Spanish Now! Level 2 with Audio CDs, 3rd Edition
by Christopher Kendris Ph.D.
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Author: Christopher Kendris Ph.D.Brand: Spring Arbor/Ingram
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-15
ISBN: 0764195492
Number of pages: 600
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Book Review: Spanish Now Level 2 Review by James
Summary: 4 Stars
This is James from James Spanish (the learning Spanish blog). This comprehensive work book takes you through a variety of exercises designed to test and strengthen your Spanish skills. Spanish Now! Level 2 is designed for intermediate students who already have a good grasp of basic grammatical elements as well as a working vocabulary. The course takes learning Spanish to the next level, exploring more complex tenses and grammatical concepts.
Although there is some review from Level 1, you should be comfortable with basic grammar and tenses before embarking on this book. The lessons are longer and more demanding, with more theory and less simple exercises. That said, it can be assumed that if you are moving on to Level 2 that you have a desire to strengthen your grasp of Spanish, and this book will certainly help you towards that goal.
Rather than being a plain reading text, this book is more like a classroom workbook, with exercises to be filled in and completed at each stage.
The sample texts at the start of each lesson include all of the vocabulary, which is then thoroughly explained afterwards. In this way, your natural curiosity drives you to learn, in contrast to most other learning formats which provide the bare bones of the language before then giving an example of how they can be used.
Lessons are clearly laid out in a simple format that caters to an intermediate student wanting to learn more, without any of the typical games or tricks used in books for beginner learners.
The book includes many useful reference resources such as a chart for irregular verbs. The focus is on reading and writing Spanish to a high degree of technical accuracy, and gives a good grounding in verbs and grammar.
Don't expect to be able to race through this manual. Take your time to study each element and understand it in order to complete the exercises. In this way you will walk away with a solid understanding of the trickier parts of the Spanish language and be a few steps closer to fluency.
If you have already mastered basic Spanish, have a large amount of vocabulary, and can hold a basic conversation but are looking to improve your sentence structure, and accuracy of speaking and writing the language then this is a great book.
In closing my review of this product, I'd like to share with you the three Amazon products that I have found most helpful in my pursuit to learn Spanish. If you are truly serious about achieving fluency, I'd recommend getting all 3 of them if you can afford it.
1. Lights, Camera, Spanish (Book + DVD): Learn Conversational Spanish by Watching a Romantic Adventure This is actually a 90 minute movie for Spanish-language learners. It gives the option to watch the movie with subtitles but I'd recommend not using them to improve your Spanish. This "movie" also includes a workbook so that you can reinforce the Spanish vocabulary words and phrases from the film. The workbook also has lots of exercises to keep you engaged in the film. But be prepared to hear Chilean accents. Although pleasent to the ear, the accents from Chile are very different from most Latin American accents.
2. Verbarrator Version 1.1 (Windows Version) This software replaces the traditional verb conjugation books and makes learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs an interactive and fun activity. This should be a required resource for anyone who wants to improve their ability to conjugate Spanish verbs. Especially anyone who is challenged by the drudgery of learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs and who is looking for a new way to make learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs an easy and fun activity
3. Diccionario esencial de la lengua espanola de la Real Academia Espanola (Spanish Edition) If you are really serious about speaking the language fluently, then at some point you will need to replace your Spanish-English dictionary and get a pure Spanish dictionary with both the vocabulary words and the definitions entirely in Spanish. I use this one because it was highly-recommended by a friend from Spain who teaches Spanish. According to him, this is the most highly regarded Spanish dictionary among Spanish teachers on the university level.
Summary of Spanish Now! Level 2 with Audio CDs, 3rd Edition
The new, updated edition of this combination textbook and workbook is designed primarily for classroom use on an intermediate level, and can also serve as a college-level review manual or for independent study. It makes an excellent follow-up to Spanish Now! Level 1, but can be used by all students of Spanish who have already learned language fundamentals. Emphasis is on oral proficiency--conversational Spanish and listening comprehension--but it also gives thorough presentation of Spanish grammar, sentence structure, verb usage, advanced vocabulary, and reading and writing ability in Spanish. Work units toward the end of the book are on an advanced level and serve as challenges to students who are very fluent in Spanish. A teacher's manual is presented at the back of the book. New with this edition is an enclosed set of three audio compact discs that provide additional instruction in listening comprehension and correct pronunciation.Spanish Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
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