Enormous 700-page Spanish Grammar Tome

[Amara]

Let's say that you've reached a moderate-to-high level of Spanish proficiency. Now you want to take things to the next level and attain nearly flawless writing & speaking skills. To that end, would you use a 700-pg Spanish grammar book like the one below?

Amazon.com: A Comprehensive Spanish Grammar by Christopher Pountain & Jacques de Bruyne

This book seems to really be heavy duty.


Have you ever used a grammar book that big and that advanced--for any language? If so, how was the experience?

[chileno]

hmmm...

No.

First of all, do you have that high of a grammar level in your native language? If yes, then you would get something like the following:

http://www.amazon.es/gram%C3%A1tica-.../dp/8467033215

[Sancho Panther]

I have got a copy of that very book, it was 50p in a car-boot sale! It's not a book you can sit and read, it's purely a reference work where you have to refer to the contents and index and look up a specific aspect of grammar you're unsure of.

I suppose there'll be the odd occasion when I'll need it but I wouldn't have paid a high price for it!

[Amara]

Originally Posted by chileno

hmmm...

No.

First of all, do you have that high of a grammar level in your native language? If yes, then you would get something like the following:

http://www.amazon.es/gram%C3%A1tica-.../dp/8467033215

Besides the fact that REAL Academia Español penned this book, why specifically do you like it so much? Why do you prefer it over other such books?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Amara

Besides the fact that REAL Academia Español penned this book, why specifically do you like it so much? Why do you prefer it over other such books?

Because it is in Spanish?

That's what you are looking for, right?