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Complete Spanish Workbook For Adult Beginners: Essential Spanish Words And Phrases You Must Know
Learning a brand new language, especially Spanish, can seem extremely daunting for students. Unfortunately, 80% of students give up before ever becoming conversationally fluent in Spanish... which means they’ll never be able to unlock and experience all the amazing social treasures the language provides.
It’s not the students who are to blame though, in actuality, it is the majority of Spanish language products on the market today. Most learning guides and workbooks will carelessly dispense a dizzyingly disorganized list of Spanish words in front of you like lottery numbers and expect that to be enough to sow the seeds of conversational fluency.
This is why we teamed up with a world-class Spanish coach—who is responsible for teaching celebrities, politicians, and over 1,000+ students Spanish quickly, acing their assessments and surpassing all their goals—to bring you this ultimate Spanish workbook - consciously curated to make you conversational, fast!
In order to transform your Spanish-speaking capabilities, this workbook includes very specific elements inside, such Plus, you'll receive 3 incredible bonuses only found The benefits of learning Spanish are truly mind-blowing; it gives you the tools you need to boost your happiness exponentially, keep your brain sharp with your memory intact, and enrich all aspects of your life—especially socializing!
The good news is you can get started now, and enjoy all these benefits simply by cracking open the covers of this book.
Never again will you have to worry about being one of those students that have a difficult time comprehending Spanish and eventually just give up.
Instead, do yourself a favor by opening your mind to all the amazing benefits Spanish will have on your life, by purchasing your copy of this, the ultimate Spanish workbook, today!
It’s not the students who are to blame though, in actuality, it is the majority of Spanish language products on the market today. Most learning guides and workbooks will carelessly dispense a dizzyingly disorganized list of Spanish words in front of you like lottery numbers and expect that to be enough to sow the seeds of conversational fluency.
This is why we teamed up with a world-class Spanish coach—who is responsible for teaching celebrities, politicians, and over 1,000+ students Spanish quickly, acing their assessments and surpassing all their goals—to bring you this ultimate Spanish workbook - consciously curated to make you conversational, fast!
In order to transform your Spanish-speaking capabilities, this workbook includes very specific elements inside, such Plus, you'll receive 3 incredible bonuses only found The benefits of learning Spanish are truly mind-blowing; it gives you the tools you need to boost your happiness exponentially, keep your brain sharp with your memory intact, and enrich all aspects of your life—especially socializing!
The good news is you can get started now, and enjoy all these benefits simply by cracking open the covers of this book.
Never again will you have to worry about being one of those students that have a difficult time comprehending Spanish and eventually just give up.
Instead, do yourself a favor by opening your mind to all the amazing benefits Spanish will have on your life, by purchasing your copy of this, the ultimate Spanish workbook, today!
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Published May 12, 2021
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December 29, 2022
It's lacking a lot of Info for a Beginner's book. Would not recommend!
As a workbook, you'd expect some information to work with. Let me explain.
First problem is that there was a typo in the beginning, when the Spanish sentence had the word venticuatro the translation said 'twenty-five'. And that's in the first chapter.
Second, the issue of not having enough information. For me, I've been practicing on Duolingo and SpanishDict.com to learn different verbs and conjugations and more. So, already knowing that helped me to understand this book on some parts. Sure, I learned some extra words I hadn't learned yet, but if you don't already know some you'll get confused.
A workbook, when giving you exercises should help to provide the information prior to asking: verbs conjugation, translations to all words used in exercises.
A workbook should not ask to translate say: Cantar; but not have the chart. Such as (semi-paraphrasing): translate Cantar to the preterite indefinite conjugation in first person singular and plural. You should have the ability to see the answer before doing the exercises. You're not learning well if you have to look at the answer key. Mind you, they only have the present tense conjugation charts for yo, tú, él/ella/Usted, nosotros, and ustedes/ellas/ellos. Of course, both usted and ustedes are the same form as the ones I used slashes beside it, but they divided it, probably for the understanding of you.
But there's no conjugation chart for "ar", "er", and "ir" in the preterite (past tense) form. A new learner (AKA beginner) would have no idea that conjugation changed.
