ofdw Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5846 days ago 39 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English*, Italian
| Message 1 of 7 28 April 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
Dear all,
I have recently started learning Spanish using Michel Thomas; I had a good experience a few years ago starting off
Italian using Michel Thomas in conjunction with an excellent grammar book: "Soluzioni" by Denise de Rome. I
would like to try something similar with Spanish, and wonder if anyone could recommend a good Spanish grammar
book which might work well in conjunction with MT.
What I found good about Soluzioni was that it had a good combination of clarity and thoroughness: it wasn't *too*
dry and dictionary-like, but it wasn't too chatty and silly either. Each concept was explained with many examples of
actual usage, and clear cross-referencing where necessary.
I'd be very interested to hear others' recommendations!
Many thanks,
Oliver
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Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4642 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English
| Message 2 of 7 29 April 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
Maybe "Gramatica de uso de espanol"? It's available in at least three versions: A1-A2, B1-B2 and A1-B2.
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ofdw Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5846 days ago 39 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English*, Italian
| Message 3 of 7 29 April 2012 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
Thanks - I'll check it out. Are those versions different levels?
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drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4903 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 4 of 7 30 April 2012 at 5:50am | IP Logged |
Honestly, I just used,
www.studyspanish.com
It worked very well for me, and then if I encountered anything that wasn't covered on the website I googled it and
there was tons of explanations.
BTW if you speak Italian like I did when I learned Spanish, that website was great because you don't even need to get
really detailed since you already have an idea for most the stuff
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Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5264 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
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studyspanish.com looks useful, thanks!
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Are you familiar with CEFR? :)
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Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5720 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto
| Message 7 of 7 30 April 2012 at 1:32pm | IP Logged |
Maybe Spanish Verbs and Essentials of Grammar?
I have it, and it looks good for a small reference. You can get it really cheap, too.
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