Complete Spanish Step-by-Step, Premium Second Edition: The Versatile Peer

Very good book for beginners

This is a very good book which my Spanish teacher uses on italki. Do buy the Audible version of the book so that you can use that in conjunction with the book !!!

Complete Spanish Step-by-Step is basically 2 books in 1 i.e. Easy Spanish Step-by-Step + Advanced Spanish Step-by-Step. Each chapter contains clear grammar and vocabulary explanations. There are vocabulary lists, complete verb conjugations. There is reading comprehension as well. There are many written and oral exercises for better understanding. This book has complete answer key in the back. This book is divided into 6 parts – The first gives you all the fundamentals of the language in the present tense. The second part explains indirect objects, direct objects, direct object pronouns, reflexive verbs, and the present subjunctive. The third part presents the two most used tenses in the past, the preterit and the imperfect. The fourth part reviews the present tense and uses of 'ser' and 'estar', the preterit and imperfect tenses, the progressive tenses, the present subjunctive, and commands. The fifth part is an in-depth explanation of nouns, articles, adjectives, pronouns, and the present and past perfect tenses. The sixth part covers the future and conditional tenses, the past subjunctive, and idioms.

Love it! Simple to start, plenty of written exercises to work on. Tackles sentence structures, basic vocab and grammar, pronouns. Very comprehensive and user friendly. I’d recommend having a spanish-English dictionary handy when you study to help translate and understand the chapters as well.

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I've been using this book for a week and already find the layout and structure superior to others I've used. After trying many other self-teaching books/methods I've always found that the bulk of learning focuses around language useful to a short stay tourist, rather than learning the core of the language in order to become familiar with any scenario. Bregsteins book however, builds solid foundations and allows the user to become confident in structure of the sentence. I've used this book to effectively start from scratch and although it begins with a simple alphabet, I found the explanation of phonetic sounds and basic rules more digestible than other books. As a novice, I wish I had started with this book; its clear, structured and the exercises throughout help to solidify what has been learned. For optimum learning, do as advised and dont skip ahead. Good luck in your studies.

Best book to learn Spanish for beginners - the explanations are clear, new vocabulary is introduced at an optimal pace, and there are also exercises if you're into that sort of learning.