Chicken_Monster Newbie United States Joined 3779 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
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What is the very best (or a very good) grammar book (or volumes of books) for Spanish. Online is okay too.
I am thinking of perhaps one Spanish grammar reference book, and another Spanish grammar book
designed to teach someone from a beginning to advanced level.
Teach Yourself Spanish has grammar, but I'm not sure if that is enough.
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4134 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
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I haven't worked with enough grammar books to say that one is the absolute "best". But I like the Practice Makes
Perfect books. I used Verb Tenses and Pronouns and Prepositions, both of which were very useful. I know that there's
also a Basic Spanish Grammar book in the series, but I haven't used it myself. They're very affordable, but you have
to find your own way to revisit and review grammar points. Doing things once and then moving on isn't enough -
you have to make an effort to use the things that you've learned.
About Spanish offers very clear and comprehensive grammar explanations for free, if you're able to ignore all of the
ads plastered everywhere:
About Spanish - grammar
edited to correct a typo
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6665 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
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There are a lot of free Spanish grammar resources online. For example, you can check these ones:
-SPANISH GRAMMAR.Libro digital Herramientas de español.Online Advanced Spanish Book
-Spanish Grammar
-Curso de español. English-español.
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AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4628 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese
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I haven't read any others to make a comparison but "A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish" by Butt
and Benjamin is awesome.
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Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6465 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written)
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"Gramática Comunicativa del español" de Francisco Matte Bon is definitely one of the best
grammar books I've ever seen.
I wrote more about it on my blog here:
Gramatica comunicativa
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Chicken_Monster Newbie United States Joined 3779 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
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Przemek wrote:
"Gramática Comunicativa del español" de Francisco Matte Bon is definitely one of
the
best
grammar books I've ever seen.
I wrote more about it on my blog here:
http://www.multigato.blogspot.com/2014/04/gramatica-comunica tiva-del-espanol-
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Sounds great, but it is out of print. Also, are both volumes written in English or Spanish?
Do you (or anyone) have links to where I may purchase? I only found Spanish editions online. I need
editions that utilize English to teach the Spanish. Thanks.
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Przemek Hexaglot Senior Member Poland multigato.blogspot.c Joined 6465 days ago 107 posts - 174 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, SpanishC2, Italian, Portuguese, French Studies: Turkish, Hindi, Arabic (Written)
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No, It's written entirely in Spanish
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6665 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 8 of 18 06 August 2014 at 9:28am | IP Logged |
Przemek wrote:
"Gramática Comunicativa del español" de Francisco Matte Bon is definitely one of the best
grammar books I've ever seen.
I wrote more about it on my blog here:
http://www.multigato.blogspot.com/2014/04/gramatica-comunica tiva-del-espanol-best.html |
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This is the link:
"Gramática Comunicativa del español" de Francisco Matte Bon
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