Picture Perfect Spanish: A Survival Guide to Speaking Spanish (Spanish Edition)
 
 
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Picture Perfect Spanish: A Survival Guide to Speaking Spanish (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Jerry Lucas (Author)
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• By making the intangible tangible through fun and easily memorable pictures, Jerry makes learning Spanish fast.

• Learn Spanish without the drudgery of rote memorization! Each of over 600 Spanish words has been carefully associated with the English equivalent in a way that ensures accurate pronunciation in this full color book.

About the Author

Jerry Lucas graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University. Mr. Lucas initially achieved fame and success by his impressive basketball accomplishments, he continues to score off the court as well. Through the years, Jerry has taught his memory-retention system to millions of people either in seminars or through sales of his books. Not only did her co-author New York Times best-seller The Memory Book, he also entertained countless television viewers with guest appearances on TV talk shows during which he dazzled large numbers of studio audience members by demonstrating his ability to meet and remember all of their names.

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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Lucas Educational Systems (January 2001)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 1930853009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930853003
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #781,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
    #39 in  Books > Libros en español > No-Ficción > Educación > Teoría Educativa

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Good, the Bad, and the misundertanding, February 26, 2005
By H. Martin (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Picture Perfect Spanish: A Survival Guide to Speaking Spanish (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
The reviewer who criticised the method of using association (even with English words) misunderstands the purpose of such mnemonic techniques in learning languages, and so a portion of that review is just invalid as being from one who misunderstands.

Such methods are not PERMANENT 'crutches' but temporary splints that allow one to remember words long enough to see and use them effectively (even if slowly) until they 'stick', and thus this book offers a wonderful resource for those learning their first 600 (most critical) words.

That reviewer is HOWEVER CORRECT to criticize when such a method is used for words which can be more easily learned as cognates (e.g., medico should be learned from it's association with medical -- perhaps with only enough mnemonics to handle the "co" or ensure it is found when looking for a word for "doctor".

One can argue that a large part of the value of this book is to teach the method in the context of Spanish, which can be applied to more vocabulary, other langages, or other subjects entirely.

One important key to effective mnemonics is that there are dozens if not hundreds of mnemonic methods and techniques, and one must avoid getting stuck on any one method, but pick the one most suitable for the current item(s) to be learned.

If you are learning Spanish and have yet to learn your first 1000 words or so, buy this book.
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An effective system of using pictures to teach, February 16, 2001
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Picture Perfect Spanish: A Survival Guide to Speaking Spanish (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
In Picture Perfect Spanish: A Survival Guide To Speaking Spanish, Jerry Lucas employs an effective system of using pictures to teach more than 600 words of Spanish in such a way as to insure correct pronunciation, along with basic sentence structure, grammar, conjugation. The reader will quickly pick up hundreds of common phrases enabling him or her to speak clear coherent Spanish. This completely "user friendly" and highly recommended manual is the equivalent of one year's beginning Spanish and will have the reader up and running with a working vocabulary and conversational skill far more quickly than the usual classroom approach to beginning Spanish. Picture Perfect Spanish is also the ideal "refresher" reference for those who have once studied Spanish but have forgotten most of what they learned over the intervening years.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Self published, February 17, 2010
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Don't let the stock are fool you, this is low grade self published crap which lacks not only a real editor and a real illustrator, but a real author as well.
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