Spanish Verbs Skill Builder: The Conversational Verb Program (Living Language Series) [Audio Cassette]

Marcel Danesi (Author)

Book Description

Series: Living Language Series | Publication Date: July 12, 1999

Living Language Skill Builder: Spanish Verbs
Master all the tenses and speak fluently!

Award-Winning Audio/Book Program

Unique conversational approach makes learning  easy and effective

Learn at home  and on the go

Four 60-minute cassettes
352-page lesson/reference book

Previously published as Spanish 2

An Effective Conversational Approach to Verbs

If you've already learned the basics of Spanish and you want to become more fluent, the Spanish Verbs Skill Builder from Living Language® is the perfect course for you. With this unique, award-winning program, you'll master Spanish verbs and improve your conversational skills quickly, easily, and thoroughly.

Other verb reference guides feature verb conjugation tables alone and give you no opportunity to hear these verbs in conversation. But  Spanish Verbs Skill Builder  is both a complete reference and a practical course that will teach you how to use Spanish verbs.  

CONVERSATION AND VERB REFERENCE COMBINED IN ONE COURSE

40 lessons on four 60-minute cassettes teach verbs and conversation
Complete conjugations of more than 150 regular and irregular verbs
Realistic phrases, expressions, and conversations to illustrate usage
Interactive quizzes to review and reinforce what you've learned
Complete grammar summary and glossary of grammatical terms

The Spanish Verbs Skill Builder is the ideal companion to the Spanish: Complete Course, Ultimate Spanish, and All-Audio Spanish, all from Living Language.

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Living Language Skill Builder: Spanish Verbs
Master all the tenses and speak fluently!

Award-Winning Audio/Book Program

Unique conversational approach makes learning  easy and effective

Learn at home  and on the go

Four 60-minute cassettes
352-page lesson/reference book

Previously published as Spanish 2

An Effective Conversational Approach to Verbs

If you've already learned the basics of Spanish and you want to become more fluent, the Spanish Verbs Skill Builder from Living Language® is the perfect course for you. With this unique, award-winning program, you'll master Spanish verbs and improve your conversational skills quickly, easily, and thoroughly.

Other verb reference guides feature verb conjugation tables alone and give you no opportunity to hear these verbs in conversation. But  Spanish Verbs Skill Builder  is both a complete reference and a practical course that will teach you how to use Spanish verbs.  

CONVERSATION AND VERB REFERENCE COMBINED IN ONE COURSE

40 lessons on four 60-minute cassettes teach verbs and conversation
Complete conjugations of more than 150 regular and irregular verbs
Realistic phrases, expressions, and conversations to illustrate usage
Interactive quizzes to review and reinforce what you've learned
Complete grammar summary and glossary of grammatical terms

The Spanish Verbs Skill Builder is the ideal companion to the Spanish: Complete Course, Ultimate Spanish, and All-Audio Spanish, all from Living Language.

From the Back Cover

"Outstanding resource for the busy individual . . . excellent grammatical content and organization."        - Prof. Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville

"Best Foreign Language Audio."        -Publishers Weekly

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Living Language; Book and Cassette edition (July 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609604449
• ISBN-13: 978-0609604441
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.6 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #992,553 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for Intermediate/Advanced Review, September 1, 2000

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This review is from: Spanish Verbs Skill Builder: The Conversational Verb Program (Living Language Series) (Audio Cassette)

I loved this set so much, I bought it twice. The first time it was actually stolen from my car. I was thinking I might try something else, but I ended up purchasing this set again, and I'm glad I did. I have 4+ years of Spanish instruction and can't seem to get past proficiency to the fluency level. My major problem is conjugating verbs quickly (along with vocab). This set really reviewed all the tenses, slowly and quickly to get me to conjugate quickly. It uses the vosotros form--which is new to me. It doesn't introduce a lot of new vocab, however. I wish it did, but then again the set itself never claimed that vocabulary would be their emphasis.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for review or for Beginners!, August 7, 2001

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Cara Pohl (Sewell, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spanish Verbs Skill Builder: The Conversational Verb Program (Living Language Series) (Audio Cassette)

I absolutely loved this set. I've tried other cassettes before, but none I ever tried were quite what I was looking for. Most tapes I've come across were mainly focused on teaching phrases, but they did not fully explain all the different conjugations of the verbs. This set explains them in an easy way, and the lessons are good. I have had Spanish in highschool and some in college, and the primary problem I've had was remembering all the verb tenses. It gave me a wonderful review of the language. This set is also good for people who want to begin to learn Spanish. There is English on this tape, but you are still able to develop a decent amount of listening skills. However, it will not help someone build an extensive vocabulary. What it will do is teach the basic foundations of the language, which is important to learning a language fluently. If you buy a Spanish/English dictionary there really should be no problem. Anyone who is beginning or just wants to brush up their Spanish should have this set!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I was spoiled by Pimsleur, December 31, 2001

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William Cely (Seal Rock, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanish Verbs Skill Builder: The Conversational Verb Program (Living Language Series) (Audio Cassette)

After finishing Pimsleur Spanish I and Spanish II (the gold standard for language learning), I thought I would take a break and build more verb vocabulary before begining Pimsleur III. I am being generous with two stars. The main instructor on the tape is also the main Spanish speaker and is a non-native speaker with rapid, pressured speech and everything is said dramatically. The male native speaker I swear is a Hispanic Bella Lagosi, his voice has so much bass it is difficult to understand. These tapes are definiteley low budget. "Master All the Tenses and Speake Fluently" all in four tapes! I should have known better. I am now on Pimsleur III. I think Marcel Danesi needs to listen to them and see how it is done. The idea of verb vocab building is a great idea but this isn't it.