I was looking around the reference section of my library yesterday and saw a 1600 page English grammar reference. I'm wondering if there's the equivalent in Spanish, comparable to "Le Bon Usage" for French.
Posted Apr 15, 2012, 9:14 PM UTC
Is it something like this? http://www.rae.es/rae/gestores/gespub000016.nsf/voTodosporId/27C2DC88F6D957E3C12578FD003F301D?OpenDocument&i=7
I wouldn't bother, though.
Yeah this is probably it… I wanted to make sure something existed that was similar.
The first 200 pages of this book are all grammar - straight to the point. There's a lot in there that I never learned in any spanish class, all the obscure rules, exceptions to rules, etc.. http://www.amazon.com/Merriam-Websters-Learning-Complete-Spanish-Edition/dp/0877795622
I LOVE The New Reference of Spanish Grammar or something like that. The author's last name is Butt, which always makes me chuckle. I'm a grad student and it's a great book! It's extremely detailed.
This is what you're looking for my friend. Well, at least an online version. http://www.rae.es/rae.html
I'm interested as well. The closest thing I can think of is learnspanish.com
Learnspanish.com is seriously great. It's very concise and helpful... great for sending to your Pocket (formerly readitnow) app and reading whenever you have a spare 15 mins.
What do you mean about that app? Can you explain?
Sorry, the app was more for me specifically (I am abroad studying Spanish and don't have data, so I can only use the internet with WiFi).
The app (Called "pocket" and formerly "readitlater") allows you to easily send whole websites and articles to your phone, for those times when you are on a plane (or out of coverage, like me). I keep all of the pages that are relevant to my spanish study in Pocket, and can access them all at any time, even without the internet.
It's great for this particular purpose, as well as for those times when you have like, 50 wikipedia pages up and you can't read them all at once but know you'll be bored and without internet later.
Awesome idea. Thanks for introducing it to me! It didn't turn up right away on the app store, so I wasn't sure if I searched the right app.
By the way, if you want someone else to practice spanish with, shoot me a pm and we can set up a skype contact :D