Spanish Problem Solver

I have a lot of this series of book and find them all to have clear explanations of how to use words. This book as the title suggests highlights some of the problems that people have. I have a Spanish teacher but find that often the explanations are not clear but this book filled any gaps that were in my knowledge.

Arrived promptly. Fitted the description. Just what I needed.

Lovely book! Just what I expected! Very good condition!

The concept of this book is good to cover areas where many students find problems but the opportunity has been missed.This is especially true of chapter 16, relative pronouns. I have problems knowing when to use: el que, el cual, la que, la cual etc in sentence construction and I believe this is the most problematic part of the usage of relative pronouns (I once asked a Spaniard about this and he threw up his hands in horror). In this book the topic gets sparse coverage and the coverage given answered none of my questions. The examples in the exercises do not help at all with this part of the topic.Other problems I have with this book are:1. American English of the worst kind, I think he is trying to be trendy. Most educated Americans do not murder the language to this extent.2. The Spanish is American continent Spanish and prospective purchasers should be warned that there are many cases in this book where Spanish Spanish will use a different word. Latin American usage seems to be the case in most of this series of books but in this book I believe that the Spanish used is that of the USA (Spangringo?). He uses sweater to translate sweater, not suéter. I have looked in several Spanish English and Spanish language dictionaries and none of them have sweater as a Spanish word. That is one example; I am very dubious about some of his other word usage but my Spanish is not good enough to really comment. I am also curious as to why in many of this series of books the word "auto" is used for car (in this book it is used but usually he uses "carro"). In much time in Spain and Colombia I have never heard it used. Yet one of the series authors is from Motril Spain and he uses auto all through his books in the series, having bought a car in Motril I know they use "coche" there and "carro" for a supermarket trolley! Dictionaries say "auto" is used in the Cono Sur but maybe it is used in Spangringo as well.3. There is a tendency to wander off topic , for example: chapter 6 and 12.4. There are inconsistencies in the Spanish of the book. I several places the examples he gives in the text contradict those in the exercises. Sometimes I know one is right and one wrong but in others I am not sure and that is not going to teach me any new Spanish. It is not unusual for books of this series to be riddled with errors regardless of the author. I seems to me that little attention is given to proof reading and making sure that the answers match the questions asked. Very sloppy editing in general.One last thing, at least in Spain, be a little cautious about using the recommended (in this book) te gusto I am told by Spaniards that it can be misunderstood. But here again is a missed opportunity as the use of the first person in this sort of verb is a problem for many English speakers but there are better examples eg: te caigo bien, te hago falta.

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I’ve worked my way through about ten volumes of this series with great results. This one, however, was confusing and frustrating. Weird, convoluted sentences that made no sense and didn’t work as exercises for the issue in question. The answer key would give only one option as the correct answer when there were a number of other constructions equally correct. Very arbitrary and imprecise to be of use, at least for me.

look to start learning with this book. Looks like this book has a lot of helpful practice examples for me to practice. But, in all these book you have to have some kind of formal classes to get full understanding of this book.

As an avid Spanish learner I'm now hooked on Vogt's work. The explanations are thorough and engaging, I've learned a lot. Going to get more of his books.

Great for those moments when your brain just freezes. Very help, glad to have this in my language toolkit.

Great resource for Spanish teachers and learners. Eric Vogt's work is well thought out and very useful.

This is a great book! Every book in the Practice Makes Perfect series are great learning tools. The book arrived on time & I recommend everyone to buy from this vender!

Easy to read

Good practice book

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Great book! Well written with entertaining exercises that make practicing fun. I learned alot and would recommend this to anyone who wants to really understand Spanish.