Mastering Spanish, Level 1 (with Audio CDs)
by R. Stockwell, J. Bowen, I. Fuenzalida-Silva
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Book Summary Information
Author: I. Fuenzalida-Silva, J. Bowen, R. StockwellEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04
ISBN: 0764175971
Number of pages: 678
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Accessories:
- Complete Spanish Grammar Review (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)
- 501 Spanish Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Foreign Language Guides)
- Mastering Spanish Level Two: Audio CD Package (Mastering Series/Level 2 Compact Disc Packages)
Book Reviews of Mastering Spanish, Level 1 (with Audio CDs)
Book Review: Thoroughness 10. Organization and presentation 3.
Summary: 3 Stars
This course is thorough and tough. You need to sit down in a quite place and focus on just this. My one suggestion however is it could be better organized to call out key points. The way it is written you'll never use it for a reference book. You have to go page by page to find all the key information. If I just need to better understand a particular grammatical structure I encountered in my day-to-day activities this book does not help. It is all just kind of buried in there. I also found the explanations to be not as clear as some of the less rigorous Spanish self-study materials.
I found "Self-study Spanish" by Syracuse Language Self-Study Spanish for example to be a great tool for quickly getting some basic grammatical things under my belt. Explanations were simple and clear. It is not however any where near as complete as this course by Barrons. If I can devote the time to completing the Barrons material I feel I will be very comfortable in the Spanish language.
Summary of Mastering Spanish, Level 1 (with Audio CDs)
The new edition of this intensive language-immersion course has been updated with new references, and up-to-date vocabulary and idioms. The program package consists of a textbook and a set of 12 compact discs. This comprehensive language program is the same as the one used by the U.S. Government to teach Spanish to personnel in the diplomatic service and other internationally related government agencies. Students who complete the course successfully will have much more than a few foreign phrases at their disposal, but will possess a solid understanding of a new language. The program is ideal for classroom instruction but is also designed so that serious individuals who want to become fluent in Spanish can teach themselves. This course teaches every aspect of the language: vocabulary, grammar, conversing, reading, writing, and listening comprehension.Dictionaries & Thesauruses Books
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