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Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and proverbs based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, and other noted writers. Complete and faithful English translations are featured on the facing pages of the Spanish text. Exercises are also included.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm very impressed with this book. You would think that one dual language book would be very much like any other. Wrong! This is by far the best Spanish reader that I have in my library- the stories are interesting, informative and funny and, most importantly, have been selected to provide just the right level of challenge to someone with a slightly better than basic level of Spanish.
If you can conjugate verbs, present, preterite and future (and if you can form the gerund)then you will find this book just right to help you get used to the style and structure of this beautiful, yet formal, language.
It also, through the 41 stories, proverbs and poems gives an insight that I found interesting and rewarding, into the Spanish character. The story "Padre, Hijo o Caballo?" is very funny and it is worth buying the book just for this yarn alone.
Highly recommended for beginner to intermediate level estudiantes de espanol.
If you can conjugate verbs, present, preterite and future (and if you can form the gerund)then you will find this book just right to help you get used to the style and structure of this beautiful, yet formal, language.
It also, through the 41 stories, proverbs and poems gives an insight that I found interesting and rewarding, into the Spanish character. The story "Padre, Hijo o Caballo?" is very funny and it is worth buying the book just for this yarn alone.
Highly recommended for beginner to intermediate level estudiantes de espanol.
49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would say my Spanish is above beginners level, perhaps not quite intermediate. I learnt Spanish by using the Michel Thomas language Cd's, but I wanted to increase my vocabulary, and do something different than just sit with headphones on. The book starts off with very short tales (half a page in length), using very simple conjugations. You can glance at the opposite page if there is a word that you don't know, then try to read the story through without looking at the English. As you work through the stories, the language gets progressively harder, and the conjugations get more advanced. The stories are light hearted and quite nice. A really good feature of this book is that all the vocab that is used, is repeated in the back of the book in alphabetical order. So in a way, its like a book of vocabulary, with some example stories to see if you have learnt it. I like it very much.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had reviewed a few of these Dual Language books and was kind of confused- So I decided on First Spanish Reader and am so delighted with it.. I am amazed how far I have come in 2wks..I am trying to learn Spanish on my own and had kind of come to a brick wall..didn't know where to go next..so this book is so helpful.. when you come across various words and you need translation well these words are all on the back of the book A-Z..only thing I would have liked is answers to questions as I do not know if I'm right or wrong in Verb terms.. otherwise 10/10-
and as for Amazon themselves delivery in 2-3dys - excellent service..
I would love if someone could recommend a similiar book like this one..not too hard but not too easy either..kinda middle of the road one..
and as for Amazon themselves delivery in 2-3dys - excellent service..
I would love if someone could recommend a similiar book like this one..not too hard but not too easy either..kinda middle of the road one..
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Old-fashioned
This book is very old-fashioned, and I found that was quite off-putting. I would not recommend this book for beginners, but would instead advise to try something more modern with... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dodita
first spanish reader
the book is definitely not for the beginners. i bought it when I thought of myself as of a beginner and I couldn't make it through the first pages so I put it away. Read more
Published 6 months ago by zuzana
begginers spanish
Would not say this is a beginners book. if you are just starting to learn the language would not reccommend. Otherwhise it has a good layout and format.
Published 6 months ago by Ian Wilson
Great!
I love these books. At first I was reading the Spanish AND the English pages. Now I only read the Spanish pages. I'll be buying more of these little gems!
Published 7 months ago by Skater Gal
Hard
I have been studying Spanish at home by myself with the help of Michel Thomas et al and thought I was ready for a bit of Spanish reading... well it looks very hard to me! Read more
Published 14 months ago by Roo
First Spanish Reader
Bought for a friend- didn't read all the stories but I get the impression that you learn a lot of historical spanish culture, and therefore it is useful and more interesting than... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Lorna
A step out of time
Two main disappointments about this book. The first to hit me is the quality of printing. To start with, I was wondering why there was an asterisk and what strange letter was... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Annelize
rubbish
The stories were boring and were like thay were written 500 years ago and the language used was irrelavent and archaic. Read more
Published 22 months ago by ieithgi
improving your Spanish?
As a student of learning Spanish, at not a high standard, I did not find this book of barely any use. Read more
Published 23 months ago
brilliant book for the learner
This is a fantastic little book for the learner of Spanish. You can read confidentially knowing if you're stuck you can just glance across the page. Has helped me tremendously.
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by A. Chapman
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