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Berlitz Rush Hour Spanish: A Complete Beginner's Course Set to Music (Berlitz Rush Hour)

Howard Beckerman

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Good for a Start or for Part of a Larger Strategy 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Turns out to be great. At first, I rolled my eyes at the little songs, feeling a little like I was listening to a Barney show. But it was in the privacy of my own car, so I just went with it. But then started noticing that the songs DO stick in your mind AND you remember what the spanish phrases/words mean! I am visual, though, so I needed to take a look at the booklet that has the "script" so I could understand what the spelling of the word was that they were saying. That helps a lot. First, I had rented a language DVD from Netflix. I found it grating and couldn't get far, but I did get through the pronunciation piece first. That way, if presented with a phrase like "Quiero aprender a communicarme en enspanol" that a native spanish speaking friend wrote for me, I can at least pronounce it correctly (or close enough to be understood). It is much more motivating to find that while your vocabulary is limited, the parts you DO know can be understood. Next, I start listening to these cds and check the booklet. Finally I went with the suggestion of another reviewer and bought a spanish instruction book (Madrigal's Magic Spanish). I am also considering buying 501 Spanish verbs conjugated. That was great when I used to study French years ago. I add some fun into it by nagging my spanish speaking friend at work to give me a sentence every once in a while. The native speakers at work are willing to discuss it with me now and then, which is nice. I guess people appreciate you TRYING to speak their language (especially since english speaking Americans have a rep for NOT trying). If you just want to dip your toe in to try it out and see if it sustains your interest OR if you just need survival communication for a trip, these tapes along with something that helps you with pronunciation by letter, are a good bet. So those are my recommendations.

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Rush Hour Spanish is a new musical language course that uses the power of catchy melodies and dynamic rhythms to introduce you to basic Spanish expressions and vocabulary for daily life. Follow the main character, Jon, through all the events of his day - and as he learns Spanish, so will you! If you have ever wanted to learn Spanish but thought you didn't have the time, Rush Hour is perfect for you.

Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way (Fast & Fun)

Gene Hammitt

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Barron's Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way with CD's 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book is ok as a basic teaching guide. Sentences written in Spanish are not always converted to English which makes it harder to learn. The CD's tend to jump around and don't always follow the book.

Hope you are traveling... 4 out of 5 stars.
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This was more focused on how to travel in Spain but the activities were pretty good. I used this book for a class.

The Fast & Fun Way to Learn Spanish by Gene Mammitt 5 out of 5 stars.
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Excellent. Easy to follow. Not confusing or boring. I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning Spanish.

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Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, this new third editions of Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way is suitable as language teaching book for adults as well as for older children. It instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking Spanish. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use.

Cien Años de Soledad

Gabriel García Márquez

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La mejor novela de nuestros tiempos! Es obligatorio leerla! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Este es un libro fascinante, lleno de realismo mágico, aventuras, drama y pasión. Un libro con el que se puede identificar cualquier latinoamericano por todo lo que tiene de cotidiano y de supersticioso. La historia tiene ciertas similitudes con la Biblia (Génesis, Exodo, Evangelios) , con las Mil y Una Noches y otras literaturas; lo que hacen que leerla le parezca a uno muy familiar aparte de que el lenguaje que utiliza García Márquez es muy sencillo y cotidiano. Nadie que la lea olvidará jamás a Ursula, o a Fernanda del Carpio, a Remedios la Bella o a cualquiera de los Aurelianos o José Arcadios. Es un libro adictivo para aquellos que dan sus primeros pasos en la buena literatura.

Después del Quijote, la mejor novela escrita en español, pero también la mejor novela contemporanea de nuestros tiempos. Es por eso, impresindible leer esta genial novela.

Un atractivo extra de esta edición son las notas al pie de página que da Jacques Joset, que permiten al lector aclarar muchas dudas acerca de donde tomá el autor nombres de personajes o de lugares. A mi en lo personal, me resulto mucho más interesante, ya que tenia ciertas dudas como de donde se inspiró García Márquez para hablar del Duque de Marlborough, de Rocamadour, o de Francisco El Hombre.

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This the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read. With this novel he won the 1982 Novel Prizze in Literature.

Read and Think Spanish (Book +1 Audio CD)

Ed's of Think Spanish

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Very good way to immerse yourself 5 out of 5 stars.
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To help read more fluently this book is good, because you can actually hear the pronunciations. You learn new vocabulary and also various cultures of spanish speaking people.

