 | Alexander y el día terrible, horrible, espantoso, horroroso by Judith Viorst
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.49 Children's books are one of the best ways to learn Spanish, because they teach you the most common and basic vocabulary.
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 | Easy Spanish Reader: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students by Glencoe McGraw-Hill
Buy new: $23.72 / Used from: $0.49 This reader is great for building basic vocabulary and learning basic sentence structures. The stories aren't as interesting as the children's books, but they come with comprehension questions.
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 | HarperCollins Spanish Unabridged Dictionary
Buy new: $40.15 / Used from: $27.58 I have about 10 different Spanish dictionaries, and this is the best of all of them.
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 | NTC's Dictionary of Latin American Spanish by Rafael A. Olivares
Buy used from: $1.83 This dictionary will help you find the definitions of regional vocabulary, which you'll run into farely often if you speak to Mexican-Americans.
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 | Spanish I - 1st Ed. Rev. (Pimsleur Language Program) by Pimsleur
Buy used from: $209.00 Great for pronunciation practice, but focuses too much on formal Spanish and Spanish as spoken in Spain.
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 | Learn To Speak Spanish 8.1
Buy used from: $6.75 I used an older version of this program and it really helped me, but I don't know if this version has any games. You definitely want the games.
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 | Suavemente by Elvis Crespo
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.20 This is a very popular merengue CD. Listening to music and trying to pick out words you know will help with comprehension. You can get the lyrics online if you need them..
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 | Historia Musical by Los Angeles Azules
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.43 This is a very popular Mexican band. It's a completely different kind of music from the first CD.
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 | 501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-to-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by Christopher Kendris
Buy used from: $0.48 This reference book is even more important than a dictionary. It gives you definitions and complete conjugations for the 501 most commonly used Spanish verbs.
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 | Test Yourself: Spanish Grammar by Julio Lopez-Arias
Buy used from: $0.91 This is a survey of Spanish grammer with plenty of tests and practice problems.
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 | Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Pronouns And Prepositions by Dorothy Richmond
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $5.00 This book is like the last one, only it focuses on pronouns and prepositions.
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