this book. It’s really great.

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Telerush

You WON'T find a better Spanish textbook anywhere!

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2022

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First of all, let me advise you to buy THIS copy which contains the beginner AND advanced together--instead of the books separately. It's a great value and each one has its benefits. The beginner book is a great foundation and starts with the nuts and bolts. Granted, some reviewers claim it's not designed for a 100% beginner, but I think it's fine as long as you have a dictionary and online translator. The advanced book takes things a step farther. Some of the lessons may appear, at first, to be repeats of the beginner book. But they're not. They fill in the gaps and expand on the same topic. For example, the beginner book will cover the difference between ESTAR and SER. But the advanced will cover these two verbs in the past tense and imperfect tense. As another example, the beginner book will introduce you to the multi-purpose word QUE. But the advanced will expand it with LO QUE, EL/LOS QUE, LA/LAS QUE. Again, it's very well-designed and the progression is logical. I found myself many times wondering about a certain confusing idea...only to find it discussed in the next paragraph.

The feel of the book is clean and solid. The font is very easy on the eyes. The organization of titles and subtitles makes it easy to reference back to certain topics at a later date. You can also look up key words or topics in the index. They could have allowed for more space in the areas where you write your answers in, but that's not a big deal. I just wrote smaller and extended my answers to beneath the lines.

Before this book, I purchased the yellow Madrigal one that people rave about on YouTube. Honestly I was disappointed and stopped using it after just 2 days. This book blows it out of the water. I know this sounds nerdy but I found myself having a hard time putting it down. I don't feel like it's a chore to work through the exercises. At no point did I ever find it either too easy or too difficult. I was continually learning. If something was a review for me, it actually explained the idea better than I was previously taught on "Duo".

After just 7 months, I scored a B2 (upper intermediate) on the DELE language placement exam. I feel like my written Spanish is very good and I can read most things--only being limited by vocabulary. This book has helped me "lift off". At this point, all I need to do is immerse myself more in the spoken language and put into practice what I've learned. There's really not much more that a book can teach you. I highly recommend it!

PROS:
-Feels solid in hands, with clean pages and font
-Covers EVERYTHING (verbs, nouns, adjectives, articles, pronouns, dates/times, numbers, etc.)
-No typos that I've discovered
-LOTS of practice exercises (with answers in back)
-Logical progression of topics
-Each chapter has Reading Comprehension section at end which builds your skills
-Includes common idioms in the back of book
-Separates the "vosotros" form so that you can skip over it if you don't live in Spain
-Effective at showing difference between formal/usted and informal/tu.

CONS:
-The phone app included is not useful and seems poorly designed
-Space for writing answers can be too small in certain exercises
-Translations are included for Spanish sentences in the lessons but NOT for exercises

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Silvercrest

Good balance between reference and practice

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023

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Excellent coverage of the topics necessary to master Spanish language. Structurally focused on verbs, their tenses and conjugations interspersed with other parts of speech and some vocabulary development. The exercises and reading practice do reflect the reference material presented. However this book is not sufficient by itself. It needs to be supplemented with pronunciation practice, substitution drills, topical dialog, vocabulary development and more reading exercises.
The book deals with each topic to the same uniform level of detail regardless of the learning difficulty of the topic. For example the topic of indirect objects and relexive verbs receives about the same level of scrutiny as say the topic of present subjunctive. But even the author recognizes the difficulty of objects and reflexive verbs and encourages the student to not continue until thoroughly mastered. So one could evaluate this book as tradeoff between reference and practice.
There is also some online material provided by the publisher in conjuction with this book and others they offer. Its useful but not that impressive.

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Jim Stanford

Excellent Resource

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024

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While I had the extreme basics of Spanish in junior high school over 60 years ago (yes, I am old), this is a well laid out and well thought out reference and tutorial. I like both the written and oral exercises and I especially like the online resources. The flash cards in quiz format make me really think before I answer and so far that, along with the written and audio information, has proven quite useful in learning Spanish. I highly recommend this book in particular as it contains lots of written AND spoken exercises to help you learn the language.

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LL Massachusetts

Excellent book for beginners

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024

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Easy to follow studying guide, good short stories for reading. I bought several book before to study Spanish, this is the most impressive book I ‘v ever have.

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Alexa C.

Very Thorough Spanish Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2024

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Great book with step-by-step instructions for learning Spanish. The online resource and app provide a lot of additional resources that support the book.

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Chris Kent

It includes a free App tutor.

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

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This really helped me. I started out just reading the book. That was tough! Then I saw on the inside cover that it included the free mobile app or laptop/computer app. This made the lessons fly. Including the ability to compare your accent and pronunciation to a native Spanish person. I'm going to love this book with the app. Your very best value to learn Spanish in general.

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carol hendrickson

Complete Spanish

Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2024

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An excellent reference book with lots of exercises. Great for all levels

David McVey

Delete Duolingo and buy this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2024

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My Spanish learning journey has seen me go use various apps and watch lots of different you tube channels. Although I was putting in the time I never really felt like I was progressing.

I bought this book and now I am starting to see my progress. It gives your learning some structure, each lesson building on from the last. I wish I had started with this book, as I am convinced I would be much further along than I am now.

This book is now at the core of my studying. I use Pimslur and watch some you tube channels to compliment my learning but this book is what's given me the confidence that my hours spent studying may not be in vain after all.

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Poorvi

This book is definitely worth buying!

Reviewed in India on June 21, 2023

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Complete Spanish Step-by-Step is basically 2 books in 1 i.e. Easy Spanish Step-by-Step + Advanced Spanish Step-by-Step.

Each chapter contains clear grammar and vocabulary explanations. There are vocabulary lists, complete verb conjugations. There is reading comprehension as well. There are many written and oral exercises for better understanding. This book has complete answer key in the back.

This book is divided into 6 parts –

The first gives you all the fundamentals of the language in the present tense.

The second part explains indirect objects, direct objects, direct object pronouns, reflexive verbs, and the present subjunctive.

The third part presents the two most used tenses in the past, the preterit and the imperfect.

The fourth part reviews the present tense and uses of 'ser' and 'estar', the preterit and imperfect tenses, the progressive tenses, the present subjunctive, and commands.

The fifth part is an in-depth explanation of nouns, articles, adjectives, pronouns, and the present and past perfect tenses.

The sixth part covers the future and conditional tenses, the past subjunctive, and idioms.

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Fhina Basbair

Well explained! || Super erklärt!

Reviewed in Germany on April 29, 2023

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Purchased this book to review things I have already learned and refresh my knowledge. The later chapters (from 15 and beyond) will partly also cover new topics for me.

I love how the book is built the explanations for each topic. Despite many things being known to me, they still shed some new light onto them. It’s also interesting that this book mainly focuses on the Latin American Spanish, so I will also learn some new vocabulary as so far I’ve been only focusing on the European Spanish.

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Hab mir dieses Buch zum Wiederholen und Üben bereits gelernter Themen gekauft. Die Themen der hinteren Kapitel (ca. ab 15) sind auch teilweise noch neu für mich.

Ich finde den Aufbau und die Erklärungen super und manche Dinge werden auch noch einmal anders/besser erklärt. Finde es auch cool, dass das Buch auf das Lateinamerikanische Spanisch ausgelegt ist, so lernt man nochmal neue Wörter.