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Summary: A great book to learn Spanish!
Review: I am using this book in an adult Spanish class, and I can not believe how quickly I have picked up conversational Spanish. I walked into the class knowing only the words enchilada and taco. Last week I had a conversation in Spanish with some of my neighbors!! I was thrilled(!) I have been a teacher for four decades, and have seen many textbooks. The book does a really good job of presenting material in an organized fashion. The chapters build upon the material presented in previous lessons, and there is a great deal of conversational practice built into it. Related vocabulary is presented in units (classroom vocabulary, home vocabulary, shopping vocabulary) following along with the lives of the persons introduced at the start of the book. It really helps to learn and speak the vocabulary in context like this. I recommend getting the audio CD along with it. There is also a workbook with more exercises, although I have not used that. I have an audio CD of the vocabulary words. I practice saying the vocabulary words at least an hour a week, while I am cleaning the house. I also spend about 1 to 2 hours a week studying the material. During this time I first do the exercises in the book, and then I make new questions and answers using the words and sentences, and practice saying those. I attend two one-hour classes a week. The teacher presents the material in the book, and we spend at least half of the time practicing talking using the material in the chapter. In summary, this is a great book if you are willing to put in the time to learn the material. You really must master one chapter before moving onto the next, and you must go beyond just doing the exercises. Creating and practicing your own sentences really helps to develop your conversational skills.
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Summary: A great book to learn Spanish!
Review: I am using this book in an adult Spanish class, and I can not believe how quickly I have picked up conversational Spanish. I walked into the class knowing only the words enchilada and taco. Last week I had a conversation in Spanish with some of my neighbors!! I was thrilled(!) I have been a teacher for four decades, and have seen many textbooks. The book does a really good job of presenting material in an organized fashion. The chapters build upon the material presented in previous lessons, and there is a great deal of conversational practice built into it. Related vocabulary is presented in units (classroom vocabulary, home vocabulary, shopping vocabulary) following along with the lives of the persons introduced at the start of the book. It really helps to learn and speak the vocabulary in context like this. I recommend getting the audio CD along with it. There is also a workbook with more exercises, although I have not used that. I have an audio CD of the vocabulary words. I practice saying the vocabulary words at least an hour a week, while I am cleaning the house. I also spend about 1 to 2 hours a week studying the material. During this time I first do the exercises in the book, and then I make new questions and answers using the words and sentences, and practice saying those. I attend two one-hour classes a week. The teacher presents the material in the book, and we spend at least half of the time practicing talking using the material in the chapter. In summary, this is a great book if you are willing to put in the time to learn the material. You really must master one chapter before moving onto the next, and you must go beyond just doing the exercises. Creating and practicing your own sentences really helps to develop your conversational skills.
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Summary: This is the worst Spanish book I've ever seen!
Review: I had no prior experience with a foreign language and have been stuck with this book at my local community college for 3 semesters. It is extremely advanced and difficult to follow. After purchasing additional tapes, CD-ROM, verb conjugator and a Spanish/English dictionary, I am still unable to translate some sentences. This book goes beyond confusion, it is almost impossible to learn from. As a matter of fact, if you are not already fluent in the Spanish language, I wouldn't recommend this book at all! It is horrible! And definitely not for beginners!
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Summary: university student
Review: I wouldn't recomend this book for learning spanish if there were no other evidence of the spanish language on earth
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Summary: Perfect
Review: I'm bilingual, and teaching children. This book is GOOD!
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Summary: A great book for learning the basics of spanish.
Review: This book has most of the basics of the spanish language. Through colorful pictures, thoughtful exercises, and culture tid-bits, this book gets the job done.
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Summary: Poor choice for anyone studying Spanish.
Review: This textbook is a poor choice for anyone studying Spanish. There are too many mistakes and due to these mistakes, Spanish language students will suffer the consequences by not having the correct information. The layout of the book is also confusing. Vocabulary lists are provided at the end of each chapter. This means that anyone who is working on a particular exercise must constantly page back and forth. There are also a lot of grammatical elements that appear in exercises which students have yet to cover, thereby leaving the student confused and misguided. The glossary is also poorly designed. Anyone using a foreign language textbook should be able to look in the glossary for vocabulary that had been covered in the book. Instead, one must refer back to the chapter in which the vocabulary appeared. Such a task has proven to be fruitless and exasperating. Why make the process of learning and studying a foreign language more difficult than it already is?
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Summary: A great combination of grammar and vocabulary!
Review: Trato hecho is a revolutionary book that combines vocabulary and grammar in a wonderful, meaningful way. The introduction of the vocabulary in the first two parts of every episode gives the students the opportunity of getting into the subject and theme. Once this is done, the third part of that episode introduces the grammar in the same context that has been settled already. A great way to introduce grammar instead of just explaining a point and do meaningless and mechanical exercises on it.This is a perfect book for long classes (one hour and a half or so, per episode). The workbook supplies extra material and is very well designed. There is no problem like with other books in which you have to select what exercises are good and which ones you can just throw to the garbage.
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