I would say a beginner may have some trouble, and would be refering to a dictionary alot. The book introduces you to new words and their meaning, but not every single word. When you are a beginner (at beginning stages of a beginner), your vocabulary is not big enough to keep up. But, I would say as your vocabulary increases, the better able you are to keep up, so it's not just for intermediate and advanced. The speaker talks at a regular speed and may seem too fast for a beginner at first, but like I said it is a great way to just throw yourself in.

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Learn Spanish as you read and hear about the vibrant Latino culture

Read & Think Spanish, the innovative, non-intimidating approach to learning Spanish, is now available with an audio CD. Compiled by the expert editors of Think Spanish! magazine, this audio package brings together more than 100 engaging, fully illustrated readings and articles about the life and cultures of Spanish-speaking countries. The 70-minute audio CD features many of the articles read aloud by native speakers, as well as questions for review and reinforcement of new vocabulary.

Rayuela/Hopscotch

Julio Cortazar

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"Of all our feelings the only one which doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life defending itself." 5 out of 5 stars.
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It has taken me years to sit down and finally make a serious commitment to read Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch/La Rayuela." I cannot think of a better companion to devote a few weeks to, maybe even longer - hey, whatever it takes! It depends on your reading speed and the time you take to truly savor the poetry of the author's language. So, be willing to make a small personal investment in this very special novel, and the reward you reap will be a worthy one. Julio Cortazar will take you to places you have never been before in literature, and may never experience again. I read "Hopscotch" over this past summer, after a thirty year delay. I can be very stubborn about putting off what is good for me!! The author's imagination is boundless, his prose rich and luminous, his wit and sophistication rare, the dialogue brilliant, the plot...I won't attempt to describe that with a few adjectives. Wander through the extraordinary labyrinthine plot on you own - the way is yours to discover. I promise, you won't get lost!

I was introduced to "La Rayuela" about thirty years ago, when a close friend, with similar reading tastes, gave me the book. Enthused after just reading the novel, he told me that I reminded him of one of the characters, La Maga. (What a compliment...I think!). I was living in Latin America at the time. With personal interests at stake and much curiosity, I bought a copy in Spanish, which I read with some fluency back then. After experimenting with which way to approach the novel, and trying both ways, I gave up...and just read the parts about La Maga. I had little patience at that point in my life, and needed to acquire some, and to read slower, with more of a sense of play and participation. Cortazar wants his readers to participate - to make reading his book an interactive experience, not a passive one. I was and still feel touched when I remember my friend's comments regarding La Maga. She is a magnificent character and Cortazer's prose, his language, (Spanish), is exquisite. So, about a year later, I thought I'd give it another try, in English, perhaps with better results. None! I just wasn't ready, I guess. That happens to me with fiction occasionally. I have to be open to the experience. Yet, after all these years, I still thought of Horacio Oliveira and La Maga from time to time. And why not? They are truly unforgettable. As I wrote above, I did make time, at last. For an adventure of a lifetime, I recommend you do the same.

When Julio Cortazar published "La Rayuela" in 1966, he turned the conventional novel upside-down and the literary world on its ear with this experiment in writing fiction. He soon became an important influence on writers everywhere. "Hopscotch" is considered to be one of the best novels written in Spanish. The work is interactive, where readers are invited to rearrange its text and read sections in different sequences. Read in a linear fashion, "Hopscotch" contains 700 pages, 155 chapters in three sections: "From the Other Side," and "From This Side" - the first two sections are sustained by relatively chronological narratives and so contrast greatly with the third section, "From Diverse Sides," (subtitled "Expendable Chapters"), which includes philosophical extrapolation, character study, allusions and quotations, and an entirely different version of the "ending."

The book has no table of contents, but rather a "Table of Instructions." There, we learn that two approved readings are possible: from Chapter 1 through 56 "in a normal fashion", or from Chapter 73 to Chapter 1 to... well, wherever the chapters lead you. The instructions are all in your book and are extremely clear. At the end of each chapter there is a numeric indicator to lead the reader to the next chapter. One never knows where one will be lead. Due to its meandering nature, "Hopscotch" has been called a "Proto-hypertext" novel. Cortázar probably had this work in mind when he stated, "If I had the technical means to print my own books, I think I would keep on producing collage-books."

Horacio Oliveira, our protagonist and sometimes narrator, is an Argentinean expatriate, an intellectual and professed writer in 1950's bohemian Paris. He and his close friends, members of "the Club," do lots of partying, drinking, and intellectualizing, discussing art, literature, music and solving the world's problems. Oliveira lives with and loves La Maga, an exotic young woman, somewhat whimsical, at times almost ephemeral, who leaves behind her, like the scent of a light perfume, a feeling of poignancy and inevitable loss. La Maga refuses to plan her encounters with Oliveira in advance, preferring instead to run into each other by chance. Then she and Oliveira celebrate the series of circumstances that reunite them. Eventually, he loses La Maga, who loses her child. With her absence, Oliveira realizes how empty and meaningless his life is and he returns to his native Buenos Aires. There he finds work first as a salesman, then a keeper of a circus cat, and an attendant in an insane asylum.

