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.Easy Learning Spanish (Collins Easy Learning Audio Course)

by: Carmen Garcia del Rio

July 07, 2008
The Collins easy learning is a quick and simple way to pick up the language. Many of these types of language learning programs promise big things and dont deliver.

The learning program is split up into 12 short units which introduces 5 keywords and phrases per unit. To aid the understanding of each unit, there are sections on culture and etiquette. This is most helpful in adopting the spoken language, and this approach is a new idea I've not come across before within these learning packages and I have to say it works really well when trying to adopt the language into a conversation.

It also gives a better understanding of which words to use and why and will improve word selection dramatically. This is by no means ... Read More:
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.Spanish: Beginner (Collins Language Revolution)

by: Tony Buzan, Carmen Garcia del Rio

March 03, 2008
The packaging is great to look at and is also very practical - the book and CD's fit neatly back into place. The new `Mind-mapping' is not really new, it's just been given a name (colour coding groups of words). I'm not saying it isn't a good idea if sticking masses of paper with groups of words in different colours makes you learn it better than just reading it from the book, but I personally don't want additional papers everywhere when it's all in the book anyway.

Another of the books methods of learning words is traffic lights where green is `go ahead' - the words are the same or nearly the same in English, amber is `wait and think' - not as close as green words but there will be a connection to English words, and red `stop, think, make ... Read More:
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.En Marcha!: An Intensive Spanish Course for Beginners (Hodder Arnold Publication)

by: Carmen Garcia del Rio

May 27, 2005
I found this book very useful to acquire the basics of Spanish in a short time. The book is well organised and structured and provides vocabulary for every-day use.
It does, however,lack the small text passages that you usually find in that kind of course, which I would have found nice to get used to reading and see more examples of Spanish syntax. Also there are words and phrases used, but not part of the vocabulary list, so you need to lok those up yourself.
I can definately recommend this book to use in a taught course, you can use it by itself, but should be willing to look up words and possibly get some simple Spanish texts to practice reading with.
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.En Marcha: An Intensive Spanish Course for Beginners (Hodder Arnold Publication)

by: Garcia del Rio, Carmen

May 27, 2005
I found this book very useful to acquire the basics of Spanish in a short time. The book is well organised and structured and provides vocabulary for every-day use.
It does, however,lack the small text passages that you usually find in that kind of course, which I would have found nice to get used to reading and see more examples of Spanish syntax. Also there are words and phrases used, but not part of the vocabulary list, so you need to lok those up yourself.
I can definately recommend this book to use in a taught course, you can use it by itself, but should be willing to look up words and possibly get some simple Spanish texts to practice reading with.
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