"Breaking the Barrier is a just my cup of tea!  As a native speaker and an experienced teacher, I don't want to be constrained by traditional texts that provide too much material and too little focus on what's really important.  My students thrive when they have the essentials.  This way I can be most effective in the classroom - sharing my experience as a native speaker and my best teaching practices.   Breaking the Barrier IS A BOOK THAT I CAN USE, RATHER THAN HAVING  IT USE ME!"

- Spanish teacher, Massachusetts

"Breaking the Barrier is a living, breathing text.  It changes and bends with the times.  Each new edition is better than the last!"
- AP teacher and consultant, Florida

"Only a teacher could have written this book, one that is truly for students and for teachers. How refreshing and invigorating to encounter someone who values and teaches the structure of language to achieve effective and creative communication."
- Spanish teacher, Massachusetts

"I can't praise you enough for your advanced book. It is really the first time that a 'review book' leaves me, a teacher of Spanish, happy and satisfied. Very, very useful for advanced or AP classes. Muchas gracias."
- AP Spanish teacher, California

"I wish this series had been available years ago. It's current, clear, concise and complete. Furthermore it never ceases to entertain."
- Language teacher, New Hampshire

 "Precise and to the point ... thankfully without 'the noise' of so many other texts."
- AP Spanish teacher, Boston

"Breaking the Barrier is a firm, granite foundation on which to build an effective Spanish program. It is a point of departure for forays into what has become an amazing range of authentic contacts with the Hispanic world. Students who need the basic points of grammar with find them here in straightforward explanations, careful step-by-step instructions and practical exercises, along with humorous asides and unconventional examples... BSB transcends the drill and enters the realm of pleasure."
- Conrad Kent, Professor of Spanish, Ohio Wesleyan University

"Students must know grammar to master a language, and nobody teaches it like John Conner ... he makes it fun and easy to learn. He knows his audience inside out, and gets the job done with humor and finesse."
- Language teacher, Texas

"For those students who want to achieve, particularly on AP and SAT II exams, knowing grammar is a necessity ... and the Breaking the Barrier series is the finest there is."
- AP language teacher, New York