Practice Makes Perfect Beginning Spanish with CD-ROM - Softcover

Gordon, Ronni; Stillman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071638652 ISBN 13: 9780071638654

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2011

Synopsis

Drop boring language courses and learn Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia course!

Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish gives you an all-encompassing learning experience. You'll immerse yourself in extensive audio practice and written exercises, giving you the guidance and support you need to master the basic structures of Spanish.

This dynamic package features:

• A downloadable program with more than 400 dialogues and audio exercises
• Concise grammar explanations and a comprehensive glossary for quick reference
• A workbook with more than 140 written exercises that reinforce the downloadable program
• More than ten hours of audio recordings that can be downloaded to your MP3 player

  Topics include: Finding Your Way Around―Hay, Describing Places and Things―Adjectives, Talking about Nationalities and Professions, Food and Film―Ser, Describing People, Emotions, and Health―Ser and Estar, Talking about Work and Play―Ir and Hacer, Talking about What you Need and What you Know, Shopping and Cooking―Saber and Conocer, Entertaining at Home―Tener, Your Daily Routine―Reflexive Verbs, Talking about Trips, Your Likes and Dislikes―The Preterite, Talking about your Childhood―The Imperfect, Health and Accidents―The Imperfect and the Preterite, At School and the Office―Comparatives and Superlatives, Business and The Cost of Living―The Present Perfect and the Past Perfect, Giving and Following Directions―The Imperative, Plans for the Holidays―The Future and Conditional, Talking about Relationships, Making Judgments―The Present Subjunctive

About this title

About the Author

Ronni L. Gordon, PhD, is a prominent author of foreign language textbooks, reference books, and instructional multimedia programs. She is vice president of Mediatheque Publisher Services, a leader in the development of foreign language instructional materials. She holds a PhD in Spanish language and Spanish and Spanish American literature from Rutgers University, and has taught and coordinated Spanish language programs and taught Spanish American literature at Harvard University and Boston University. An education consultant, she has read in foreign languages for the National Endowment for the Humanities, presented at the United States Department of Education, and consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages. She is an associate scholar of a Philadelphia-based think tank and is chairman of the board of directors of Dolce Suono Ensemble.

David M. Stillman, PhD, is a well-known writer of foreign langauge textbooks, reference books, and instructional multimedia programs. He is president of Mediatheque Publisher Services, a leader in the development of foreign language instructional materials. He holds a PhD in Spanish linguistics from the University of Illinois, and has taught and coordinated foreign language programs at Boston University, Harvard, and Cornell. He teaches languages and linguistics and coordinates an innovative program of student-led conversation practice at The College of New Jersey. He is a frequent presenter at national and regional conventions of language educators, has consulted on states' K-12 academic standards for world languages, and has been appointed to national committees devoted to the improvement of teacher training.

The Gordon-Stillman author team has written more than forty foreign language textbooks, multimedia courses, and reference books.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0071638652
• ISBN 13: 9780071638654
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288