General Spanish Textbooks | |
Breaking Out Of Beginning Spanish | |
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by Joseph J. Keenan (Review from Amazon.com) |
Jim Larson 2 / 2005 |
best general
book |
The Nassi-Levy Spanish | |
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Stephen L. Levy, Robert J. Nassi (2002) This is the most common general textbook at Guatemalan Spanish Schools. Former students often donated it to their teachers. It has plenty of exercises. |
Carol Cohen 11 /2006 |
came across a great workbook by Nassi-Levy when I was in Guatemala, and 2 of the three schools gave it to me to do some exercises. |
Learn Spanish Now 2 | |
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by
Christopher Kendris (1986 Random House) 613 pages This workbook for intermediate high school and college Spanish courses emphasizes conversational skills as well as grammar and writing basics. Verb tables, idioms, and definitions are included in a fill-in workbook appropriate for classroom assignment and self-study. Book Description This effective and attractive worktext picks up where Spanish Now! Level 1 leaves off. An ideal worktext for classroom use in intermediate high school and college Spanish courses, Spanish Now! Level 2 emphasizes the development of students' conversational skills while also offering intensive instruction in reading, writing, and grammar. (Review from Amazon.com) |
Robin Hutton 8 / 2005 |
I use a language program on my computer. It is voice interactive and I find it very much more effective than a grammar text. There seems to be unlimited learn Spanish manuals and pracitical texts and it is hard for my to distinguish one from the other. I would suggest looking at available computer programs for learning Spanish. I like the "Learn Spanish Now" program that I use. |
Essential Repaso | |
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by National Texbook Company (2001) |
Sarah Emanuelson Cochran 23 / 7 / 2005 |
Regarding your question of textbooks--I actually found this one in the great bookstore (North & South) called Essential Repaso. For people like me who have a background with the language, I think this book is excellent--great examples & explanations, along with some good cultural information. |
2001 Modismos Españoles e Ingleses | |
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by Eugene Savaiano, Lynn W. Winget |
Jim Larson 2 / 2005 |
best idiom book |
Dos Mundos | |
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By Tracy David Terrell This book teaches Spanish using only Spanish Language and comes recommended by the Proyecto Linguïstico Quetzalteco de Español. |
Grammar and Exercise Books | |
Practical Spanish Grammar: A Self-Teaching Guide | |
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by
Marcial Prado
The fast, easy way to master the essentials of Spanish Now, learning Spanish can be as easy as uno, dos, tres! Combining the quick- reference virtues of a phrase book with the learning tools of a full-fledged language course, this popular guide gives you a solid start. Completely revised and updated for today's usage, Practical Spanish Grammar gives you: * A proven interactive format that has been tested, rewritten, and retested to ensure you can teach yourself at your own pace * Exercises to reinforce what you've learned * Clear explanations of approximately 80 percent of Spanish grammatical structures * Over 1,000 of the most frequently used Spanish words * Sample dialogues with cultural notes and lists of terms. (Review from Amazon.com) |
Sally Palmer 8 / 2005 |
This grammar book is more
of a workbook and it helps someone who needs to write and read things
in Spanish in order to learn the language. The book of verbs is great
because it fully conjugates the most common verbs.
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The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice | |
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by
Ronni L Gordon , David M Stillman (1999) A good grasp of grammar enables the foreign-language learner to build skill and confidence in communication. Here's the "ultimate," painless way for intermediate and advanced learners to brush up on the rules. Each grammatical concept is explained and then illustrated with lively sentence examples; extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation. (Review from Amazon.com) |
Gary Chapman 7 / 2005 |
best Spanish text... |
Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions | |
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by
Dorothy Richmond (1998), 208 pages This bestselling book in the Practice Makes Perfect series treats Spanish pronouns and prepositions systematically in a worktext format. Containing concise, user-friendly explanations with generous and varied practice, the book helps students develop their knowledge of how and why pronouns and prepositions are used. Plus it encourages students to use the pronouns and prepositions in real-life contexts. (Review from Amazon.com) |
Gail Juppenlatz 2 / 2005 |
I have 2 books that are helpful. From a series of "Practice Makes Perfect" books by Dorothy Richmond. One is "Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions" and the better one is "Spanish Verbs". They are available at Overstock.com very reasonably. |
Verb Books | |
501 Spanish Verbs | |
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by Chistopher Kendis Ph. D, Theodore Kendris Ph. D. (Review from Amazon.com) |
Jim Larson 2 / 2005 |
best verb book |
Shauna Dahl 8 / 2006 |
We also took the 501 verbs, it is big but I liked having it for my homework. |
Spanish Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Verbs) | |
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by Christopher Kendris (2001) (Review from Amazon.com) |
The Red Pocket Book Spanish Verbs | |
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by Gordon, Ronni L and Stillman, David M (2003) (Review from Amazon.com) |
Sally Palmer 4 / 2006 |
The book of verbs is great because it fully conjugates the most common verbs. |
Spanish Verb Tenses | |
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by Dorothy M. Devney (1996) 305 pages |
Dictionaries | |
Mini LaRousse Dictionary | |
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by Larousse Editorial (2006) ISBN: 2035421233 (Review from Amazon.com) |
Shauna Dahl 8 / 2005 |
We took a few dictionaries but the one I liked the best was the mini LaRousse dictionary. It is small, has a vinyl cover and a few pages on verbs. |
Web Sites | |
Español Spanish Traveling - Travel while studying | |
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This young team of teachers takes you traveling while learning. One week Chichicastenango, Panajachel (lago Atitlán) y Quetzaltenango including 35 hrs of classes one-on-one and hotel but no food costs $500, a week Río Dulce Izabal y Livingston $390. Give Antonio Zamora and his team a try! http://www.spanishtraveling.org |
Speakshop | |
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If you would like to continue Spanish
lessons after you come home, try Speak Shop. This site offers online
Spanish classes with a webcam. You pay online and then receive classes
you can schedule freely. The instructors are teachers of the Probigua
School in Antigua. It costs about $8 per hour which seems reasonable.
If you try this service, we would be very pleased of a report as we
have no feedback yet. It is very worthwhile to study during an hour
per week after you return to your home country. Many students have praised
what they learned in Guatemala but told us: "unfortunately I already
forgot half of the grammar I learnt". |
Vocabulix | |
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This site provides free language learning
tools like online conjugation exercises. For a moderate fee you can
have your work revised or design individual lessons. I did a vocabulary
test. The site asked me for a level of difficulty. It then presented
me words the translation of which I had to type in. If I was mistaken,
my score would decrease and the word would be repeated later in the
lesson. |