Teach Yourself Spanish Vocabulary [Paperback]

Mike Zollo (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071421580 | ISBN-13: 978-0071421584 | Publication Date: September 15, 2003 | Edition: 2

An essential resource for language learners at all levels

For beginning learners or students who have a hard time grasping a new language, the Teach Yourself Vocabulary series has been totally revised to be a self-teaching resource for teens and adults. These practical guides present hundreds of key words in manageable groups--not boggling-boggling vocabulary lists like other language learning books do--in familiar topics such as telling time, greetings, employment and hobbies. This series also features numerous memorizing techniques to ensure that new vocabulary sticks in the learner's mind.

More than just reference books, the Teach Yourself Vocabulary series builds students' knowledge of the language and contains:

• Key, up-to-the minute vocabulary
• Terms listed with relevant verbs, adjectives, and useful expressions
• Memorizing activities to make sure readers remember the words they have learned

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About the Author

Mike Zollo has been teaching Spanish for over 30 years. He is currently Head of Modern Languages at Britannia Royal Naval College .

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 2 edition (September 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071421580
• ISBN-13: 978-0071421584
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,665,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and easy to use. Highly recommended., June 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Spanish Vocabulary (Paperback)

I am learning Spanish for both business and pleasure and find this book an invaluable tool which has greatly increased my range of Spanish vocabulary. It is practical, up-to-date and well laid out. An excellent reference book which I would recommend to anyone wishing to enrich their grasp of the Spanish language.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent teaching and reference choice!!!!!!, March 8, 2001

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Eddie Johnson Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Spanish Vocabulary (Paperback)

What a great book. However, what is left out is this dialect of Spanish is called Castillian. This is spanish as spoken in Spain. While in Puerto Rico I repeated some of the words I learned from reading the book and the people I was talking with had a look of "What is he saying" on their faces. But, this is an excellent book for learning spanish. There are 4-5 different methods for learning Spansih outlined in this book and there is something here for everyone. I am fortunate to have a spanish speaking person working with me and I always ask questions. You will not be disappointed if you purchase this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not Just a Word List, December 8, 2011

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C. A. SMITH (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself Spanish Vocabulary (Paperback)

The organization of this book puts it far ahead of typical vocabulary lists. Words are organized topically, with sections on family relations, work, things around the home, clothing, travel, and so on. The vast majority of the vocabulary consists of nouns. If you want to learn verbs (a few are included) and their conjugations (nothing here) this book is not for you. Prepositions, conjunctions, objects, and sentence structure are not covered at all. But as a learning aid for nouns the book is very good.

The only real negative for the book, assuming learning nouns is your goal, is that there are a few errors. While this might be overlooked in some books, a vocabulary book, like a dictionary, should not have errors in spelling and definition. It is easy to see how some of the mistakes occur. For example on page 176, in a list of the parts of the face, eyebrows are called parpados and eyelashes are called cejas. In fact, eyelids are parpados and eyebrows are cejas. This type of error could easily be prevented by a close proof reading by a native speaker. Thankfully these types of errors are few.