What book would you recommend for learning Spanish as a third language?
Hello. I speak English as my native language, and Swedish as my second. I'm a junior in high school, and want to learn the Spanish language so that when I graduate nursing school, landing a job will be easier. I lalready have the basics down, because I took it in 7th & 8th grade. I'm looking for a detailed book that doesn't just chunk vocabulary words at you and expect you to string together proper sentences with that alone. I have tried Rosetta Stone and I don't think it really teaches in a guided scenario well enough. I'll use it for pronunciation and listening skills, but that's all. I guess I should mention I'd prefer Latin American (Mexican) Spanish over European Spanish (Spain). Thanks.
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Try busuu.com.
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I advice you this old FSI free course download: http://storage.freelanguagecourses.com/spanish_programmatic_complete.zip (316MB). http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Spanish (This free website will provide with FSI courses with individual pdf, and mp3s).
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There's no experience as actually living in the country itself. You will learn Spanish much quicker and have fun while doing it. If this opportunity is open to you, check out summer language schools in various countries. The Spanish-speaking country I loved the most is Costa Rica. The people are the nicest in the world, the country is absolutely beautiful and many younger people do speak English. There's a mentality in the country that makes the population quite unique. What do you expect from a nation without a military and a fourth of the country is protected in park reserves? Check out the website for the University of Costa Rica. You could also become an exchange student. I'm not sure where you are from, although you do speak Swedish, I'm assuming that you're from the USA or Canada since you are more interested in LA(Mexican) Spanish. Mexico is also a wonderful country, I've been there several times and enjoyed myself. Opportunities for Spanish language school is also available in Mexico, I personally loved Guadalajara. As far as a book is concerned, I've never encountered one that could match the personal experience-there is a special Spanish that you will never learn in a book. Buena suerte guero y Ojala que le vaya bien en sus estudios del idioma espanol.
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Hey I learnt spanish from the online course on this website http://alturl.com/bj685 And i must say i am pretty good in spanish now and i Know every thing about it y dont u check this out its a awesome ebook.
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Check out some of these books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dimprove%2520swimming%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=clogui-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 I strongly suggest Rosetta Stone Levels 1-5: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dimprove%2520swimming%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=clogui-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
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