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Your comprehensive guide to speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish! Want to speak Spanish? Looking to improve your Spanish skills? Now you can start today with these minibooks, which give you the expert instruction you need to master Spanish basics and beyond. From numbers and vocabulary to common phrases, conversations, and much more, you'll see how to communicate effectively in Spanish and use it in real-life situations. The practical exercises will give you greater confidence — and the bonus CD helps you start speaking Spanish from day one! Warm up with the basics — handle greetings and small talk and review pronunciation rules, letters, numbers, and dates Speak in everyday settings — handle greetings and small talk, order food and purchase goods, talk on the phone, ask for directions, and deal with emergencies Grasp grammar essentials — learn to identify and use the various parts of speech while you conjugate verbs in the simple past, present, and future tense Stretch your skills — issue commands with the imperative mood, take action on object pronouns, talk about yourself with the reflexive, and wish and hope with the subjunctive Take Spanish to work — communicate with colleagues or customers at the office, tailor phrases to your line of work, and review example workplace scenarios for common professions Open the book and find: Basic and advanced Spanish grammar Pronunciation tips and vocabulary charts Verb conjugations for regular and irregular verbs Masculine and feminine nouns Tips for using adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases Proper ways to ask questions The inside scoop on the key verb haber Key phrases for numerous work environments Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish dictionaries Bonus CD Includes Features dialogues by native Spanish speakers Allows you to hear Spanish as it's really spoken Please see the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Paperback: 696 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (August 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470462442
ISBN-13: 978-0470462447
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #14,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Foreign Languages > Spanish #62 in Books > Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses #110 in Books > Reference > Foreign Language Study & Reference
I ordered the Kindle version of this book and have read almost the entire book, or should I say the four main books included in this All-in-One. I purchased the book as a review of Spanish grammar, even though I am an advanced non-native Spanish speaker, having lived in Peru twice (once for two years and once for one year), and mainly I purchased the book as a Spanish phrase book to review phrases needed in the workplace. The book fulfills the goals for which I purchased the book.So why only three stars? First, it has Spanish grammatical errors in the section on Education phrases and conversation. This totally negates the purpose of that section: to provide a pattern of good Spanish. For example it uses "¿Qué?" when it should use ¿Cuál? in several questions; it shows the negative familiar imperative as the positive familiar imperative by just adding "no" in front of the verb (one example: says "no molesta a los demás" instead of "no molestes a los demás"), and in some cases it uses the indicative when it should use the subjunctive (for example, "espera hasta que te toca" instead of "espera hasta que te toque." (I used a Google search to try to find an errata for the book, but I couldn't find one. The publisher really needs to take care of this.)Second, many of the tables are unreadable on the Kindle without converting the display font to the smallest possible and switching to landscape view. This gets annoying after a while.And third, the conversations (valuable otherwise) don't highlight the Spanish so if you are reviewing a particular conversation, it is hard to pick out the Spanish phrases from among the English translations and pronunciation guides.In spite of these drawbacks, I would recommend this book to beginning or intermediate Spanish learners.
this is a really good book. it has a lot of practical information in it. this book teaches you how to communicate in spanish, however it is in practical situations such as going to a bank, ordering food at a restaurant, calling for help, etc. it is not like the normal foreign language textbooks that have vocabulary words and ridiculous stories to translate that you will never be able to apply to everyday life. i am very pleased with my purchase.
I have had no training in Spanish what-so-ever but wanted to learn. This book is very simple to understand and put together in a logical, and easy to understand, order. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn Spanish! I also got the 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners' Guides) & Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase) (Spanish and English Edition) and have found these to be very helpful in my endevor to learn Spanish!
This product is money well spent. I don't believe that you will become fluent in Spanish by reading this book, however, it will give the reader an excellent start to learning proper pronunciation and some of the basic phrases and words.This product accompanied by other learning sources will definitely help put the student on the right track to learning Spanish. Being able to interact with other who can speak the language is always best for learning, but the Spanish for Dummies book will help prepare you and make you more confident.This is not a read once type of book. Learning Spanish takes much practice, so this book is great as a reference guide to refer back to while learning, and is useful to read over and over while grasping this language.As is the case for the rest of the "Dummies" books I have read, this also is an easy read, and an inexpensive way to gain knowledge about a useful subject.
This is the best all-in-one Spanish book I've owned. I've tried other books to try to help me learn. But this one is so easy to read & absorb. I've accomplished more in my Spanish learning with this book in a shorter length of time than all the other books that I've bought.
This is an excellent book, for learning Spanish. I can now communicate to an extent with my friends in Austin who speak mostly Spanish. However, when you are grasping for a word, there are some serious gaps in the dictionary portion of it. Would have liked to see more household words included. I am not talking about anything complex, but merely simple words. However, all in all, it is an extremely good book for teaching yourself Spanish (until you can get to Adult Education!)
Fantastic! This Spanish book is extensive and progressive from beginner to advanced. I learned new things in just a couple days and I took four years of Spanish. Also, I love that I can tap into their supplemental online tools and there is a CD at the back of the book.
Que Pasa! I am trying to learn Spanish with as many sources as I can. this is a good reference book, especially if you are learning Spanish for work.
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