Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation, Premium Second Edition 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

The media could not be loaded.  Spanish Conversation is a book that will really help you to speak conversational Spanish. This book is filled with practical, everyday dialogues. You will learn Spanish words and phrases for real-life situations, such as:- Meeting at a Party- Expressing Your Opinions, Likes and Dislikes- Striking Up a Conversation- Making appointments and Informal Dates- Discussing Roommates- Narrating a Story About a Traffic Accident- Retelling a conversation that took place between a mother and a kindergarten teacherAnother benefit about this book is that it has a ton of exercises to help reinforce the new Spanish words and phrases that I learned from the dialogs. Each of the book’s 12 chapters include between 10 and 12 exercises.What did I like most about this book? Well, the Spanish that I learned was very practical. Many books teach Spanish that you’ll never use in a real-life situation. But this book taught me conversational Spanish - really useful Spanish - that I can use in typical, everyday situations when speaking to Spanish-speaking friends or acquaintances.After using this book, I can assure you that you’ll find yourself speaking Spanish with greater confidence and speaking the language more spontaneously.There is even an online section that will allow you to listen and improve your comprehension of spoken Spanish while also improving your pronunciation. It is one thing to read a conversation in Spanish but being able to actually listen to it in order to improve your listening comprehension is a completely different animal.If you have any questions about Practice Makes Perfect’s Spanish Conversation, please post your questions below and I will do my best to answer your questions.In closing, I’ll leave you with the 3 learning-Spanish resources which are currently my favorites. (My list of favorites changes from time to time so you may want to check my list periodically.):1.  Learn Beginner Spanish: Lessons 1 to 5 from Both Original Version & New Version of Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Including Two Bonus Lessons from New Millennium Spanish . What stands out most about this program is the style of teaching used. The teaching style is very reciprocal or mutually dependent on the instructor and the student. This allows the student to not only listen but also to participate. But what appeals to me the most is that there are two bonus audio lessons included from their New Millennium Beginner Spanish program which teaches Spanish vocabulary for social media, the Web, modern technology, life styles for this millennium. Such as, eating organic food, living abroad and working as a digital nomad, and working out at a cross-fit or MMA gym. Learn Beginner Spanish also works wonders for developing an authentic sounding accent.2.  501 Spanish Verbs (501 Verb Series) . If you think you can accomplish fluency in Spanish as an adult without mastering conjugating Spanish verbs, you are only fooling yourself. This book is an absolute essential resource for learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs. It will show you how to conjugate every Spanish verb tense imaginable. The version I have also includes a bonus CD which teaches both regular verbs and irregular verbs.3.  Learn Basic Spanish with Fast Lane Spanish: Get in the Learning Spanish Fast Lane  - This is from the same publisher that created Learn Beginner Spanish. What I love about this audio program besides the fact that they use the same teaching style found in Learn Beginner Spanish which includes native Spanish-speaking actors to help you get an authentic accent, this program does a great job of teaching Spanish pronouns and prepositions in a natural way. Most programs seem to skip over this topic and only focus on conjugating Spanish verbs. I am also impressed with Learn Basic Spanish's bonus package which allows you to attend a free, live, interactive monthly Webinar taught by a Spanish teacher from Colombia.

This book would be frustrating for a beginning learner. It shines in teaching turns of phrases "Claro", "Mira", "Cuanto Antes", "Todo Lo Contrario." But its teaching section at the beginning of the chapter is often lacking - Chapter 5 doesn't have any info on comparisons like "más de" and "más que", but there are exercises on it. There are also grammar reviews of tenses that are assumed knowledge, not taught.Overall, I appreciate the exercises in here, and I have learned from using this book. However, it isn't tightly organized like Spanish Verb Tenses is (that book by this same publisher is amazing), and its more like a mediocre self-study than an organized teaching tool. Some of the exercises say "Expess...Ask a Spanish-speaking friend if you have done it correctly."Other exercises were similarly meaningless, like being asked to do simple grammar reviews in the middle of an intermediate book with what should be a focus on conversational colloquialisms. If soy/estoy weren't reviewed in the chapter's beginning notes, why am I doing simple exercises on them in a space that could be used to get me to practice usage of new Spanish vocabulary phrases? I'll still do those exercises, but it felt like the book got off track when it had exercises not remotely related to or reviewed in the beginning section of that chapter.Also, there was a lot of simple matching/fill-in-the-blank, but I felt like there could have been more translation activities from English-to-Spanish to solidify the concepts learned. Give us a prompt of a conversation, and have us turn it into "Que tal? Claro. Me encantaría te visitar el jueves. De verdad? Adiós!" That was lacking in this book, and the exercises were lighter than they could have ideally been in getting us to actively practice these ideas. This guided translation practicing would also be more useful than "Have a Spanish friend teach you the material, because we don't feel like having an answer key" exercises that lacked direction.

Usually a great series of books. However, with the kindle version on a tablet - much of the text is too small to read are cannot be enlarged as it is within diagrams (not simple text). I have not read the book since purchase.

Great tool for practicing and learning

Very useful book

Superb book filled with excellent examples and exercises.

Perfect book. Excellent seller and will use again.