Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts)

Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts) | Various, John L. King | Great Way Not Only to Learn Spanish But Also To Reinforce the Spanish You Learn

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	Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text (New Penguin Parallel Texts) Various, John L. King Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Reflecting the variety of modern Spanish literature, these stories range from the sharp insights of Gabriel García Marquez's María dos Prazeres to Isabel Allende's powerful evocation of the oral traditions of the Amerindian Walimai, the deceptive simplicity of Javier Marías's On the Honeymoon, and the philosophical speculation of Laura Freixas's Absurd Ending.

Excellent learning tool

This book begins with easy stories, mostly in present tense. It progresses to more difficult stories. The stories are by Latino authors, so you have the additional bonus of Latino culture with the stories. The back of the book gives brief information about the authors. It includes exercises, some to be answered orally and others written, and a Spanish glossary. It's a good tool to have in your "bag of tricks" for learning and improving your Spanish.

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Great Way Not Only to Learn Spanish But Also To Reinforce the Spanish You Learn

Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R30ENORWAMOD6W Here's my video review of Short Stories in Spanish.

I am also listing what I would consider the 4 most important learning-Spanish resources availalbe for self-study which I think you will not only enjoy but also benefit from if you love learning Spanish as much as I do:

1. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns And Prepositions This book covers the proper usage of Pronouns and Prepositions and just like Spanish Verb Tenses, you will find plenty of exercises to improve your Spanish-language skills.

2. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses This is a must have book for learning how to conjugate Spanish verbs for both beginners and advanced students. You will want to read it from cover to cover and then keep it as a learning-Spanish resource.

3. Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1 (2 volume set) This is the self-study course that I would recommend for someone that needs to immediately learn how to speak Spanish in order to communicate with Spanish-speakers that have recently arrived in the U.S or for someone that expects to be speaking to people in familiar situations in Latin America. This course comes closer to teaching the colluquial or familiar style of conversational Spanish that you will hear native speakers use among themselves. I like the fact that they only use native Spanish speakers in this course.

4. The Big Red Book of Spanish Verbs with CD-ROM, Second Edition This is a must have book for learning how to conjugate hundreds of Spanish verbs in the various tenses. But if you already have 501 Spanish Verbs: with CD-ROM (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) then you can skip this book.

By the way, if you like learning Spanish by reading, you may also like
First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides) and Easy Spanish Reader

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Challenging for Beginners

I love, love, love the Allende story, but generally found the stories selected for this book dark and depressing. No matter, I'm sure that many won't agree with me. I just want to note that the vocabulary and sentence structure can be pretty challenging (I'm about intermediate), so this might not be suitable for beginners, but might be just what someone who is more advanced is looking for.

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