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| FLD315 Senior Member United States Joined 5472 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 5 18 April 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Can anyone recommend a good college-level Spanish textbook? I'm just getting back into
the language after a break of a few years. Also using Pimsleur and planning on FSI. (Sorry about multiple posts but I put this in the wrong forum at first) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7195 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 5 18 April 2013 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have Destinos which, along with the videos on-line at Annenberg learner.org provide an excellent self-study, college level textbook. I also plan to use Assimil Spanish with Ease, which I purchased sometime ago.
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| berabero89 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4641 days ago 101 posts - 137 votes Speaks: English, Amharic* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 3 of 5 19 April 2013 at 3:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil Spanish with Ease will get you up to a nice start, provided you do it every day.
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| Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4549 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 5 19 April 2013 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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The language in Assimil Spanish w/ Ease is so distinctly Peninsular that I couldn't
recommend it as the sole beginning course for someone unless they specifically wanted to focus on the Spanish of Spain, which would be an uncommon preference in the US. I 2nd the recommendation for Destinos (plus the 2 workbooks that go with it;) another good option is Living Language's Ultimate Spanish Beginner-Intermediate (Basic- Intermediate in earlier editions; same content.) This is a full textbook course; the CD's are supplementary but highly recommended. It's out of print but there are lots of used ones still floating around out there; on Amazon the book alone can be bought dirt- cheap and the book/cd set for a very reasonable price (at the moment.) It's designed for self-teaching, not the classroom, but covers most everything that would be taught over 4 semesters in college. Both of these courses will expose you to a variety of accents, and the vocabulary used is more international as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| berabero89 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4641 days ago 101 posts - 137 votes Speaks: English, Amharic* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 5 of 5 20 April 2013 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||
I used Spanish with Ease as a beginning course, but I still aim to talk in a more neutral Spanish, so what I did was ignore the z/s distinction and speak in seseo and yeísmo. As far as vocabulary goes, I looked up comparison charts and learned the region-specific vocabulary that way and I also stopped using the present perfect in cases where the preterite would seem more natural to me anyway. I've been satisfied with the result.If Destinos is used in tandem, I don't see any reason why Spanish with Ease shouldn't be used. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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