Spanish The Easy Way

by Heywood Wald, Allen Pomerantz, Ruth J. Silverstein

Book Overview

This newly revised edition contains amusing dialogues and stories to introduce Spanish vocabulary and grammatical concepts to beginning students. Useful as an informal self-teaching manual, the book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764119745
• ISBN13: 9780764119743
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

My favorite beginner Spanish workbook out of several I have tried!

I am only on lesson 6, but out of several different workbooks I am trying, I like this one the best so far. My favorite part of the chapter is the story at the beginning. I read through it several times before moving on to the questions about the reading. That is followed by a grammar lesson and additional activities practicing the new grammar concept introduced. Each chapter is arranged similarly, which a section at the end that is all dialogue and idioms. It is a lot of writing, but it slowly builds and I am already starting to grasp simple sentence construction in Spanish, which is one of the most confusing parts for me to understand. I am using it to supplement a few other books, including Complete Spanish: Step by Step, which is great and goes to a much more advanced level, but doesn't have enough practice for me to really "get it".

Great for Learning on your own!

This is a great book to learn spanish. Check it out!.NOTE: The publishers has another book named Spanish Now 1 by the same author. IT'S THE SAME BOOK!. The only diference is that SPANISH THE EASY WAY has the answers to the exersises in the same book. SPANISH NOW 1, does not, you need to buy another booklet that has the answers ???.But, there are SPANISH NOW 1 TAPES that you can buy and use with the SPANISH THE EASY WAY BOOK, for listening and pronunciation.

If you are a self-starter and motivated, this is for you!

I had four years of high school Spanish back in the 1970's and to this day I am sorry that I did not keep up on learning this wonderful languge. Although skeptical about the title "Easy Way," I bought this book anyway, and I am glad I did. If you are a self-starter who is just learning the language, or someone like me who wants to get back into it, this is your book. Logical, methodical, and, at times, entertaining, Spanish the Easy Way will have you well on your way to getting a fairly good handle on this wonderful language. The author introduces a lot of vocabulary, along with logical grammar and sentence structure exercises in order to facilitate a practical understanding of the language. This book gets 6 stars!

EXCELLENT!

This book is excellent in teaching both Spanish in Spanin, and Spanish in South America. I have just finished the Lecciones Preparatorias (Prepatory Lessons), and I'm now moving on to Chapter One. I have bought many books that claim to teach you Spanish but this one by far is the best! There is a story all in Spanish in the beginning of each chapter with questions to answer about it, information about the Spanish culture, famous art by Spanish artists, tons of illustrations, and famous American comics like Charlie Brown and Dennis The Menace in Spanish! I highly reccomend this book for any age! By the way, I don't think that it skips around illogically like other people said. Anyway,¡Buena suerte con Español!

Excellent introduction to Spanish grammar

This book provides excellent practice is gramatical useage while helping you build your vocabulary in a relatively painless manner. It explains concepts in a very simple manner, and allows quite a bit of practice with each concept. I will comment that it tends to be a bit fragmented, and the vocabulary isn't introduced as smoothly as it could have been.

The Best in Print!

I have more than twenty books which claim to teach Spanish. This book really does. It may jump around a bit, but I believe those jumps are logical. The version I have was published in 1982, so I can only hope that the updated version is better; although I think it would be difficult to top this excellent teaching tool.