If you are a beginner at Spanish, let me tell you right now you already know hundreds of words in Spanish.

Once you understand how to pronounce the letters in the alphabet, you’ll know how to say the words that you’re reading in Spanish.

I’m the kind of learner that needs to know the why behind the action/words and this book is amazing when it comes to that. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Très bon livre pour apprendre l'espagnol, sans avoir à mémoriser une centaine de règles grammaticales, comme c'est souvent le cas avec les livres d'apprentissage de langues. Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigals unique method of teaching a foreign language. One reviewer has said that the book is too long but I would temper that view with the knowledge that the increase in volume is actually due to these many examples of usage and word/phrase combination drills.Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigal's unique method of teaching a foreign language.

J'aimerais tellement que plus de livres soit structuré de la même façon, cela permettrait aux autres d'apprendre plus rapidement et sans se décourager.It then moves on to teach you grammar in a very novel way, none of the boring conjungations that had to be learnt by rote when doing languages at school. There is a method provided in this book that helps the learner to understand WHY it is spoken in this way, for instance, the work Tome, meaning to take but in Spanish it means to eat or drink something so instead of saying “I ate a sandwich” one would say “I took the sandwich” give or take (forgive me if that’s not 100% I’m still learning”I’m the kind of learner that needs to know the why behind the action/words and this book is amazing when it comes to that. She later was employed as a tutor for the FBI, The Rockefeller Institute, Time Life International, and other important political and military figures of her time. Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and graphic artist before he became well-known as a Pop artist and celebrity. Listening to native speakers, sounding out words and practicing your pronunciation, studying vocabulary.

I am no language savant (a fact, sadly, not false modesty), but I am a linguistic enthusiast and, having sought out, and used, beginner level materials for Russian, Japanese, Italian, Greek and Amharic and having taken French (A level) and German (O level) at school/college (a long, long time ago :-D), I can say that this book is better at getting the learner up and running with usable language than any other book or online resource that I have found to date, by a country mile. Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you-. To being able to form sentences and make more sense of things in my head when it comes to forming sentences out loud. Learn the basics of the Spanish language with this easy-to-use guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol-from one of America's most prominent language teachers.Spanish is a phonetic language, so once you understand how the different letters are pronounced, it’s effortless to read a word the correct way. Some reviewers have pointed to the South American bias of this book as being a problem for anyone wishing to speak Spanish in mainland Spain but I have found no such issues in the dozen or so times that I have visited Spain.