The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary: 30,000 Words Including Cognates, Roots, and Suffixes

by Scott Thomas

A new, and dramatically improved, three-pronged approach to learning Spanish vocabulary

"The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary" is much, much more than a Spanish vocabulary reference! This unique and complete resource combines three complementary approaches to vocabulary building cognates, root families, and suffixes to instantly increase word familiarity and aid memorization.

Whether for active face-to-face communication or passive comprehension of written or spoken words, an in-depth knowledge of vocabulary is the key to foreign language mastery. "The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary" makes acquiring this mastery simpler and more straightforward than ever before by providing: An extensive thematic list of Spanish cognates and an alphabetic glossary of Spanish root families both with more than 14,000 entries A comprehensive listing of the 130 most common Spanish suffixes, with 4,000 common examples A frequency index listing the 5,000 most frequently used words in Spanish An alphabetic index cross-referencing every entry in the root, suffix, and frequency sections"

Genres: Spanish Literature

672 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2005

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[Menna]

Very good

[Henry Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good

[Shawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I checked this book out from the library today because I loved Scott Thomas' other Spanish textbook "Listen N Learn Spanish with your favorite movie....and wanted to check out his other book. I totally love "The Book Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary". This book it is a great tool for learning the language and I am loving it as a dictionary too. I liked it so much I purchased it.

Things I love:
1) It is a "big book" with big type. I can easily look up and see the words.
2) The dictionary of Spanish roots is out of this world. First of all a dictionary organized this way makes it way easier to find a word. It also makes it easier to learn new words and better ways to use words. For example the word Abrir (to open)has 9 words under it from the same root....from reabrir (to reopen) to abertura (opening), to entreabrir (to open partially)
3)The thesaurus of Spanish cognates is also great. The words in this section are grouped by category and make writing, talking and vocabulary building within a given area a breeze.

[Rick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another of many such books that I can't say I read cover-to-cover. I don't believe it's meant to be read that way, anyhow. It's much more of a reference book.

In that sense, I did find it useful. I even found that it was nice to just sit, and browse pages, kind of like I used to do with the dictionary, and thesaurus, when I was a child.

This book is very, very thorough. One reason that it has 30,000 words, is because so many of them are related: just different declensions.