As Oliveira wends his way through France, Uruguay and Argentina looking for his lost love, "Hopscotch's" narrative takes on an emotionally intense stream of consciousness style, rich in metaphor. Back In Argentina, Oliveira shares his life with his bizarre double, Traveler, and Traveler's wife, Talita, whom Oliveira attempts to remake into a facsimile of La Maga.

The game of hopscotch is only developed as a conceit late in the narrative. It is first used to describe Oliveira's confused love for La Maga as "that crazy hopscotch." The theme develops as a metaphor for reaching Heaven from Earth. "When practically no one has learned how to make the pebble climb into Heaven, childhood is over all of a sudden and you're into novels, into the anguish of the senseless divine trajectory, into the speculation about another Heaven that you have to learn to reach too." The variations on the children's game are described as "spiral hopscotch, rectangular hopscotch, fantasy hopscotch, not played very often." The allusions continue and include some beautiful passages.

"Hopscotch" is much more than a novel. Ultimately, it is best left for each reader to define what it is for himself/herself. Pablo Neruda in a famous quote said, "People who do not read Cortazar are doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease." I don't know whether I would go so far. Remember, I put off the experience for many years. But this is one novel that should be read during one's lifetime. It is brilliant and it is fun!
JANA

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Por primera vez se edita -Rayuela- como un clasico de la novela contemporanea. Todo el conjunto de materiales que aporta esta edicion (introduccion, abundantes notas, plano, fotografias) serviran al lector para comprender mejor y disfrutar mas con esta gran novela. Al aclararse tantas alusiones y tecnicas narrativas, resplandece con mas claridad el sentido profundo del relato: la busqueda constante, el humor, el juego, la nostalgia de una verdadera vida, el paso sonado -de la tierra al cielo-…

Spanish Grammar for Independent Learners

Arie Vicente, Avigail Azoulay

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Innovative Approach designed for the self-learner 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 18 people found this review helpful.

There are a few things that you need to learn Spanish on your own.
Besides a Spanish verb conjugation book (501 Spanish Verbs - highly recommended), a Spanish/English dictionary, Spanish audio course (Learning Spanish Like Crazy - highly recommended), you'll need Spanish Grammar for Independent Learners. Alternatively, you can use the Practice Makes Perfect book series to learn the Spanish grammar. But if you are learning on your own you may like this one better. That's because this book was specifically made for the person that is learning Spanish on his own.

Although I sometimes have the opportunity to practice with native speakers, for the most part, I am learning on my own. This book is giving me plenty of value, especially by teaching me different self-correcting techniques that I can use in place of an instructor. Avigail Azoulay and Arie Vicente's self-correction method has also helped me build my confidence in speaking Spanish without the aid of a Spanish teacher.

If you are an independent learner, get this book, get 501 Spanish Verbs, and get Learning Spanish Like Crazy (Nivel Uno and Nivel Dos), and you'll learn plenty of Spanish without attending classes or having an istructor. If you are not an independent learner and need someone to keep you motivated to study, then you shouldn't even be considering this book.

Editorial Review:

A complete reference grammar book of Spanish. Explanations are provided in English, examples translated, for easy understanding. The grammar is completely cross-referenced for quick access to further information if needed. Summary charts give an overview of each topic and enable readers to check information at a glance. Complete conjugation tables give immediate access to verb forms. The appendix contains a list of more that one thousand verbs with their complement structure. Another special feature of the book is the self-correction strategies which help users diagnose and correct their own errors, as they learn the language and use it to communicate their thoughts orally and in writing.

Spanish Verbs (Barron's Verb Series)

Christopher Kendris Ph.D.

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Helpful for beginners 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is a quck reference card intended as a companion to the Barron's book -- 501 Verbs. It is not sufficient on its own. However it is a very dense compilation of essentials, much more easily accessed than having to dig through the 501 or similar grammar books when one is first learning the ropes and framework of Spanish.

I used this card very, very frequently for my first month of independent spanish study. I greatly appreciated having a compact source of key things I needed to read over and over while trying to form a landscape view of this language. I am still pulling it out often to review key points. I am now at the start of month #3.