Now, near the end of the chapter, the author expects their beginners to fully understand Spanish well enough to read through three paragraphs of Spanish. The beginners, or even semi-less-than proficient learners, would have to either pick up a Spanish dictionary whether physical or online, to get an understanding of it because it's not translated. The next story is translated though. But one who just started and the insufficient teaching doesn't entail enough without skimming or going back and forth. Even still, it might not help the learner get a full understanding of what's being told, word for word, or why certain sentences are structured in a certain way. I'm speaking of both the dialogue portion in the other chapter, and the story portion.
Translation via SpanishDict (Chapter 3, before Presenting Pablo, a Student From Uruguay:)
Esto se hace con el objetivo de que podamos ver un ejemplo de varios párrafos en un formato que incluya la mayoría de los contenidos y enseñanzas que hemos visto en este capítulo.
Translate: This is done so that we can see an example of several paragraphs in a format that includes most of the content and teachings we have seen in this chapter.
(Note: Objetivo=objective; mayoria=majority)
Sin duda alguna, esto nos ayudará mucho a poder interpretar ciertas cosas y a que podamos tener mucha práctica a través de la lectura y de la pronunciación.
Translate: Without a doubt, this will help us a lot to be able to interpret certain things and that we can have a lot of practice through reading and pronunciation.
(Note: la lectura = the lecture)
Como dijimos en el capítulo anterior, lo ideal es que leamos el siguiente párrafo en voz alta para que estemos practicando nuestro nivel de lectura en español, al igual que nuestro nivel de speaking, que son dos de los elementos más importantes cuando estamos aprendiendo un nuevo idioma.
Translate: As we said in the previous chapter, the ideal is that we read the next paragraph aloud so that we are practicing our reading level in Spanish, as well as our speaking level, which are two of the most important elements when we are learning a new language.
(Note: igual = equal/same)
Esto nos va a permitir saber e identificar dónde podemos introducir cada una de las cosas que hemos ido aprendiendo a través de este capítulo para que así podamos tener un mejor nivel en nuestro español.
Translate: This will allow us to know and identify where we can introduce each of the things we have been learning through this chapter so that we can have a better level in our Spanish.
The author didn't translate all those paragraphs, and I post it as an example of what the reader would see, excluding the translation and notes I provided via the help of the source aforementioned.
Chapter 4 gives charts of some future simple conjugation of "ar", "er", and "ir" verbs. Except, the first one, they don't even bother to say which verbs it's breaking down in its different forms or it's moaning.
That's another issue, it's when they do actually make the charts, they don't translate directly what it means.
As a workbook, you'd expect some information to work with. Let me explain.
First problem is that there was a typo in the beginning, when the Spanish sentence had the word venticuatro the translation said 'twenty-five'. And that's in the first chapter.
Second, the issue of not having enough information. For me, I've been practicing on Duolingo and SpanishDict.com to learn different verbs and conjugations and more. So, already knowing that helped me to understand this book on some parts. Sure, I learned some extra words I hadn't learned yet, but if you don't already know some you'll get confused.
A workbook, when giving you exercises should help to provide the information prior to asking: verbs conjugation, translations to all words used in exercises.
A workbook should not ask to translate say: Cantar; but not have the chart. Such as (semi-paraphrasing): translate Cantar to the preterite indefinite conjugation in first person singular and plural. You should have the ability to see the answer before doing the exercises. You're not learning well if you have to look at the answer key. Mind you, they only have the present tense conjugation charts for yo, tú, él/ella/Usted, nosotros, and ustedes/ellas/ellos. Of course, both usted and ustedes are the same form as the ones I used slashes beside it, but they divided it, probably for the understanding of you.
But there's no conjugation chart for "ar", "er", and "ir" in the preterite (past tense) form. A new learner (AKA beginner) would have no idea that conjugation changed.
Now, near the end of the chapter, the author expects their beginners to fully understand Spanish well enough to read through three paragraphs of Spanish. The beginners, or even semi-less-than proficient learners, would have to either pick up a Spanish dictionary whether physical or online, to get an understanding of it because it's not translated. The next story is translated though. But one who just started and the insufficient teaching doesn't entail enough without skimming or going back and forth. Even still, it might not help the learner get a full understanding of what's being told, word for word, or why certain sentences are structured in a certain way. I'm speaking of both the dialogue portion in the other chapter, and the story portion.
Translation via SpanishDict (Chapter 3, before Presenting Pablo, a Student From Uruguay:)
Esto se hace con el objetivo de que podamos ver un ejemplo de varios párrafos en un formato que incluya la mayoría de los contenidos y enseñanzas que hemos visto en este capítulo.
