Spanish in Three Months

by Isabel Cisnoros

The Hugo series of popular self-study language courses prepares vacation or business travelers going to France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Spanish-speaking Central and South America. The books guide readers through essential grammar, pronunciation, and basic conversation with word lists that build vocabulary and exercises that improve speaking skills. The CD use native speakers to demonstrate proper use of the language, Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852850654
• ISBN13: 9780852850657
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing (NJ)
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good introductory course

This is a pretty good intoduction to the language. It gives you a pretty good summary of all the grammar (although sometimes an explanation of how the grammar works in English might help) and a basic working vocabulary. If you are travelling to a Spainish speaking country you will be able to make yourself understood and you will be able to understand some very basic conversation. Do not expect to be fluent - you need way more vocabulary than this book supplies ... but it does give you the building blocks from which to work on. I also got the tapes that you can buy with the book, although found them very disappointing - the person pretty much just reads the lists of words/sentences in the book. A more imaginative/useful and better quality audio program could be produced to supplement what is a very useful book.

¡Me encanta! ¡Me encanta! ¡Me encanta!

I knew quite a large amount of Spanish before reading this book, but now that I have done, I am almost fluent. This book explains the fundamental basics of the language right up to quite complicated grammar. I find languages easy, but even if it were more of a struggle for you, I think that this course would be incredibly useful. This book explains almost all you could want to know about the language and if you finish it and want to know more, it does have a sequel, 'Advanced Spanish Course' which is also very good although it doesn't focus so much on the essential grammar but more on Spanish culture. Even a complete beginner would find this course helpful and I am proof of that as I taught myself Dutch from the book from the same series. Solamente puedo decir compradlo compradlo para que me entendáis si nada más.

A Great Book For Nuts Of All Ages

Who am I? Well, that's not important. The whole story is, I'm a total foreign language nut. I'm obsessed. I can read, write, understand, and speak fluent chinese(my native language), but that's not nearly enough. This book is delicious and calms my cravings for a language. It's extremely useful, and probably really does make you know the language like a native in three months(or less). It teaches all the essential grammar and gives you some new vocabulary as you go along. There are plenty of exercises to test what you learned, and they always make sure to make you use your new vocabulary. Using this book is a great, fun way to stuff Spanish up your nose! However, there are some downsides to this book. The explanations of new grammar can be confusing, especially to a kid like me! Plus, there are tons of english words- big grammar words that give me a headache! I think this should help anyone thinking of getting this book. Bueno suerte,y pienso te gustaras este buen libro. Adios!

Great to Re-learn Spanish

This book is really great for those trying to re-learn spanish. It really moves too fast for a beginner. Therefore, for someone trying to learn spanish for the first time I would suggest reading 'Barron's Learning Spanish the Fast and Fun Way' before reading this book. This book covers a large amount of material in only 13 chapters. This is book is for serious self-study.