Repase y escriba: Curso avanzado de gramática y composición (Quinta Edicion) (Spanish and English Edition)

This book does spell out the rules of speaking Spanish quite well, but the vocabulary in the stories is really regional - so much so that sometimes the words aren't even in my Spanish-English dictionary. I suppose this is to be expected but it makes reading the stories a little difficult, and I didn't have this problem in a previous Spanish textbook. This book also occasionally has vosotros things even in assignments, etc, and I'm not really familiar with that form at all - it's not hard to guess though.

This was a text book for my son's college Spanish class. It came as promised and is what the professor wanted.

Very helpful I got a B for my course using this book🙂

It arrived more quickly than expected. Appears to be as advertised. I got all that I wanted from a used textbook.

This grammar book is excellent. It goes beyond advanced grammar, which I'd already taken in college, and touches on some of the aspects of everyday language usage. If you feel like you've covered Spanish grammar, but still have questions about how to say certain things, this is a great book. Topics covered that go beyond advanced grammar offerings, are punctuation, diminuatives, different ways to say things that only have one word in English, like the word "become". Very, very useful. I'm still working my way through it, but I use it as a reference. The only bad thing I've found about it is that the teacher's edition, or answer key, is not available. I'd like to have it just to make sure I'm answering the questions correctly. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is striving toward native language usage.

I used an earlier edition of this book as part of an advanced, private tutorial in writing and grammar, and still refer to it for subtle questions of grammar and uses of idioms. It is the best, single text for an advanced student of Spanish as a second language that I, as an adult learner, have run across.The book itself has excellent questions and exercises, and the supplementary workbook is entirely optional. The workbook does not match the elegance of the textbook, itself, in my opinion. The workbook is worthwhile if you feel you need to solidify for yourself some of the confusing grammatical points, and especially if this is your first exposure to advanced Spanish.As the author notes in her "correction," the three star rating given by the first reviewer refers only to the workbook. One could quibble whether the primary textbook deserves 4 1/2 or 5 stars, but certainly no less. If the price seems too high (it is a college text, and priced accordingly), you might want to try to find an earlier edition, used.

It finally arrived on the 4th of September. Quality is very good, looks almost lik new!