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Ingles Para Latinos: Un Camina Hacia La Fluidez (Spanish Edition)

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I use this book with my Mexican boyfriend to better his SPOKEN English, and this book hits the nail right on the head. Although it's written by a "gringo", it is relatively free from grammar and translation mistakes. The style is good for the novice English learner and truly starts from one knowing NOTHING. The flow and progression of the book is more natural than some I have seen. We have finished the book twice and continue to use it for review and drills of vocabulary.

Soy maestro de Inglés como segunda idioma, y estudiante de otras idiomas. Me considera este libro unos de los mejores que apoya a la gente rapidamente platicar en Inglés. No solamente esto, pero tiene también un libro que funciona al reves; se llama "Spanish for Gringos" que apoya a los gringitos que quieren aprender Español.

As a teacher of English as a second language and student of many languages, I consider this book one of the best to help brand new Spanish speaking students learn practical English phrases and skills. Not only that, for those English speakers who would like to learn more Spanish, I recommend the reverse book, "Spanish for Gringos."

Ingles para Latinos makes learning English enjoyable with little jokes and cute illustrations. You can listen to the tapes in the car for review. The tips on how to learn a second language are especially valuable.

I teach English to adult Latinos, and the generic ESL text (i.e., a book not designed for speakers of a specific foreign language) we were using earlier was just awful. My students really love using this book, and I can absolutely notice a marked improvement in their English. One caveat is that if you are an ESL tutor or teacher, you need to have a good knowledge of Spanish in order to make proper use of this text.

Very helpful and clear. I have ordered 75 copies so far in the last 4 months--students find it clear and useful.

We are using this book to supplement our curriculum for 20 hispanic adults who are learning English. We have found it very useful and full of helpful tips for Spanish speakers who are learning English. A number of the students have ordered books for their personal study.

A. Oxborrow

[in spanish]

Soy un gringo y ya hablo, escribir, y leer espanish con 95% fluencia, y aveces tengo que enseñar a los latinos que tenemos en nuestra fabrica, un pocos palabras de inglis para comunicar con los otro trabajadors que no hablan espanish. Y yo he encontrado esta libro ser magnifico y muy facil para aprender inglis. Los lantinos en nuestra fabrica les gusta esta libro muchismo. De todos los libros yo he encontrado y he revisado, esta libro es el mas mejor de todos. Si ya no hablas inglis, y estás serio en aprendiendo la idioma de inglis, yo recomendo esta libro 100%

PD: ahhh otra cosa mas tambien, hay una segunda nivel a esta libro tambien. Que sigue con las ideas de esta libro, para aprender las formas de "estar". Por ejemplo para hablar de futuro, o el pasado.

[in english]

I'm a white guy who speaks, writes y reads spanish with 95% fluency, and at times I have to teach the latino workers that we have in our factory a few words of english in order to communicate with the non-spanish speaking workers. And I have found this book to be magnificent y very easy for them to learn english. All the latino workers we have in our workplace love this book. Out of all the books I have found and reviewed, this book is to be the best one out of them all. If you already don't speak english, and are serious en learning english, I recommend this book 100%

PS: Ahhh one other thing. There is a second level to this book series. That continues on where this book leaves off, following the same ideas as this book, but for learning the different parts of "being". For example talking about the future, or or the past.

In closing:

I seriously recommend to anyone, just starting out to learn english, to purchase this book. Also to those who already speak english and want to brush up on their spanish, this book is a good learning tool as well.

It's a good book to begin learning the language. It could use an audio aid, however...

Viene con dos cintas.
Nos gustó mucho encontrar este libro y Spanish for Gringos para usar para vocabulario in nuestro clase de pares aprendiendo inglés y español. (y el segundo nivel para los más avanzados). Desarollé unas lecciónes que usan los dos libros y tienen más práctica (porque el libro es casi puro vocabulario.) A los alumnos les gustan las cintas y las explicaciones fáciles en su misma idioma porque animan mucho. Y con un nativo para ayudarle pronunciar es aún mejor. Están invitando y pidiendo copias para sus amigos.

i was looking for a book for a spanish speaking friend that will teach the spanish speaker how to correctly pronounce English words. It's very difficult to do in a book because of the many dialect differences in spanish and because there are many English sounds that don't exist in spanish.

the "th" sound as in "the," or "three" (the spanish speaker from SPAIN or Cuba may be the few who may easily learn this because they tend to pronounce some of z's and s's like "th")

the "sh" sound as in "shoe," "radiation," "sugar," etc.

the letter "v" sound as in "vase" (in spanish, the "v" sound doesn't exist because it's identical to the letter "b." there's not a way to phonetically spell the english letter "v" in spanish without explaining that the "v" is "kind of like a smooth f"

The book doesnt teach the many different ways to pronounce each vowel in English (which is very important for a spanish speaker being that each spanish vowel has only one pronounciation). It doesn't emphasize the differences between:
a as in cap
a as in cape
e as in fed (the spanish "e")
e as in athlete (the spanish "i")
ee as in feed
i as in fit
i as in fight
o as in stop (the spanish "a")
o as in stove (the spanish "o")
o as in money
oo as in foot
oo as in spoon (the spanish "u")
u as in put
u as in puke

I would like to see a ESL program for spanish speakers that focuses on pronouncing as I have described.