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Complete language confidence without stepping into a classroom

With Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course, you can learn the language from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. This fully revised and updated course introduces you to practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone new, shopping, and other every day activities. Includes two 75-minute audio CDs with listening and speaking exercises.

Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course (Book + 2CD's) (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)
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Good, Solid Introduction to Spanish   Review Date: July 30, 2002 Reviewer: M. Sonderegger, I have an earlier edition of this book, but I assume not much has been changed in this edition. This book is a good, solid introduction to Spanish. It's not a quick fix - there's lots of grammar, vocab., dialogues, etc., but if you're willing to spend some time reading, memorizing, and practicing, this book has most of what you need to know to begin speaking grammatically correct Spanish. Best book ever   Review Date: September 2, 2005 Reviewer: Cindy, California, USA N.B. This review may not apply to first-time language learners, but if you already know another romance language then read on... While studying abroad in Italy, I took a trip to Spain for a week. I picked up the only book written in English about learning Spanish that I could find in Florence, and started going through the book about two weeks before I left for my trip. While in Spain, I spoke nothing but Spanish and had almost no communication problems. While Italian and Spanish are quite similar, I still think the book was great - it teaches you the structure of the language as well as vocabulary, allowing you to not just mindlessly repeat memorizations from a phrasebook, but instead successfully put together exactly what you want to say based on knowledge of the actual language. Highly, highly recommended! This is an impressive program.   Review Date: August 10, 2006 Reviewer: Carol L. Zdeba, Ridgecrest, CA United States I have reviewed many learn Spanish C/D's, tapes, books, etc. I think this is probably one of the best programs out there. It is designed for people traveling in Spain and uses Castillan Spanish. Great selfstudy book, great value for money!   Review Date: September 7, 2008 Reviewer: J. Elmarasy, Netherlands Have recently purchased this book and am very satisfied. It is very complete, covering the basics with dialogues supported by audio recordings. It also includes grammar rules that pop up in each chapter throughout the dialogues. The way it is built up is very clear and intuitive to me. I am a beginner, and just started chapter 4 now. I have bought Puentes, and practiced with Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur. Pimsleur (audio) takes too long, Rosetta stone (visual, sort of like 'memory' game) misses the basic dialogues and grammar rules, Puentes is useless without a teacher. For all those much more expensive courses...I find this method superiour. And it costs under 20 US$! Will visit South America in a few months, and this book really gets me up to a certain level fast by selfstudy before starting my spanish course there. Highly recommended!! Teach yourself Spanish book/cds   Review Date: February 14, 2010 Reviewer: Gregory Vance, Perth, Australia Price was good and delivery was quick. It was good to be notified when it was sent. Even though the postage to Australia ($16) was more than the cost of the set ($14) it was still less than half the cost of buying the exact same thing in shops here! How they can justify charging $50 or even $70 for these Teach Yourself sets in shops in Australia is nothing less than incredible. Got me through Central and South America - can't complain!   Review Date: March 16, 2010 Reviewer: Kieran Fox, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Most of the complaints I see on this page are regarding the audio portion. I have an earlier edition though I assume it is quite similar, and I found it second hand and so didn't have the audio portion. This is really irrelevant! Pronouncing Spanish really isn't difficult - it must be one of the world's easiest languages, especially if you already are a native speaker of English - there are many similarities. I used this book to self-study as I backpacked through Central and South America this year and within a couple of days I was traveling alone without any real problems. By the end of my trip I could have simple conversations, and I learned almost all of it from this book. It begins very, VERY simply in little baby steps, so simple that it almost feels just like reading a book rather than 'studying' anything. By the first half you have all the basics you need to get around traveling (and conveniently, much of it is focused on traveling needs and questions, etc.). The second half gets progressively more dense and difficult, but then that's what you want after you've got the basics down, right? All in all I thought it was great, and the use of real newspaper articles, conversations, drawings and cartoons and so on to aid your memory is I think a great idea (and I'm pretty sure proven to work, though I couldn't cite the research off the top of my head - engaging multiple modalities during learning or something...?). Excellent for a beginner.