Living Spanish: A Grammar-Based Course - Softcover

Littlewood, R. P.; Martin, Rosa Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444153943 ISBN 13: 9781444153941

Publisher: John Murray Language, 2015

Synopsis

This new 5th edition includes an up-to-date culture and vocabulary guide, allowing you to broaden your knowledge of contemporary language and customs.

Do you want to learn Spanish or brush up what you know already? Are you looking for a course with a traditional approach to language learning, based on solid grammatical foundations, translation skills and practical vocabulary? If so, this is the course for you.

The material covers a variety of everyday topics in a simple, concise manner. There are plenty of examples and explanations to illustrate how the language works and to build confidence. Each unit, designed to build systematically on what you have already learned, contains:

- clear grammar explanations
- vocabulary lists
- reading material consisting of a story, dialogue or letter
- questions for speaking practice
- exercises
- 32pp test-yourself section giving you extra practice and allowing you to monitor your progress as you go through the course, helping you keep on top of tricky grammar points and regularly testing the vocabulary you're learning.

There are also revision units to help you practise what you are learning. At the back of the book, an exercise key enables you to check your answers while grammar and vocabulary sections provide a useful reference.

The accompanying audio will help you with listening and speaking. In addition to a full pronunciation section, it contains reading passages and dialogues from the course book, followed by comprehension questions in Spanish, together with model answers.

Download our free app, Teach Yourself Library, from the App Store or Google Play to access the free audio.

About this title

About the Author

Rosa Marí­a Martí­n, who has revised R. P. Littlewood's original course, is Director of the Language Learning Unit at Queen Mary and Westfield College and an experienced language teacher and adviser. She is a best-selling author and co-author of several language-teaching series, including the four-part schools Spanish course Aventura Nueva.

Review

"it is so well laid out, so succinct, so intelligently crafted!"―amazon.co.uk user review

"this will get you going on a solid foundation of understanding language from the ground up"―amazon.co.uk user review

"A joy to study ... I love the rigour of the grammatical approach"―amazon.co.uk user review

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray Language
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1444153943
• ISBN 13: 9781444153941
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 432