A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
by John Butt, Carmen Benjamin
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Author: Carmen Benjamin, John ButtEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-01
ISBN: 0340810335
Number of pages: 582
Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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Book Review: A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish Review by James
Summary: 5 Stars
This is James from James Spanish (the learning Spanish blog).
Along with a comprehensive language course and Spanish dictionary a grammar reference is a must-have tool if you are serious about learning Spanish. The New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is one of the most comprehensive books available, dealing with a huge range of grammatical elements of the Spanish language. The book is written in an easy to understand and clear language and boasts a clean and simple layout, allowing students to use it quickly and easily.
The key benefit to this book is that is present Spanish grammar as it is currently being spoken around the world. The focus is on the way that rules are applied by modern speakers, providing a realistic reference tool for real-life conversations with native speakers. Language is flexible, changing over time, and this book highlights grammatical rules that are being bent or broken by contemporary speakers. The observations are accompanied by examples and quotes from popular authors, newspapers and other media sources, giving interesting illustrations and evidence of current usage trends. These exerpts make fascinating reading for any student who is interested in the evolution of linguistics and likes to complement their study of the Spanish language with more cultural and social background information into how it is used.
A glossary at the back provides help with many of the words used in the book, although this does not substitute for a solid understanding of English and Spanish grammar, making this book unsuitable for early beginners.
The book is highly detailed, and geared more at intermediate to advanced students who have a genuine interest in grammar, rather than an all round reference book, but still provides a great deal of valuable information. Covering tiny grammar details often overlooked by other texts, it is an invaluable tool for cross referencing grammar elements that you might come across in modern written texts and can't find in conventional dictionaries or verb tables. A great tool for advanced students, the book even pays close attention to Castillian Spanish as well as Latin American, making it suitable for students of both regional dialects.
The book's layout is easy to navigate, with bi-lingual translations on each page and a well laid out format and index letting you turn to it for reference quickly and easily.
In closing my review of this product, I'd like to share with you the three Amazon products that I have found most helpful in my pursuit to learn Spanish. If you are truly serious about achieving fluency, I'd recommend getting all 3 of them if you can afford it.
1. Lights, Camera, Spanish (Book + DVD): Learn Conversational Spanish by Watching a Romantic Adventure This is actually a 90 minute movie for Spanish-language learners. It gives the option to watch the movie with subtitles but I'd recommend not using them to improve your Spanish. This "movie" also includes a workbook so that you can reinforce the Spanish vocabulary words and phrases from the film. The workbook also has lots of exercises to keep you engaged in the film. But be prepared to hear Chilean accents. Although pleasent to the ear, the accents from Chile are very different from most Latin American accents.
2. Verbarrator Version 1.1 (Windows Version) This software replaces the traditional verb conjugation books and makes learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs an interactive and fun activity. This should be a required resource for anyone who wants to improve their ability to conjugate Spanish verbs. Especially anyone who is challenged by the drudgery of learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs and who is looking for a new way to make learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs an easy and fun activity
3. Diccionario esencial de la lengua espanola de la Real Academia Espanola (Spanish Edition) If you are really serious about speaking the language fluently, then at some point you will need to replace your Spanish-English dictionary and get a pure Spanish dictionary with both the vocabulary words and the definitions entirely in Spanish. I use this one only because it was highly-recommended by a friend from Spain who teaches Spanish. According to him, in academic circles in Spain as well as Latin America this Spanish dictionary is the standard.
Summary of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish
A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is widely recognized as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish. It provides teachers and students of Spanish with a comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free guide to the forms and structures of the Spanish currently used in Spain and Latin America.This new edition has been carefully revised and updated, and its explanations have been checked against the findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's Gram�tica descriptiva de la lengua espa�ola and other new works in the field. Many new Peninsular and Latin American examples have been included, the English text has been thoroughly revised and in many places expanded or clarified. A glossary of grammatical terms has also been included. As a result this new version should now be invaluable to an even wider readership ranging from intermediate to advanced students of Spanish.
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