Best books to start off with?

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KJK

#1935 Tue, 29 Nov 05 11:34 AM

Hi I seriousely want to start learning spanish on my own now, not really learning how to speak it, but understanding and reading.

I figured buying books with vocabulary and grammer exersises would be the best way to start... now does anyone know of good books that would make the start easy?

Thanks for your help!

KJK

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KGB

#1983 Wed, 30 Nov 05 11:29 PM

In my opinion you really don't need books to start learning Spanish. You can find Spanish to English online dictionaries. Take simple Spanish article and try to understand it with the help of these dictionaries. You can play the sound to learn how to say it in Spanish.

Following is the links which will help you start learning Spanish.

//www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm Dictionary

http://www.spanicity.com/

You can also find free software downloads on internet.

KGB

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KJK

#1990 Thu, 01 Dec 05 01:35 PM

Thanks for your help but the problem is that I don't have internet at home Sad

So I would like to have some books I can sit down with at home... any ideas?

KJK

Klavier

#2011 Sat, 03 Dec 05 12:02 AM

You could try the FSI language courses (Spanish). I hear they are useful.

Klavier

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Anonymous

#2031 Mon, 05 Dec 05 07:10 AM

Hi KGB,

These are great web sites to begin. Thanks a lot.

Anonymous

KJK

#2032 Mon, 05 Dec 05 11:15 AM

I think I will check those out, thank you!

Does anyone else have experience with those?

KJK

Sven

#2033 Mon, 05 Dec 05 11:25 AM

Hello,

I just bought Berlitz New Basic Spanish which includes 3 CDs, a course book, an audioscript and a learners guide...

We shall see how quickly and well I learn Spanish with that! For any other book suggestions I would be thankfull as well!

Sven

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Mylam

#2035 Mon, 05 Dec 05 11:37 AM

I would recon that childrens books would be a great thing to start off with... something like "my fist 1000 words" to get some vocabulary done Wink

Mylam

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Woodward Chile

#2037 Mon, 05 Dec 05 12:24 PM

I agree. Children Books are always good to start with. They don't use 'difficult' vocabulary, usually the essential words that are normally used in every day life (apart from the odd dragon or purple flying cow that we don't use that much ;) ). Kiddies authors are not normally out to use wonderful poetic sentence structures with double / hidden meanings or similar. Kids tend to get bored when it gets too complex, so the authors use only what it necessary, hence the vocabulary that you need to know.

Besides, they're a lot of fun too!

Woodward Chile

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