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Living Language Spanish All the Way Manual: Learn at Home or On the Go (The Living Language Series)

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I had never spoken a word of Spanish (okay, except 'si') before taking up this course, and two months and 25 lessons later I could speak better than friends who had taken Spanish all three years in H.S. This is an excellent, practical course that emphasizes conversation skills. I do wish there were more comprehension drills, as I still have lots of trouble understanding anything on Spanish TV here in New York. But without a doubt this is the best Spanish course I have come across. For example, much, much better than Barron's "foreign service institute" courses.

When my wife and I set off to study Spanish in Guatemala several years ago, we decided to to go the "immersion" route (i.e. NO ENGLISH, 5 hours a day of 1-on-1 instruction, live with native families). Since we knew zero (nada!) Spanish, we set off to our local Borders, and luckily found (along with 501 Spanish Verbs), this extremely helpful (and fun) book. I enjoyed this book so much that before we even left for Guatemala, I had read through probably one-third of it, so I wasn't TOTALLY clueless when I arrived in Antigua. Fun dialogues of increasing difficulty, pronunciation guides, grammar and usage, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and cultural notes -- they're all here, laid out in a user-friendly way. If you want to learn Spanish (which is not a bad idea these days, since Spanish is probably the fastest growing language -- of the major spoken languages -- in the world), this is as good a start as any...

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I was very satisfied not only with the price but the quality of the items I bought and especially the time it took to ship them to me.