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The Everything Spanish Verb Book: A Handy Reference for Mastering Verb Conjugation

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Ihad been studying Spanish for a while and basically was getting nowhere. My problem was an elementary one. I wanted to learn to speak flawless Spanish without studying too hard. I bought every book, tape and study guide on the market.And I do mean every book, or so I thought.I had spent thousands. Quite by accident, I picked up this book by Laura Lawless. Hmmm I thought here is one I don't have. It was the best purchase I ever made. In just a few short pages she cleared up the clutter in my brain which was really the source of my problem. I just did not understand verbs. Her book showed me the way, so to speak.Once I understood the purpose of certain words I was able to study. Yes, I said study. I was able to study with a purpose because my understanding had been greatly increased.I am now able, for the first time, to put sentences together without stammering. I am improving to the point where I am able to converse,using complete sentences. I found that ,yes you must do some memorization, but not as much as I feared. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is having the type of trouble I experienced. If you are not having trouble, well, when you get to reflexive verbs and the like, try this book. You will be having trouble without it.
Bill Vanson
NYC

This is a really great reference guide to the conjugation of common Spanish verbs. The first section of this book explains verb conjugation and the different tenses in a very clear and concise way. It made it easier for me to understand the different tenses, and when to use what tense. The second section contains the conjugation of over 250 verbs. And the third section contains a listing of 1,000 more verbs that are conjugated similarly to those in section 2. I use this book quite frequently and keep it handy when I am reading a Spanish magazine. I can quickly see what the author is saying when I come across an unfamiliar verb. Although I do also own the book 501 Spanish Verbs, I find that I always reach for the Everything Spanish Verb Book. It's compact size and clear and concise explanations make it so much easier to use. I highly recommend adding this book to your library of Spanish reference books.

I have been learning Spanish for just over a year and was dreading the time when I would have to start conjugating Spanish verbs, but I purchased the "Everything Spanish Verb Book" and found it would not be as difficult as I first thought.
The book is of a handy size, the introduction to conjugating is laid out in a way that is easy to understand, following this are over 250 verb charts set out for easy reference, and in the appendix another 1000 verbs are listed. I am very happy to have this very useful book.

The Everything Spanish Verb book is a fabulous little tool to carry with you while learning Spanish. It could be characterized as the smaller, less-detailed version of 501 Spanish Verbs. It has all the conjugations and definitions for most popular verbs. I keep it with me for when I run across verbs I'm not familiar with (or that are irregular).

This book is a quick, easy, handy reference and it has been immensely helpful in my effort to learn Spanish.

I just purchased this book, "The Everything Spanish Verb Book" for my Kindle, along with "Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses". Whereas the second book has a searchable table of contents, allowing me to go directly to the subject I am interested in, "The Everything Spanish Verb Book" has NO table of contents, which means that no matter how good the contents are, the only option for a reader on a Kindle is to go through the book page by page, with no idea what is coming next and no way to look anything up. This is fine for a novel but not for a textbook.

While it may be a very good book in print, this will not be easy to use on a Kindle.

A suggestion to Amazon would be to indicate on their Kindle books whether a book is searchable or not because text and educational books need them.

For anybody who has to conjugate a bunch of verbs for their Spanish class, this is a must! It is also great as a quick reference when writing papers, if you want to be certain you got it right.

It is a good book to learn the different forms of a verb and different verb forms. They use one example for all verbs of that form and give a list of verbs in the back of verbs and tell you that it is conjugated like "hablar". A very similar book is 15,000 Spanish Verbs. Unfortunately, I bought both. The better of the two is Everything for 2 reasons. Spanish speakers don't know 15000 verbs and in "Everything" they actually translate the verbs for you, a huge short coming of 15000. If you want to learns verbs by being shown every conjugation of a verb, and all the possible forms for verbs, then get "Everything."