Practical Spoken Spanish - Second Edition - Revised and Enlarged

Kercheville, F. M. Ph.D.

Published by The University Press, Albuquerque, New Mexco, 1934

About this Item

130 Pages. This text, is the direct result of several years experience in teaching Spanish in the classroom, in newspapers, and over the radio. The author has long felt that there is a growing need and an insistent demand for a simple, easy, practical text in conversational Spanish, which would present only the very minimum essentials of grammar. Such a handbook of spoken Spanish should stress pronunciation, vocabulary building, and usable idioms and sentences. It is hoped that this brief text fills the need and answers the demand. In writing this book the author has purposely departed from the usual procedure in such cases. This text illustrates the natural method of learning a laguage. The book is so planned that the first five lessons deal exclusively with sounds and pronunciation. They stress particularly the differences between the pronunciation of Spanish and that of English. The next ten lessons deal entirely with vocabulary building (words and phrases), simple reading, and conversation. The material of this section deals largely with our neighbor republic to the south, Mexico. The formal treatment of the minimum essentials of grammar is left for the next ten lessons of the book, in a section dealing largely with Central and South' America. The reading material in the last twenty-five lessons is based on our own American Southwest. In this way it is hoped that those using the text will first acquire a knowledge of pronunciation, after which they are given a chance to build a workable vocabulary from easy reading material and brief questions and answers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Practical Spoken Spanish - Second Edition - Revised and Enlarged
• Publisher: The University Press, Albuquerque, New Mexco
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Revised and Enlarged Second Edition
• Condition: Good