![]() | Berlitz Essential Spanish (Berlitz Handbooks) (Spanish Edition) by Inc. Berlitz International
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $0.41 I've used this one for the beginning. I liked it. It covers quite a bit of grammar (not just beginner's phrases...) and gives you the necessary background to move on. Perfect mix of grammar and exercises.
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![]() | Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach by Margarita Madrigal
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $7.14 This is a nice addition for my elementary/intermediate stage. It has a lot of exercises. I've been working with it for a while. The beginning is great, it shows you all the similarities between Spanish and English. Then it gets slower, sometimes almost too slow for me. It keeps adding exercises on the same old stuff. I'll try to finish it though.
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![]() | Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar by Gilda Nissenberg
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $5.98 This has a lot of exercises, which is great! The only problem I have with this book is that it uses a lot of words in the exercises that have not been introduced. Therefore, you can't start learning Spanish with this but it's really good for advanced beginners.
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![]() | 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners' Guides) by Seymour Resnick
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $0.25 Time to build more vocabulary! I like that every word is used in a sentence! Great book!
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![]() | Spanish Verbs And Essentials of Grammar : A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Spanish by Ina W. Ramboz
Buy used from: $0.01 Working through this will take some time. It presents a lot of grammar in a condensed way. If you're bad at memorizing things, this might not be your favorite book.
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![]() | First Spanish Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book (Beginners' Guides) (English and Spanish Edition)
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.60 At this point this should be a good review, and I hope it will be a nice change to focus less on grammar. I expect this to improve my reading skills, and consequently my fluency quite a bit.
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![]() | Complete Idiot's Guide to Intermediate Spanish
Buy used from: $3.16 Very readable, even though the first quarter of the book is basically English, I feel that this is gonna help me quite a bit. It was quite challenging after just a month of Spanish though, so I decided to take a little break from it and continue once I finish the "Complete Spanish Grammar" book.
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![]() | Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish by Joseph J. Keenan
Buy new: $8.58 / Used from: $8.29 Overwhelming reviews! I expected something different though... It explains some mistakes that beginners make, often embedded in funny stories. However, it doesn't 'teach' you a whole lot of Spanish. Nevertheless, it's entertaining and useful. Maybe it well get different towards the second half of the book.
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![]() | Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Vocabulary (Practice Makes Perfect Series) by Dorothy Richmond
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $6.93 More vocab please! This one has about 10,000 words, so this should keep me busy for quite some time, while I continue with the next books.
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![]() | Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced Spanish Grammar by Rogelio Vallecillos
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.90 I really like the format of the Practice Makes Perfect series. There are a lot of great Spanish textbooks but a month later you don't remember anything... This series is different. I hope this book will be as good as the other two from this series that are on this list.
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![]() | Conversational Spanish: A practical immersion course for intermediate Spanish conversation. (Audio CD + Listening guide & Grammar book) by Brianys Ferrer Visbal
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $35.99 Time to work on more fluency, conversational pace, and listening comprehension. I like that the speakers seem to be from Colombia.
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![]() | Streetwise Spanish (Book + 1CD): Speak and Understand Colloquial Spanish (StreetwiseSeries) by Mary McVey Gill
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.66 This positively reviewed book should help me understand more slang and speak more like natives.
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![]() | Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles (A Dual-Language Book) (English and Spanish Edition)
Buy used from: $3.35 Time to start reading Spanish books...
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![]() | Advanced Spanish Grammar: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides) by Marcial Prado
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.14 This one is both advanced and completely in Spanish. Hopefully the last grammar book I need. I will work through it but at the same time it's also meant to be a reference book for the future.
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![]() | Oxford Spanish Desk Dictionary
Buy used from: $5.13 Looks like a good dictionary with example sentences. It should serve me well for many years to come.
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