501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris Ph.D., Theodore Kendris
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- Pub. Date: January 2007
- 736pp
- Sales Rank: 1,746
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 2007
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
- Format: Other Format, 736pp
- Sales Rank: 1,746
- Series: 501 Verbs Series
- ISBN-13: 9780764179846
- ISBN: 0764179845
- Edition Number: 6
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Barron's is today and always has been the Number-One reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, the all-time best selling 501 Spanish Verbs beats all less well-established rivals with its brand-new 6th edition. It's printed in two colors, it features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and it comes with extra help for Spanish language students in the form of a CD-ROM. The book presents the most important and most commonly used Spanish verbs arranged alphabetically with English translations in chart form, one verb per page, and conjugated in all persons and tenses, both active and passive. The accompanying CD-ROM gives students practice exercises in verb conjugation plus a concise grammar review. This combined book and software package is a comprehensive guide to Spanish verb usage with a wealth of reference material and language tips, including a bilingual list of more than 1,250 additional Spanish verbs, helpful expressions and idioms for travelers, and verb drills and short tests with all questions answered and explained.
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Biography
Dr. Christopher Kendris, an accomplished linguist, has worked as an interpreter and translator for the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Paris. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and diplomas with Mention très Honorable at the Université de Paris (en Sorbonne), Faculté des Lettres École Supérieure de Préparation et de Perfectionnement des Professeurs de Français à l'Étranger, and at the Institut de Phonétique, Paris. He is former Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages and Supervisor of 16 foreign language teachers at Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale, NY, and has taught foreign language courses at various colleges and universities.
Dr. Theodore Kendris earned his Ph.D. at Université Laval, Quebec City. He has taught in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois as well as at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University. Dr. Kendris is the author of Inglés completo: Repaso integral de gramática inglesa para hispanohablantes, published by Barron's He is coauthor of Spanish Fundamentals and Spanish Verb Conjugations, also published by Barron's.
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501 Spanish Verbosby Red_Boots
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June 01, 2009: I have been using this series since I discovered it about 1989. This is the best edition yet. The basic and very good premises of the early version remain while the book is updated with a CD, color sections and more tools. The key to learning this material is to spend 20-20 minutes every day with the introduction section until you fully understand the underlying grammar. After that, the subsequent verbs listings makes considerable sense. Spanish verbs are conjugated so differently from English verbs that it is difficult to learn all of the verb forms from a standard dictionary. This book, coupled with a competent Spansh/English dictionary can help anyone improve their Spanish skills. Actually, most of us don't learn the grammar of our own language until the study of a second or third language forces us to learn it. This is an excellent book and I recommend it often. I have used it in teaching Spanish and in doing so, I saved my students the difficulties that I faced learning verbs. The section on the Spanish verb Haber (to have as a helping verb) should be learned by memory and then by understanding. Ser, Estar, and Haber are the verbs no speaker of Spanish can live without.
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October 28, 2007: This book made me tense. Ha ha! Ok, just kidding. All I can say is wow! If 501 Spanish Verbs isn?t in your library, buy it immediately and place it right next to Learning Spanish Like Crazy as one of your top resources. Conjugations? Yeah, this book has them - one per page in alphabetical order including all persons and tenses along with definitions and examples of usage. Everything is laid out in a simple, clean, and easily referenced manner. There?s even a CD ROM with practice exercises to help you polish up. Buy 501 Spanish Verbs and become a conjugating machine. Follow it with the Learning Spanish Like Crazy CD course, and you?ll be able to speak Spanish with the best of them!
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