Schaum's Easy Outline: Spanish

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.

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!!

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".