Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice with CD-ROM, Second Edition (UItimate Review & Reference Series)

Gain confidence in your Spanish-language communication using the method trusted by more than 200,000 students

The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice gives you a good grasp of grammar so you can build your skills and confidence in communication. Each grammatical concept is explained and illustrated with engaging sentence examples; you'll also get extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation.

This book/CD-ROM package includes:

• More than 400 exercises, in addition to 200 exercises on the accompanying CD-ROM
• A Pre-Test that identifies your strengths and weaknesses and a Post-Test that helps you review your progress, both on CD-ROM
• Bonus online content, including audio exercises as well as internet-based activities focused on key cultural website across the Spanish-speaking world

Topics include: Pre-Test Verbs, The present tense, Ser & estar, Stem-changing verbs & verbs with spelling changes, The preterit tense, The imperfect tense, The future & conditional tenses, Reflective verbs, Passive constructions, The perfect tenses, The gerund & the progressive tenses, The subjunctive in noun clauses: present & present perfect subjective, The imperfect subjective & past perfect subjective conditional sentences, The subjective adverb & adjective clauses, Commands, The infinitive Nouns and Their Modifiers, Pronouns, Nouns & articles, Adjectives, Demonstratives & possessives, Personal pronouns: subject, object, prepositional, Relative pronouns Other Elements of the Sentence, Adverbs, Prepositions, Interrogative words & question formation, Negative & indefinite words, Numbers; dates; time, Idiomatic Usage, Idiom, expressions, & proverbs, Word formation & diminutives, ¡Ojo! Common errors & pitfalls

Ronni L. Gordon, PhD, is a well-known author of foreign language textbooks, reference books, and multimedia courses. She is vice president of Mediatheque Publisher Services, a leader in the development of foreign language instructional materials. She holds a PhD in Spanish language and Spanish and Spanish American literature from Rutgers University, and has taught and coordinated Spanish language programs and taught Latin American literature at Harvard University, Boston University, Cornell, and Drexel University. A foreign language consultant, she has read for the National Endowment for the Humanities, presented at the United States Department of Education, consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages and presented at conferences on Spanish American literature and foreign language instruction. She is an associate scholar of a Philadelphia-based think tank and is chairman of the board of directors of Dolce Suono Ensemble.

David M. Stillman, PhD, is a well-known writer of foreign langauge textbooks, reference books, and multimedia courses. He is president of Mediatheque Publisher Services, a leader in the development of foreign language instructional materials. He holds a PhD in Spanish linguistics from the University of Illinois, and has taught and coordinated foreign language programs at Boston University, Harvard, and Cornell. He teaches languages and linguistics and coordinates an innovative program of student-led conversation practice at The College of New Jersey. He is a frequent presenter at national and regional conventions of language educators, has consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages, and has been appointed to national committees devoted to the improvement of teacher training.

The Gordon-Stillman author team has written more than forty foreign language textbooks, multimedia courses, and reference books.