A fun, comprehensive way to get up to speed on Spanish
With over 325 million speakers, Spanish is in a virtual dead heat with English as the second most popular spoken language. This easy-to-follow guide shows readers how to successfully conjugate verbs, providing easy, entertaining exercises and answer keys to reinforce different grammatical rules. More than just a dictionary-style list of verbs, Spanish Verbs For Dummies covers regular verbs in the present tense and six other simple tenses, interrogatives and imperatives, irregular verbs in all seven tenses, and Spanish verb nuances.
Mary Kraynak, MA (Indianapolis, IN), teaches Spanish to junior
high and high school students and has served as a technical consultant to
several Spanish learning guides.
From the Back Cover
Get the hang of Spanish verbs and get over verb hang-ups!
With 14 tenses, six conjugations, and a lot of irregularities, Spanish verbs are pretty much out to get you. Fortunately, this book is here to help you make sense of confusing rules and regulations and drill you on the most common exceptions. Each chapter is packed with examples, conjugation charts, and plenty of exercises — just what you need to master even the toughest Spanish verbs.
Discover how to:
- Review regular verbs in the present tense
- Cope with common exceptions
- Conjugate all simple tenses, from preterit to imperfect subjunctive
- Tackle the trickiest irregular verbs
- Conjugate compound tenses with the verb haber