Learn Spanish with Grace! The Catholic Approach to Learning Spanish

Learn Spanish with Grace! is a complete beginner's Spanish course a child will always remember. In this delightfully unique, full-color textbook with 3 instructional CDs, the student will learn Spanish via the typical daily routine of the child, Grace. From rising in the morning, through breakfast, school, play and prayers, to welcoming Dad home and going to bed, the student spends a day with Grace, learning, singing and praying in Spanish along the way!

Grace is also the name of the supernatural gift of God which is reinforced through the prayers and moral content of the book. Children will pray for missions, vocations and the Holy Father. This is the Catholic Approach to Learn Spanish with Grace!.

Eleven chapters are filled with 24 entertaining, instructive songs and a wide variety of exercises: matching, cut and paste, crosswords, and mini-booklets on card stock. The 3 CDs provide the student with instructions for every page of the book. The child will listen to the correct pronunciation of Spanish words, essential to correctly learning a Foreign language. This course, geared torwards children from 2nd to 8th grades, will provide a solid foundation of Spanish grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and prayers. This is learning Spanish for a lifetime!

After spending her formative years in Puerto Rico, Miriam Alvarez Gallaher attended Marquette University and graduated with a Spanish Teaching Degree. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin Law School and was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps where she served as a Judge Advocate for 6 years. There she met and married a fellow Marine JAG officer, Patrick Gallaher. They have been blessed with five beautiful children: Rafael, Grace, Mary Margaret, Michael and Joseph.

It was with the desire to teach her children Spanish in a happy and holy manner that Miriam created the Learn Spanish with Grace! series.