Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach

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Learn the basics of the Spanish language with this easy-to-use guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol-from one of America's most prominent language teachers.

In this book I'm going to show you how easy it is to learn Spanish by showing you how much you already know. With original black and white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon with to build their language skills. Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and graphic artist before he became well-known as a Pop artist and celebrity. The method has proved successful with more than a quarter of a million people in the span of a few years. I wanted to get it but I hesitated because of my experience with the other e-reader, but I still kept the sample.When you finish this course you will be able to go to a Spanish-speaking country and talk to the people and understand them.

If you have something to share or a question about the Spanish language, post and we'll help the best we can! Très bon livre pour apprendre l'espagnol, sans avoir à mémoriser une centaine de règles grammaticales, comme c'est souvent le cas avec les livres d'apprentissage de langues. Explanations are good, though the author does not point out differences in pronunciation between European and American Spanish like the author Eric Vogt does. Learn the basics of the Spanish language with this easy-to-use guide by one of America's most prominent language teachers. In fact, the learner is introduced to the singular forms of only the first person and third person for a good portion of the book.I’m the kind of learner that needs to know the why behind the action/words and this book is amazing when it comes to that. There is a method provided in this book that helps the learner to understand WHY it is spoken in this way, for instance, the work Tome, meaning to take but in Spanish it means to eat or drink something so instead of saying “I ate a sandwich” one would say “I took the sandwich” give or take (forgive me if that’s not 100% I’m still learning”I’m the kind of learner that needs to know the why behind the action/words and this book is amazing when it comes to that. When you study this method you will find that you will not only have the ability to recognize words, but that it will actually be within your power to convert English words into Spanish words. The very first lesson will prove to you that you can create at least one hundred times more material than you could possibly memorize in the same given time.

Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. After all, we didn't learn English by learning grammar first, we learnt it by identifying patterns and then, when we were at school, we learnt grammatical terms and nuances. Furthermore, the process of creation is exciting, whereas mechanical memorizing is tremendously boring. Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigals unique method of teaching a foreign language. It starts with a very positive introduction and goes on to explain that an English speaker already knows hundreds if not thousands of words in Spanish and it gives you the rules that unlock this 'magic key' to Spanish.I am no language savant (a fact, sadly, not false modesty), but I am a linguistic enthusiast and, having sought out, and used, beginner level materials for Russian, Japanese, Italian, Greek and Amharic and having taken French (A level) and German (O level) at school/college (a long, long time ago :-D), I can say that this book is better at getting the learner up and running with usable language than any other book or online resource that I have found to date, by a country mile. Some went more slowly than others, but in the end every student learned more Spanish for every hour that he spent with the book than he had thought possible in his fondest dreams. But it is really exciting to discover that with a few hints you yourself can form these words and that you can start out on your venture of learning Spanish with a large, ready-made vocabulary.

The odd person has tried to correct my "gracias" to "grathias" but, after a bit of interaction, they have realised that I am not being lazy or uneducated but, rather, speaking the South American flavour - and they can understand it perfectly well. The motto of this book, if such there be, is "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" (Chaucer). Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. DOUBLE ONLY L, R All other letters, such as “ss, pp, mm, nn, tt, ff” (except “1,” “r”), which are doubled in English, become single letters in Spanish. This is on the grounds that a lot of our conversations in daily life are about the past: what we did at the weekend, last week, last night or this morning, for example.

I wasn’t going to give up because I had hopes that if I mentioned the problem in a review, the author would adjust the formatting and I could purchase it for my iOS devices.