Richmond - Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses

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Audio Answer Key Answers to all exercises are available online in audio + text format. Spoken by native Spanish speakers, the 2 hours of recordings provide a convenient way to improve your Spanish pronunciation and listening comprehension as you check your answers. 1.

Select the LANGUAGES menu option at mhprofessional.com. 2. Launch the Audio Study Player. (You may need to enable pop-ups within your browser.) 3. Locate the answer key under: Spanish > Practice Makes Perfect > Spanish Verb Tenses (Parts I, II, and III) 4. Select the required chapter, then click on the appropriate exercise in the playlist.

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It is an enormous honor to have a textbook go into its second edition, because it means that the book has done its intended job well. Thus, my first thanks go to the many students who made such extensive use of the first edition that this second edition was needed. I would be remiss not to acknowledge again those persons who were instrumental in the preparation of the first edition: Gilmore T. Schjeldahl, Lola Lorenzo, Joe Thurston, Curt Roy, Mary Monn, Karen Muller, Carlos Badessich, Susana Blanco Iglesias, Tim Rogus, and Elizabeth Milln.

The contributions that they made several years ago live on and continue to inspire countless studentsand especially me. I thank them all again (and again and again ). Preparing this second edition has been more a solo actdue in no small part to the prior assistance of those mentioned aboveyet one impossible to execute without Marisa LHeureux at McGraw-Hill, who helped get my files in working order; Terry Yokota and Dan Franklin, the amazing typographers who organized the pages and made them beautiful; and Christopher Brown, Publisher for Foreign Languages at McGraw-Hill. Christopher has been my editor and friend for many years. His wizardry in this field continues to astonish and comfort me in the process of bringing another book to fruition, and his intelligence and kindnessa powerful combinationcontinue to make writing Spanish textbooks a joy. And of course, none of this would be so meaningful were it not for my husband, Martin, and our daughters, Daisy and Lily, who form the cornerstone of my life.

My sincere thankspast, present, and futurego to these unique and wonderful people. I am honored to know and be associated with each of them.

More than any other aspect of learning a foreign language, verbs challenge the learner. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses is a systematic, logical approach to the study of Spanish verbs, including their tenses, moods, and special uses. This information is provided in workbook format, with clear explanations of each use of a verb. Each section contains a variety of exercises that relate directly to the material just covered and that also include previously covered material for constant review.

This second edition of Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses retains the structure and format of the first edition. The changes are mainly in its content: There are many new paragraphs for translation, and cultural references have been brought into the 21st century. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses takes you far beyond the rote memorization so commonly associated with studying verbs and tenses, and enables you to fully grasp the important as well as the subtle role that verbs play in every sentence we utter, write, read, or think. The verb is the engine of the sentence. Without a verb, the sentence technically and figuratively goes nowhere. Thus, a careful, systematic study of verbs in any language is crucial to communication in any form.

Yet this careful study of the verbs need not be the drudge work so commonly associated with verbs, namely, memorizing a zillion conjugations. If you think of working with verbs as creating a scaffold for the language, which is really what verbs provide, the task at hand can seem far more meaningful and less daunting. You may have seen several Spanish verb books already, and you may be wondering what, if anything, another verb book on the market could add. What sets Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses

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