The Everything Essential Spanish Book: All You Need to Learn Spanish in No Time

Name: The Everything Essential Spanish Book: All You Need to Learn Spanish in No Time
Price: 13.47 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781440566219

By: Julie Gutin, Fernanda Ferreira PhD

Product Description

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Find everything you need to know about basic Spanish in one easy-to-use guide!

The Everything Essential Spanish Book features chapters on pronunciation, subjects, verbs, tenses, direct/indirect objects, family and friends, impersonal assertions, questions, words for everyday life, and more. Casually written, this book will keep you encouraged as you move through the most important grammatical and vocabulary-based concepts. Plenty of charts are included as well as helpful sidebars and cultural notes. 255 pages, softcover.

Product Information

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Title: The Everything Essential Spanish Book: All You Need to Learn Spanish in No Time
By: Julie Gutin, Fernanda Ferreira PhD
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 256
Vendor: Adams Media
Dimensions: 8.4375 X 5.5 X 0.75 (inches)

Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 1440566216
ISBN-13: 9781440566219
UPC: 9781440566219
Series: Everything
Stock No: WW566211

Publisher's Description

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Learning Spanish can be easy and fun!

Hola! If you've always wanted to learn Spanish, here's a quick and easy way to get started. Whether you're planning a vacation in Mexico or adding a valuable second language to your resume, The Everything Essential Spanish Book will help you order the right dish in a restaurant, answer customer's questions, or converse with locals when traveling.

With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this portable guide covers the most important Spanish basics, including:

The Spanish alphabet and translation
Greetings and conversation starters
Common questions and answers
Verb tenses and sentence structure

Don't just learn to repeat words and key phrases--learn to understand them on your own terms and at your own speed. The simple step-by-step approach and lively examples will have you speaking--and understanding--Spanish in no time!

Author Bio

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Julie Gutin is a professional editor and writer with a BA in Spanish and Comparative Literature from Boston University. She was a volunteer teacher for the Boston Red Cross English as a second Language program, teaching English to native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese. She lives in New York City.

Fernanda Ferreira, PhD, is a native speaker of Portuguese and has been teaching the language at the college level since 1993. She has completed a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ferreira has been teaching at Bridgewater State University since 2001, where she is a tenured professor and former chair of the foreign languages department. Dr. Ferreira lives in Brockton, Massachusetts.