Painless English for Speakers of a Foreign Language (Barron's Painless)

I bought this book for an acquaintance whose first language is Spanish, but who speaks limited English. I returned the book immediately on seeing that the book had much useless and confusing trivia and precious little useful content.It was not even correct on some of the simple grammar it did cover. I was especially annoyed that it relies heavily on the use of websites. Anyone can produce a list of websites. As an example of totally inadequate coverage I could mention the English continuous tenses which are such an important feature of the language. I bought another book through Amazon which is excellent. This book however is a total waste of money.

Most of the chapters in this book are quite comprehensible to English learners who used to cope with stilted and dull English at school. You were very poor at English at school? - Never mind! You still have a lot of opportunities to get ahead if you want to go over what you have learned. I'd like you to master at least Part1 in advance if you are going to English-speaking countries. And why don't you deal with Painless Spelling as well? I'm sure you'll deepen your understanding of English! Your hard work is sure to pay off unless you give up your language skill to the end!
Especially in Chapter 11, the author explains how to cope with the English logic, which you have never learned at school. I must admit that this is the most difficult part in this book. But you can't get your point across to English-speaking people without catching the logic. That's why Painless English for Speakers of Other Languages is indispensable to Non-native speakers of English!