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Heather Van ShaarHeather Van Shaar: This book is genius and this author really knows how to teach. This is the best book for learning Spanish. I love it. It's so different from your basic Spanish class which just feels like a lot of memorization. She starts by teaching you many words that are the same or similar in English and Spanish that you can use to make sentences and get familiar with the grammar, and then the way she teaches verbs is just amazing. Overall the book basically has you getting the feel for it and coming up with it naturally based on the patterns she teaches. You don't have to sit and memorize things, it just feels so natural and easy. It is like magic. It should be the number one Spanish learning book. My mom lent it to me years ago and I learned so quick with it, and now I bought it again to brush up and because I just need to own it.

United States on Sep 24, 2023

Denise Mahoney: Like the book!

United States on Sep 11, 2023

ksa: The progress I have made in learning spanish concepts and language is remarkable with this book. Starts with past & future tenses to make the leap in actual conversation. Most teaching concepts start with present tense: I, you, he/she/you; we, you, them. This book begins with a huge list of similar english/spanish words then progresses to 'I (had) took, you (had) took, (tomar) This book is a very good tool to have in your tool chest.

United States on Sep 06, 2023

Jim Siverts: What makes this book unique is that it teaches grammar in the right order. The author starts with what will give you the most vocabulary and the verb tenses that are most commonly used in conversation. She then explains the patterns in a way that a 3rd grader can understand it. It’s amazing the difference between this and other grammar books. It’s the only one you’ll ever need.

United States on Aug 04, 2023

Lynne: This learning method makes a change, I'm enjoying it.

Canada on Aug 02, 2023

gill: Great book for learning Spanish. Clear, easy to follow. My son was fluent after using the book for a few months and putting in lots of practice.

United Kingdom on Jul 06, 2023

DileepDileep: If you want to learn Spanish and learn the vocabulary of Spanish, I mean learn, not remember, go for this book. The writer makes you understand how these words are derived from English, and you make your own Spanish words with time. The book is written straightforwardly and interactively. I highly recommend it to anyone who is into Spanish.

India on Jun 10, 2023

brian clare: Really good for beginners or someone wanting to "brush up" before holiday!

United Kingdom on May 26, 2023

Amazon Customer: This book is based on identifying patterns to give you, the learner, the fastest possible entry point into actually usable Spanish:
- how to convert thousands of English words to Spanish equivalents
- how to conjugate verbs in past, present and future - crucially, without trying to kill your enthusiasm with horrendous grammar tables

Conjugations are introduced slowly, so the learner is not faced with table after table of conjugations in all forms. (After all, we didn't learn English by learning grammar first, we learnt it by identifying patterns and then, when we were at school, we learnt grammatical terms and nuances.) In fact, the learner is introduced to the singular forms of only the first person and third person for a good portion of the book.

The learner is introduced to the past tense first, in order that useful expressions can be made from the word go. This is on the grounds that a lot of our conversations in daily life are about the past: what we did at the weekend, last week, last night or this morning, for example.

Everything that is introduced is followed by more than ample opportunity to practice: there are sentences to read and word/phrase...

United Kingdom on May 29, 2017

Drew R.: The media could not be loaded.  In the preface to this book, the author, Margarita Madrigal, promises that if you complete this book, you will then be able to go to a Spanish speaking country and understand them. I will now go that far and agree with the author because I believe that in order to speak and understand Spanish with confidence, you will need a learning-Spanish audio program to supplement this book. But as the author promises, I honestly believe that this book will help you to do the following:

1. Speak Spanish
2. Read Spanish
3. Write in Spanish
4. Think in Spanish

There are so many things that I like about this book. For starters, the author of this book uses a very interesting method to help you quickly learn Spanish. What she does is teach the reader how to add hundreds and hundreds of Spanish words to his or her vocabulary by simply using the English words that you already know. For example, did you already know that the following words are both Spanish and English words:

Actor
Popular
Animal
Capital
hotel
Radio
Conductor
Probable
Cable
Ideal
Flexible

The only difference is the pronunciation...

United States on Jun 21, 2016