Manual Comparative Grammar Of The Spanish Language

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This Spanish Language Manual was designed as a personal guide to lead students between the two languages. The instructional text emphasizes comparative grammar.

Would you like to speak and understand verbal and written Spanish? This new complete guide and exercise manual offers an easy and natural approach to learning Spanish. You will find out that this book will be your best friend in the journey to achieve your goal. Learning a language can be frustrating. I learned English as an adult and the methodology that helped me to cross the bridge from Spanish to English constitutes the structure of this book. I tell you: It can be done! This language guide is a consolidation of my own experience and a proof that it works. I am taking you, by the hand, back through the "language bridge" I traveled a few years ago. On page 26, there is a discussion of the time it takes and how you can monitor your progress. The student of a foreign language should be exposed to "verbal language", to the "written language", and to brief descriptions of the grammatical differences. Learning a secondary language is not a mechanical substitution of words for words. You will learn Spanish with the Joneses "and their friends." You will encounter dialogs where they discuss their daily life and concerns. Follow them through the book and discover how their lives evolve and how they achieve or do not achieve their goals. Will Cora stop nagging her husband? Will Amy be accepted into college? Did the Smiths enjoy their cruise in the Caribbean? Will Amy tell her Facebook friends? Each of the 50 Spanish text samples has associate tables of glossary to reduce the need for a bilingual dictionary. The themes are simple and entertaining: a trip to the Iguassu falls, a hot air balloon ride in Spain, sheep ranches, polo facts, the origin of the commercial apple, and so on. The student should familiarize himself / herself with the sample sentences and study the comparative grammar only to understand the differences. For example, you might already know that the verb "To be" has two forms in Spanish to indicate when something is permanent and when something is temporary. Unit 11 will introduce you to a peculiar form of the past tense in Spanish that indicates when something was done "often or continuously" in the past, instead of only "once". It takes a while to master the concept. Unit 16 discusses the Spanish Subjunctive mood. The Subjunctive is a form of the verb used by the Spanish speaker to express the "intention to influence" what another person does. Because there is no correlation in English, to master this form of the verb requires additional Units 17, 18 and 19. I include many examples, explanations, and exercises to aid in the effort. You will find 200 additional seed-words illustrated in full color and presented, each one, by a different elf. These illustrations appear at random to break the monotony of the text and to provide an additional stimulation to the cognitive part of your brain.

A self-study handbook for English speakers learning Spanish introducing them to English grammar and pointing out the similiarities and differences with Spanish grammar. An elementary comparative grammar which complements any textbook and any method.

Nowadays thousands of grammar books, textbooks, outlines, references and language guides of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French are published year by year. However, all of them teach these languages separately. Here you will find a comparative grammar of the four major Romance languages together based on their grammatical and lexical similarities for you, lovers of foreign languages, to learn and compare Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French simultaneously. It is an audacious endeavor to find or create a novel way of learning to speak several languages and becoming a multilingual person. It took me over 3 years to finish the book. It consists of over 800 pages, 10 chapters covering all the grammatical aspects of these 4 languages. It includes over 1000 examples, 500 easy-to-follow charts and tables. It contains 138 geographical, historical and cultural facts about Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French countries.Below I will discuss several reasons why I decided to write this book and why you need it.1) First of all, this book is written for readers like you who are fond of or would like to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Italian andFrench simultaneously or just to get an all-round knowledge of all these four Romance languages. It is designed not only for beginners who do not have an extensive knowledge of grammar, yet need a guide through the grammatical concepts of all mentioned above languages, but also intermediate and advanced students who would like to have a reference book ofseveral Romance languages at once.2) Second of all I spent many years learning these languages separately, which was a complete waste of time before I realized it. This book will hopefully save you a great deal of time and allow you to study and compare at a glance the four main Neo-Latin languages.3) Knowledge of foreign languages is fast becoming a necessary requirement for those who are involved in international business, tourism, culture and education. This book offers you four languages to learn, which will make you feel at homewherever you go, whether as a tourist or businessman.4) Learning several languages simultaneously or one by one will train and strengthen your memory and can help stave off such terrible diseases as Alzheimer's.5) If you have never studied several languages at once before and you like challenges, then you should definitely try it. Because it is a really entertaining and challenging task to do.In conclusion, I would like to sincerely thank you for preordering the book and your interest in it. I hope it will help you improve your languages and become multilingual.