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Title: Spanish Now: Level 1 by Ruth J. Silverstein, Allen Pomerantz, Heywood Wald, Nathan Quinones ISBN: 0-8120-9653-3 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A generally excellent textbook for beginners.
Comment: I am a professional tutor of college-level Spanish and use this book with almost all my private beginning students (i.e., those not enrolled in a first-semester college course). They appreciate the book's low price, humor, useful vocabulary, clear grammar explanations, logical organization, extensive cultural information, and the textbook/workbook format: being able to write the answers to the exercises on the lines in the book. Working with this book and a good tutor, the diligent student can get a terrific combination of basic grammar plus considerable practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening, all while having a lot of fun. The book is marred by some typos, but I don't know any foreign-language textbook that isn't -- and I speak four languages. I simply correct the typos for my students as we go along. In sum, it's a very good book for the price.
Rating: 4
Summary: Can't do it alone
Comment: I am using this book for a first time teaching adults and I thought I had found the perfect book. Now, I seem a little bit agitated and wish I had used Arriba! like the other college-level classes do.
It is not a bad book, but I don't believe it is geared for someone who is trying to learn spanish without an instructor. I have studied tons of languages and usually lack the discipline to get started on most languages without an instructor. (I did manage to teach myself basic braille and elementary latin.)
If you buy this book by yourself, you should also get the tapes and the teacher's manual. I would also highly recommend that even if you have an instructor that you should buy the tapes...
I found that it also helps students if one teaches a review of english grammar before digging into spanish grammar. I wish more of our language books, including this one, carried a basic english grammar review.
The book does have typos here and there (I am a book collector and most books do), and the tapes do not exactly match up with the units, but a well-prepared instructor and student can easily acknowledge and help correct this.
Rating: 5
Summary: comprehensive and fun
Comment: I am not a disciplined person and find it difficult to buckle down and study. With this book, I found myself studying and completing the lessons on my own on a regular basis. The lessons are entertaining and fun too!
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Title: Spanish Now!: Level 2 by Christopher Spanish Now Kendris, Barrons Educational Series ISBN: 0812093240 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words by Seymour Resnick ISBN: 0486291138 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: First Spanish Reader (Dual-Language) by Angel Flores ISBN: 0486258106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use by Dover ISBN: 0486280861 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: 501 Spanish Verbs by Ph.D Christopher Kendris, Ph.D Theodore N. Kendris ISBN: 0764124285 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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