Has Good and Bad Points/Prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish | Spanish for Dummies

A single book is not sufficient to study a language | Spanish for Dummies | Susana Wald

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	• Spanish for Dummies Susana Wald For Dummies, 1999 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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Great introductory but in no way takes the place of any class

The book is broken up into chapters mainly based on different social situations you might encounter. In this respect, the book gives gives useful vocabulary and conversational illustrations.

The first chapter is devoted to to pronunciation and the 2nd to grammer. Even with this chapter on grammer, I thought the book fell short of explaining the needed grammatical rules and in addressing verb conjugations in an productive manner. They jump right in to present, past, and future verb tenses and never quite explain why the words are ordered the way they are in various sentences. I was left to wonder what various words were in and why they were at the front, in the back, or attached to the end of a verb.

I did like that they have little boxes explaining the differences between the spanish spoken in different countries since I was planning to use my spanish in Argentina.

Overall a good book if you're travelling and just want to be able to use the language in limited social situations without really understanding the why and how of the language.

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Has Good and Bad Points/Prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish

Spanish for Dummies has strengths and weaknesses but is hardly what I would consider
all that easy and effective.
If you really want to learn a lot of Spanish very quickly and without a lot of hassle I would recommend you try Behind the Wheel Spanish. It is a much more user friendly course and comes with both a book and CDs.
Spanish for Dummies does teach a good deal of Spanish but I don't like the layout nearly as much as Behind the Wheel Spanish.

A single book is not sufficient to study a language

As another reviewer wrote - one has to hear the pronounciation, which is why I recommend buying this book with the "BMV Quantum Subliminal CD: Learn Spanish Language"

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Spanish for Dummies

I really haven't looked at it page by page, but for what I wanted it for, it doesn't seem like it is going to help

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