Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students [Paperback]

Glencoe McGraw-Hill (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 11, 2001)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0844270512
• ISBN-13: 978-0844270517
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #85 in Books > Libros en español > No-Ficción > Educación > Referencia
  • #94 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > Spanish

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86 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent way to learn Spanish, April 11, 2001

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David E. Levine (Peekskill , NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (Paperback)

I recommend this book highly for anyone who has a very basic (and it need be only very basic) understanding of beginner Spanish. The book is broken up into very short readings followed by questions or othjer exercises. This book should not be the sole source to learn Spanish because there is no pronunciation guide and definitions of words in the text don't always distinguish first person, second person plural etc. Therefore, you need to have some idea of these grammatical rules. However, this book is a great way to learn to read and to expand on your very basic knowledge of the language. You can read and try to understand everything from the context. If you need help in understanding, there is a glossary of new words introduced into each of the readings. This really helps in learning not only to read but to speak. I find this book to be one of the easiest ways to build vocabulary. I enjoy using this reader and I think it's a wonderful resource for the beginning student.

64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lo mejor para aprender leer en español, August 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (Paperback)

This book is excellent for learning to read in spanish! It starts out as a very basic reader a little like see spot run, see jane run after spot kind of style involving the story of two young students who eventually fall in love and gradually progresses to intermediate history lessons and finally to the anonymous Spanish classic of Lazarillo de Tormes. I used this book when I first started learning spanish and am now a Junior at the University of California with a major in Spanish/Portuguese literature. I owe alot to this little book and recommend it highly.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's ok--as long as you don't have to do the excercises, December 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (Paperback)

The book is a good tool for learning vocab and practicing reading and speaking and I like the fact that the readings get more difficult throughout the book. However, the excercises in the book are boring and repetitive. There is no answer key (though the answers are right out of the text) and when the text gets harder and into different tenses, it's difficult to know if you are answering the questions correctly.