501 Spanish Verbs, Tenth Edition (Paperback or Softback)

This is an excellent book. The book contains the full conjugation table of 501 model verbs. In addition, it provides (a) some quick comments for their meaning(s) and use and (b) synonyms and antonyms for the model verbs. At the end, the book contains an index of many more Spanish verbs so you can associate each verb with the right conjugation table. In fact, the index is Spanish-English, meaning that it also gives you the translation of the Spanish verb. And, in fact, the book provides an English-Spanish index too. That is, if you know an English verb and you are looking for its Spanish counterpart, this index will help you translate it and send you to the right conjugation table. Of course, you should not expect that the two indices contain all possible verbs; they contain just the most used verbs in Spanish and English. Besides the conjugation tables, on pages 1 to 58 the book contains a quick review of grammar related to verbs. I am not very enthusiastic about this part. I believe that it could have been written much better but I am willing to forgive the authors since this just an extra and the strength of the book is the conjugation tables. The production of the book is on decent quality of paper. Although not on the most expensive paper, it is not printed on the cheapest paper either. That is, the paper is not the cheap mass-production paper that you will encounter in most dictionaries. Also, the size of the fonts is big and you do not need any effort to read it. Finally, the text is printed in two colors (black and blue) and not just black which would be very boring.

Great book!!!! I recommend for those trying to learn Spanish on there own to purchase this! It helps sooooo much!

This book has every conjugation of the listed verbs in an alphabetical presentation. I find it an indispensable resource as I learn to speak Spanish.

As a gringo living in a Spanish-speaking country, and having locals in my home every day, I am referring to this book at least four or five times a week. If not more. Time and time again, I've needed to turn to it in order to get a particular tense for a particular verb. As I commit some things to memory, there's always a new verb to master. It makes my life as a new resident of a country speaking a different language far easier.

If you are a college student or professional familiar with English grammar and the terminology used to describe various verb tenses, and if your goal is to be able to write in Spanish using correct grammatical forms, this book would be useful. (Is "would be useful" the conditional tense?). In other words, if you have time to sit down with it at length and create study notes on the content, then it's perfect. I don't think this book will help travelers. It's big, heavy, and complicated. It takes time and thought to work through. Try Google Translate! If you simply want to be able to communicate in conversation, trying to learn by memorizing verb forms is not as natural a method as learning through conversation or from a language learning novel. Some of us go our whole lives perfectly fluent in our own language without ever learning grammatical rules. The only time knowing what to call the rules is useful that I can think of (instead of just using them the same way everyone else does) is when you want to compare two or more languages. I find this book incredibly annoying.

Exactly what I was looking for to nail the tricky Spanish conjugations. Easy and clear book to navigate.

This was recommended in a study group. It is essential. very well laid out. Good for both beginner and advanced student.

This is the 10th edition of the book. The first one I bought was the 5th edition. This edition continues as an excellent resource for the most used Spanish verbs. It also has an excellent section on Spanish grammar which is very easy to understand. I teach beginning Spanish classes and use this book a lot. I also recommend it to all my students. Add this to your Spanish library or buy it to begin learning Spanish.