Translate: This is done so that we can see an example of several paragraphs in a format that includes most of the content and teachings we have seen in this chapter.
(Note: Objetivo=objective; mayoria=majority)
Sin duda alguna, esto nos ayudará mucho a poder interpretar ciertas cosas y a que podamos tener mucha práctica a través de la lectura y de la pronunciación.
Translate: Without a doubt, this will help us a lot to be able to interpret certain things and that we can have a lot of practice through reading and pronunciation.
(Note: la lectura = the lecture)
Como dijimos en el capítulo anterior, lo ideal es que leamos el siguiente párrafo en voz alta para que estemos practicando nuestro nivel de lectura en español, al igual que nuestro nivel de speaking, que son dos de los elementos más importantes cuando estamos aprendiendo un nuevo idioma.
Translate: As we said in the previous chapter, the ideal is that we read the next paragraph aloud so that we are practicing our reading level in Spanish, as well as our speaking level, which are two of the most important elements when we are learning a new language.
(Note: igual = equal/same)
Esto nos va a permitir saber e identificar dónde podemos introducir cada una de las cosas que hemos ido aprendiendo a través de este capítulo para que así podamos tener un mejor nivel en nuestro español.
Translate: This will allow us to know and identify where we can introduce each of the things we have been learning through this chapter so that we can have a better level in our Spanish.
The author didn't translate all those paragraphs, and I post it as an example of what the reader would see, excluding the translation and notes I provided via the help of the source aforementioned.
Chapter 4 gives charts of some future simple conjugation of "ar", "er", and "ir" verbs. Except, the first one, they don't even bother to say which verbs it's breaking down in its different forms or it's moaning.
That's another issue, it's when they do actually make the charts, they don't translate directly what it means.
June 23, 2021
Mired in Odd Metalanguage
The subtitle of this book makes you think it will be of essential Spanish words and phrases. Indeed, in the introduction, the author reiterates this point, even going so far as to say that you will need to learn little in the way of grammatical constructs and conjugations. But the bulk of the book came across to me as just that. It also spent a fair amount of time on pronunciation. The book certainly has some essential words and phrases, but the author seems to assume a lot for a book supposedly for adult beginners. I am a bit of a language nerd myself, but even I didn't know some of the arcane words for, say, tenses in Spanish like “preterite imperfect,” and only because of my knowledge from taking French and German in high school and college did I figure what he was talking about when he discussed “diaeresis umlaut.” (Although he incorrectly called it both a diaeresis and an umlaut, which isn’t true; two dots horizontally above a letter is called a diaeresis when used in Spanish and is a pronunciation guide.) While the author calls this a workbook, it really isn't in the truest sense, though it does have a handful of exercises at the end of chapters. Unless you already have some basis in Spanish and a relatively good vocabulary regarding the language of languages (metalanguage), you may feel like this book is a hard slog, as I did.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
The subtitle of this book makes you think it will be of essential Spanish words and phrases. Indeed, in the introduction, the author reiterates this point, even going so far as to say that you will need to learn little in the way of grammatical constructs and conjugations. But the bulk of the book came across to me as just that. It also spent a fair amount of time on pronunciation. The book certainly has some essential words and phrases, but the author seems to assume a lot for a book supposedly for adult beginners. I am a bit of a language nerd myself, but even I didn't know some of the arcane words for, say, tenses in Spanish like “preterite imperfect,” and only because of my knowledge from taking French and German in high school and college did I figure what he was talking about when he discussed “diaeresis umlaut.” (Although he incorrectly called it both a diaeresis and an umlaut, which isn’t true; two dots horizontally above a letter is called a diaeresis when used in Spanish and is a pronunciation guide.) While the author calls this a workbook, it really isn't in the truest sense, though it does have a handful of exercises at the end of chapters. Unless you already have some basis in Spanish and a relatively good vocabulary regarding the language of languages (metalanguage), you may feel like this book is a hard slog, as I did.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
June 8, 2021
I really enjoyed the workbook it was fun and very helpful with learning enough Spanish to navigate light tourist conversations with confidence. I love the inclusion of the alphabet and that the book runs through common conversations that show both the sentence and correct pronunciation. This is an excellent starting point for learning basic Spanish and a great learning tool.
September 22, 2023
really like
This is really going to help my Spanish learning process. I like to be able to answer questions and take notes
This is really going to help my Spanish learning process. I like to be able to answer questions and take notes
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