Excellent beginning reader to improve your Spanish. There are very helpful exercises dispersed throughout the book and I found that the ones I did dramatically improved my abilities. I'm going to read it again and this time complete all the exercises, it ought to go a lot quicker this time now that I've worked my way all the through. I highly recommend this book to any one wanting to achieve the NEXT level of their Spanish learning. Date staring second reading March 12, 2016