REVIEW - Spanish All-in-One For Dummies

 

Spanish All-in-One For Dummies

• 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.
• My experience in learning languages (French, Japanese, Spanish) is that I need to take a class. A book just won't do it. However, this book is as good as you are going to get, and if you also go to class with its accompanying text, you'll have great success in learning to speak as well as read.
• Fantastic, thorough book to teach the basics of spanish.
• I like this book, its ease of use, and the full coverage of grammar. I think it will be easy to find items as I access selected items later. It is very well organized. I am a bit puzzled my the selection of verbs listed in the appendix, but a separate verb reference is really required in any event.

BOOK REVIEW -- The Ultimate Spanish Language Books collection

 

Learn Spanish: 6 books in 1: The Ultimate Spanish Language Books collection to Learn Starting from Zero, Have Fun and Become Fluent like a Native Speaker

• For those who haven’t purchased this book set but want to learn, that says “a fun way to learn Spanish!” I love these books!!I have not even finished the books and I have already figured out how to write that headline. My boys and I are reading this together and having the best time learning Spanish as a family. When travel opens up a bit more we hope to test our abilities from this fun book out on a trip to a Spanish-speaking Destiination. A really great way to spend your ‘stay at home’ time!
• I have always wanted to learn a second language but thought I was too old to do so. I saw this book on Amazon and thought I'd give it a try. I definitely need more practice and will be rereading this book multiple times, but I believe I can achieve my goal with the help of this book. I might not ever be able to speak eloquent Spanish but do believe I could at least hold my own in a conversation with a lot of practice. This book gives you so many tips and tricks and basically takes you through conversational Spanish. I wish we had these books when I was in high school taking the required two years. I think I might have actually learned something. I highly recommend giving these books a try if you'd like to learn Spanish in a very easy to understand way.
• Learning Spanish by Fernandez Language Institute is full of awesome tricks to help you learn Spanish! I love the idea of writing in Spanish each day in little ways such as making a to-do-lists or using your cell phone to text message someone in Spanish or setting daily reminders to yourself but my ultimate favorite is song lyrics first, because I get to understand the song better and second, I get to learn romantic words. This book also tackles idioms which are very difficult for me to understand and the fact that they’re in chart formats makes them easy to read. I enjoyed the way the author organized the book and the "everyday conversations", it just flows. This is a collection that both my family and I will be enjoying for many years, great book and great Spanish!
• This collection of 6 books includes everything you need to learn the language as well as stories to read to help you with your fluency. I took Spanish in school and haven't used any of it since. This book is super helpful to refresh my Spanish and help me to better my fluency. There are great ideas to help you retain your Spanish through writing yourself notes in Spanish or writing yourself reminders in your Calendar in Spanish! This is a good hobby while staying "social distanced". With focus and practice, you'll be speaking Spanish much more fluently!
• I purchased this book to learn Spanish but I have a southern accent, so not coming out as it should , but will keep practicing .I love how this book tells you the pronunciation and the meaning of the words .This set of six books really helps me to learn , but taking it slow, so may be awhile before I actually finish this book .But I'm optimistic about this book ,in that I will learn Spanish . Recommend this book ,if you are wanting to learn Spanish .
• I like how these books are broken down and very organized. It is great to learn Spanish besides learning the language it also teaches you the grammar and how to carry on a conversation. It also tells you how to retain information like changing the setting of your phone to Spanish so you can read your text messages in Spanish.
• As a person who took Spanish in high school, this was very easy to follow and helped me learn so much more than I work have in high school. It shows you how to conjugate verbs, popular phrases to say in Spanish depending on the situation. If you are struggling with learning how to speak Spanish, this book is for you!

Review Book. -- Communicating in Spanish with Confidence

A proven grammar-based approach that gets you communicating in Spanish with confidence, right away

• This was what I was looking for to supplement Rosetta Stone Spanish. My 9th grade daughter was using RS but was not really retaining much or getting solid in the grammar. To her, RS is too vague. Plus she was constantly using Google Translate to figure out what they wanted for the worksheet instructions. So I looked into finding a textbook type approach with English instructions and grammar exercises. This fit the bill. Check out the pictures I attached of lesson, exercises and answer key.
• As someone who has worked hard to achieve fluency in a second language as an adult, I feel I have some insights into what is required. The first priority, especially if you have limited study time, is how to structure your learning. This is where this book shines, and why I would recommend it. It divides the task into logical, sequential steps that build upon each other, in the order you would learn them if it was your first language, saving verb tenses for later. The reading exercises at the end of each chapter are a useful and motivating tool, but ideally they would have reinforced vocabulary already learned, rather than requiring footnotes! The insertion of long summary lists of verbs and nouns is not by itself very conducive to learning. An appended dictionary of selected words would have been better. Finally, no book is as useful for verbal learning as audio material, but this one is a good companion. Personally I have found the Pimsleur recordings most helpful - I have no vested interest, just saying.
  Overall, if you had time or space for only one introductory Spanish text, this would be a good choice. It will make it easier, but not easy!
• After searching through no less than 50 books, I chose this to supplement my 7th grader's Duolingo Spanish Lessons (we homeschool). I love this. We have tried three other textbook versions of Spanish to help supplement the Rosetta Stone and Duolingo. This is by far the best. It is well-written, well-organized, and has very efficient practice exercises. It is very easy for my 12yo son to write the answers to the exercises in a notebook, and just challenging enough to really help him grow.
• Love this book. In a fairly concise format, and cheap too!, it clearly presents what you need to know to get started in the language. I've been using it to teach my children, ages 7-14. I have a fair amount of high school Spanish myself, so the occasions where a word shows up without having been defined yet did not throw me too much. The grammar presentation is excellent. You need to make your own vocabulary flashcards because there is no comprehensive list of vocabulary words. They are often just defined in the grammar examples when they translate the grammar examples. The one thing I wish this book had is a comprehensive list of all new vocabulary at the end of each chapter. But compared to all the other Spanish texts I have looked at, this one is delightfully simple and easy to use. There is a lot of vocabulary... more than I ever remember learning at once in school Spanish classes, but I think that a lot of vocabulary is necessary to get a real start in a language.
• Ain't gonna be easy... but I'm working through it. Rapidly escalates. Many quizzes (just found the answer keys in the back of the book - Yippee!). I combine this with "SpanishDict", an on-line service that helps me with pronunciations and examples of word-usage. My hearing isn't good, so the audio-only-based instruction programs are useless. This is better. Will need to start watching Spanish language TV news and listening to the Spanish language radio stations.
• Using with my teacher during private lessons. Very instructive but sometimes the exercises go too fast where more practise on subjects are needed before starting something new.