As essential as 501 verbs
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This work published by Larousse is the English language version of their guide to French verbs.  What sets it apart from others is that the illustrated verbs have the pronunciation of each form of each tense indicated in the International Phonetic Alphabet. As the pronunciation is not apparent in many cases, this is a great feature for anyone who uses or is learning French.  For example, who would guess the pronunciation of the third person plural of the simple past tense of "venir" by looking at the verb form "vinrent" just by looking at it?  (It is pronounced like "vers" with a nasal vowel.)  I refer to it quite often, especially when reading. Also, it has an index with the basic meaning and reference to a like conjugation for every verb in current use from "abaisser" to "zyeuter."
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These cards are a great find for teaching verbs. Most other tools and cards teach only nouns or counting. Separate the cards by age starting with the verbs toddlers recognize (run, jump, dance) and add more abstract verbs as the child gets older. My 30-month-old grandchildren love when we do these cards.
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The technique used by the author is to have the listener listen and repeat the verb conjugations for 50 important verbs. She covers the present, preterite, imperfect, and future tenses as well as the past and present participles. She does not cover the subjunctive or conditional tenses.
I think this is decent program for practicing pronunciation and memorizing the conjugations for these 50 verbs as well as learning their definitions. It doesn't require a lot of intense concentration for practicing unlike some audio programs. You can follow along to the audio with the booklet provided if you wish.
The drawbacks for me were I memorize things better when I can use the words in dialogs.  There are no dialogs on this program so you won't get any practice including them in sentences. Also, the author spends very little time distinguishing between when to use the imperfect or preterite past tenses which is a problem area for me.  A final complaint is that the recorded volume of the CDs is too low. I like to take the CDs to the gym where its noisy and even at full volume I struggle to hear the recording.
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this book is an absolute essential to any student of italian. I use mine almost every day. It is easy to use and while it doesn't have every verb in the language it has all the basic patterns and irregular verbs. If you don't have it get it now.
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An excellent way of increasing once vocabulary. For people (like me) who have reached a basic knowledge of the language but want to increase conversational use through increased number of words. The book provides 24 different aspects in life e.g. Food & Drink, Art & Music etc with all its different words and usages in everyday life. I find that by just reading through one of the categories at regular intervals (say daily or weekly), I gradually retain more and more words and usages.
Walter Moser, Newtown VIC, Australia.
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A very well structured book with vocabulary arranged as per the theme, meanings in English and examples of usage. Goes well with the accompanying exercise or &Uuml;bungsbuch. Can be a bit intimidating for absolute beginners but becomes intersting at the B1 level, when you want to recapitulate, extend and consolidate the vocabulary.
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so far so good - my only quibble is that the first part of the book could use more examples of verb forms
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Good book, but you need to be a little further along in your studies for this book.  It is more of an advanced beginner to intermediate.  The verb conjugations are for all tenses.
It is a big help with overlapping verbs..It specifies with a greater clarity which verb is better to use.
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If you are learning Persian then you know you cannot form many sentences until you know some basic verbs. This is a great help.
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A perfect complement to "Demystifying Spanish Grammar"... and a good warning of how dangerous it is to translate word for word. A reviewer was rather harsh, stating that the book covers so few words. True, but "Demystifying Spanish Vocabulary" deals with 46 English words that can be translated into 122 Spanish ones. Not bad for starters.
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I'm amazed. This is how every single language textbook should be made. Concise, to the point and cogent. In case anyone is curious, I counted out around 2,043 words in the vocabulary section, which is more than enough to get you started in any language. Through out the grammar explanations and practice exercises you become familiar with the morphology of these words. But of course there's one thing that I wish the book had; audio files to accompany it. If you're learning Romanian buy this book. The author has a Youtube channel as well which is full of material.
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If you are serious about learning Spanish and attaining fluency, you have to master verbs, and this book is a must buy.  This book in simple terms explains the formation for all the verb tenses and moods, with the general rules and the exceptions.  There are numerous examples and practice sentences and paragraphs.  It may be helpful to repeat the written exercises once or more.  Once you are truly familiar with all the material presented, you will not be confused about when to use the indicative, subjuntive, or imperative moods or how to form the various present, past, or future tenses in Spanish.
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It is a very handy lexicon to have on one's kindle, which is where I do most of my casual Latin reading; but it's not quite perfect yet. I notice that the lexicon struggles especially with identifying verbs. Even with well-known common verbs, sometimes you want to look up information about them, alternate meanings, citations, etc.

Here's just a quick list of verbs the lexicon did not recognize:

remerguntur
condelectabatur
subdoceret
prosternebatur
pertendebat
devolutus
indicassem
cohibebam
flagellavi
dirigerem
volutamur

I certainly don't mean to be too critical - it is a nice tool; but with a little more development it could be a great tool.
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There are very few resources for learning Dutch and even fewer good resources. However, this book is a must, it has grammar elements in the front, goes through the verbs, and then ends with a list of 1500 verbs. If you are truely serious about learning Dutch this is a book that needs to be included in your studies.
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I own (and use as a teacher) the 2004 fifth edition of "Essential Idioms in English."  What I like most about it is that 98% of the idioms/idiomatic phrases/phrasal verbs listed and explained are pretty much in everyday use in American conversational English.  There is little here that is truly out of date and unworthy of a student's effort to learn.  This is more than you can say about a lot of alternative publications.

On the other hand, new idioms are created about every 15 minutes in the online, youth and ethnic cultures of the U.S. and a lot of them come into wide usage pretty quickly.  Most of this "hipper" language is not in "Essential Idioms..."  And it's probably impossible for them to be included unless the book became an online publication updated every other day.  Hey--not a bad idea.  There are, of course, some pretty good websites that provide idiom resources.

Meanwhile, this is good basic resource that I would like to see updated soon.
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I like this book.  It is small, portable and easy to throw in a carry-on for airplane review.  Only available used.  You can get the book of 501 Spanish Verbs  -- but who needs 'em?  All the basics are here.
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It's nice to have a book with 100 common Korean verbs which is visually appealing and helpful. The conjugation charts are very useful. The introduction explains the conjugations pretty well. Talk to Me in Korean's free lessons on their website are always a fun and entertaining way to pick up Korean from native speakers with a deeper understanding of usage than one usually finds, so this purchase supports their efforts. However, there are a few areas where the book could be improved which keep it from 5 star territory. These could easily be fixed for future editions:
1. Cost is a little high for what it is, i.e. conjugation charts for a 100 verbs and a handful of examples for each.
2. Should probably be one volume, as there really isn't enough content to warrant breaking it up into 2 volumes.
3. Some modal tenses are missing from the conjugation charts. These are easy and common structures so I think they should be included. Some of the missing verbs endings include those for "I have to ...", "Should we ...", "I would like to ...", "May I ...". It would be helpful if some more of these common forms were included on the conjugation charts and explained in the intro.
4. Five examples for each are just too few. More examples please if possible.