Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar

Practice Makes Perfect is good but being a beginner found it a little difficult to follow and understand all workbook assignment short quizes. The intermediate student would have no problem.

This has been a great book for me. I have some knowledge of Spanish but I need to learn much more. The book is written at the right level for me. I have some knowledge and a basic vocabulary. The book provides a good review of various points of Spanish Grammar. I find the exercises really help but I have to actually do the exercises for the material to sink in. I like the translation exercises.

I have found a few minor errors in the answer section as a previous reviewer noted but nothing major so far. (e.g. making a word plural when it was singluar in the question.)

While I realize there have to be limits, I do wish the book had more questions and exercises. The more I do the better I become.

This is a good supplement for other text books. The explanations are concise and to the point. This book is a good reference book.

I give this book 3 stars simply because it is a crash course in many of the topics that give learners of Spanish a hard time. It is very little information about a whole lot of subjects, but as with the other books in the series it does do a fantastic job given the crammed feeling of the book. I would recommend this book only after completing the other three titles in the series, or as a refresher course. There is simply too much information in this text and it is not covered as thoroughly as I would have liked for me to give it a higher rating. This text is not for the truly beginner Spanish student.

This book is great, however it is not for an absolute beginner. One needs to have some vacabulary and some knowledge of grammar. It's great for grammar review and for someone who already speaks spanish but needs to brush up on skills. Also the book contains plenty of exercises with correct answers at the end of the book, so you can check your progress. In addition to just checking the grammar, some exercises involve translation.

Do not buy this book unless your spanish level is at least at lower intermediate level.

The structure of the book is a bit different from the books I am used to: It starts not with nouns, adjectives, numbers and prepositions, as most of the books do, but from learning the spanish tenses: present, preterit, imperfect, future, subjunctive. At the end, the book goes into nouns, prepositions, etc.

As a new learner of Spanish I found this book difficult to use because the vocabulary used in the examples and grammar exercises was unfamiliar. Once I learned enough vocabulary, the book became very useful in explaining, practicing and enforcing what I had learned. I recommend this book only if you already know some Spanish.