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Colloquial Spanish (Colloquial Series)

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Colloquial Spanish is well organized and understandable to the beginner, as well as challenging to the advanced learner. Please don't expect to learn Spanish in a week or even two. You must study, study, and this book with tape set can help. I would not recommend purchasing only the book. The tapes that corresspond are a vital addition. The only drawback I can see, is this...there is an abundance of information that is not included on the tapes. It would be helpful to have more practice listening to a native speaker on additional tapes. Putting this aside, I would recommend Colloquil Spanish to anyone who desires to study Spanish. Ustedes un buen dia!!! Chao!!

I bought this originally because there is a surprisingly limited amount of material available for learning Spanish as it is spoken in its original home. Almost all of the Spanish material I had used treats the language as it is spoken in the Western Hemisphere, so this filled something of a gap. By practicing with the audio portion of the course it is certainly possible to get a good feel for the sounds of Continental Spanish. I didn't expect to learn a lot of vocabulary I didn't know, so I can't knock the course for that, but the usual irritations that come with these Routledge courses are out in force here- lots of words used in the dialogues and exercises that aren't in either the vocabularies or the glossary and a few that I couldn't even find in my excellent and well-thumbed dictionary. So three stars is as high as I'm willing to go, but for someone wanting to learn Spain Spanish rather than Latin American Spanish this isn't a bad thing to have.