Next Steps in Spanish
Next Steps in Spanish:
After the first step on this Easiest Foreign Languages web site enables you to read and pronounce thousands of Spanish words similar to English, what should your next steps be?
For adult beginners, reading Spanish is easiest.
Second Step: READING MORE SPANISH. Because English and Easiest Spanish share many words that look alike in print, the easiest ability for you to continue to develop will be reading more in Spanish. You can read at your own pace, unlike being forced to keep up when trying to listen.
Reading Spanish will be helpful if you travel. You will find that reading some Spanish will help enable you to read your way around Spain or Latin America, for example, because finding your way depends so much on reading, even more than speaking and listening.
Third Step: LISTENING. Listening to understand spoken Spanish is more difficult than reading and will develop much more slowly, because the sounds of Spanish differ greatly from English -- and foreigners seem to speak so fast. However, listening to instructional audio as a second step is a good way to begin learning to understand all those Spanish sounds.
Fourth Step: SPEAKING. Speaking Spanish is more difficult to learn than reading or listening. The pronunciation patterns of Spanish are different than the ones you are used to in English. Even many of the Spanish words spelled identically to English ones are pronounced differently.
Fifth Step: Writing Spanish. The most complex skill, writing will develop last, as it does in your native language.
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Easiest Spanish is the easiest start of the simplest learning sequence for adult beginners:
1. Seeing words similar to English in Easiest Spanish: This focuses on single Spanish words you already know from English, enabling you to begin to read a little Spanish.
2. Saying the Spanish words similar to English in Easiest Spanish: Pronounce single Spanish words, learning the Spanish variation of words you already know how to pronounce in English.
3. The Ten Easy Spanish Lessons on this web site are the easiest way to begin learning Spanish, because you will find out how much you know about Spanish just because you know English.
4. Listening to Audio of Tourist Phrases for Spanish: Progress from familiar single words in steps one and two above toward listening to spoken Spanish. Then saying short Spanish phrases useful for travel.
5. Studying an Instructional Course in Spanish: Progress from phrases to complete sentences, and Spanish grammar required for sentences.
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The links below include general resources for learning more Spanish.
Also resources for special areas of need for Spanish such as:
Spanish Around the Home for supervising Spanish-speaking maids and yard workers,
and
Spanish for Construction Supervisors with Spanish-speaking workers.
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Links for Next Steps in Spanish:
Shortcut to Spanish: Change English Words Into Spanish
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SPANISH EASY READER & CD
SPANISH IN 10 MINUTES A DAY & CD
SEE IT AND SAY IT IN SPANISH
Features Spanish words similar to English.
MADRIGAL’S MAGIC KEYS TO SPANISH
Spanish words similar to English.
SPANISH IN PLAIN ENGLISH: The 5,001 Easiest Words You'll Ever Learn in Spanish, by Raymond Lowry
Features Spanish words similar to English.
Beginner Spanish & CD, Collins Language Revolution, by Tony Bazun
Features Spanish words similar to English: cognates, close cognates, and false cognates.
SPANISH FOR READING – A Self-Instructional Course, by Fabiola Franco and Karl Sandberg
A FIRST SPANISH READER, by Remy [Kindle]
A FIRST SPANISH READER, with q & a, by Roessler
EASY SPANISH READER (Classic Reprint), by Joel Hatheway
5-MINUTE SPANISH & CD, BY BERLITZ
5-MINUTE TRAVEL SPANISH & CD, BY BERLITZ
BERLITZ SPANISH PHRASE BOOK & DICTIONARY & CD
BERLITZ MEXICAN SPANISH PHRASE BOOK & DICTIONARY & CD
BERLITZ LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH PHRASE BOOK & DICTIONARY & CD
Spanish Vocabulary Cards, by Berlitz
Spanish Vocabulary Cards for Kindle
1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners’ Guides), by Seymour Resnick [no pronunciations]
Spanish Vocabulary Shower Curtain
Need to Know Spanish, All the Words You Need to Get By in Spanish, by Berlitz [no pronunciations]
Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use, by Dover
SPANISH FOR GRINGOS & 3 CD’s, by Paul Meisel
LEARN SPANISH THE FAST AND FUN WAY, by Gene Hammitt
Spanish English Visual Bilingual Dictionary, by DK Publishing
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SPANISH INSTRUCTION WEBSITES
Study Spanish Beginner to Advanced
StartSpanish.com claims to be the first online Spanish school of its kind offering live Spanish classes with certified teachers every hour, during the entire day.
SpanishLanguage.co.uk is an award-winning free online site for learning Spanish that is based in Great Britain and maintained by Fernando Perez Cos, who lives in Spain.
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SPANISH FOR SPECIALTIES
SPANISH AROUND THE HOUSE: The Quick Guide to Communicating with Your Spanish-Speaking Employees, by José M. Díaz
SPANISH FOR CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISORS
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SECTION FOR ADVANCED BEGINNERS
Better Reading Spanish, by Jean Yates
For advanced beginners and intermediates.
First Spanish Reader, A Beginner’s Dual Language Book, edited by Angel Flores
For advanced beginners and intermediates.
Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles, A Dual Language Book, edited by Angel Flores
For advanced beginners and intermediates.
Must-Know Spanish, Essential Words for a Successful Vocabulary, by Gilda Nissenberg
6000 Essential Spanish Words & CD, The Vocabulary You Need to be Fluent in Spanish, by Living Language
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