On one side of the card (3 pages worth when unfolded), it describes the purpose of each of the 7 simple tenses, the 7 compound tenses, the imperativo, the progressive forms, participles (Present and Past) as well as active versus passive voices. Key examples are given. On the other side is a very detailed conjugation plus English translation of a model verb (comer). Then the same table used in 501 is given for several strategically chosen regular and irregular verbs: dar, decir, estar, haber, hablar, hacer, ir and lavar.

The overall presentation of the card utilizes good graphics and color coded variations to assist in quickly finding the highlights. Without this feature, the very dense amount of information would be overwhelming -- but given the authors/publishers attention to detail -- I find it to be very user friendly.

The card is laminated and should be durable if kept reasonably protected in a notebook. Using it during my novice stage of exploring Spanish clearly saved a lot of wear and tear on my copy of 501 Verbs -- a resource needed indefinitely.

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Approximately 300 most frequently used Spanish verbs are presented, one verb per page, arranged alphabetically, fully conjugated, and identified by the English infinitive form. Books in this series are smaller and shorter versions of Barron's 501 Verbs series. They make handy quick-reference sources for language students, teachers, and translators.

Su Mejor Vida Ahora: Siete Etapas Vias Camimos para Vivir al Maximo Potencial

Joel Osteen

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GREAT POINT OF VIEW 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I read this book and the way Joel Osteen sees things will allow us to enjoy God's love better and stop victimizing ourselves.
As a catholic, I like to see how other faiths look at life and Osteen has maden a very interesting contribution to all of our faiths with this book.

Super! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Si tienes tiempo para leer un libro de esperanza, este es tu libro, no te detengas que Dios tiene mucho para ti, aquie el pasto Olsteen te guia y te ensena paso a paso como Dios quiere trabajar en tu vida.

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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Uplifting for depressed patients: Su Mejor Vida Ahora 5 out of 5 stars.
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I usually give Su Mejor Vida Ahora (or its English version Your Best Life Now) with friendship, catharsis and adrenalin blocker to depressed patients others give only Prozac type medicine. It amplifies Osteen's universal encouragement.
Howard Long MD MPH

su mejor vida ahora, de joel osteen 5 out of 5 stars.
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Su Mejor Vida Ahora/Your Best Life Now: Siete Pasos Para Vivir A Su Maximo Potencial

Uno de los mejores libros que he leido!
Cuando me lo regalaron y me dijeron que ya con ese iban mas de 20 que regalaban, yo que leo mucho, pense, " ni que estuviera tan bueno", estos pobres no saben lo que un buen libro es....

Bueno tengo que decir que ya van mas de 20 que compro para regalar.

Es un libro que todos deberian leer. te da fe en ti mismo, fe en dios, luz , seguridad, confianza, te hace crecer y creer.

Necesitamos creer que podemos lograr lo que queramos, y Joel Osteen sabe de manera sencilla y amena abrir tu mente, tu corazon, tu alma, todo tu ser, a ese poder infinito, del cual todos tenemos una chispa, la luz de cristo y el poder dios, con el cual podemos lograr "mover montanas" y superar todo!, NO SE LO PIERDAN.

Guille Velasco ( Mexico)

Pedid Que Ya Se Os Ha Dado: (Ask and It Is Given)

Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks

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La vida es un juego... aqui estan las reglas!! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Uno se ha preguntado toda su vida como lograr aquello que quiere en la vida. Cuales son las reglas de este maravilloso juego? Pues bien, he leido demasiado y casi habia decidido dejar de leer para buscar solo la sabiduria interior a traves de la meditacion, pero este libro me hizo cambiar de idea. Luego de leer los comentarios en Amazon.com y parte de algunos capitulos, decidi comprarlo y no me ha decepcionado. Lei hace meses "El secreto", esto va mucho mas alla que "El Secreto" profundiza claramente lo que alli solo se muestra superficialmente.
Tambien me sorprende su coherencia, no parece haber puntos flojos en su filosofia, los habra seguramente para aquellos acostumbrados a criticar algo antes de comprenderlo porque creen que ser "critico", es sinonimo de ser "inteligente" y pasara mucho tiempo hasta que descubran que estan equivocados, este libro no es para ellos, al menos no aun.

He leido a Wayne W. Dyer, Wallace D. Wattles, Napoleon Hill, Deepak Chopra, escritos sobre Filosofia "No-dualista", Eckhart Tolle, Un Curso de Milagros, Don Miguel Ruiz, Paramahansa Yogananda, y muchos otros, siempre parecia faltarle algo al rompecabezas, pero no a "Pedid que se os ha dado" que parece ser la sintesis de todo lo demas, la sintesis que completa las ideas de otros y va aun mas alla, mostrando facetas que quiza autores de carne y hueso no pueden ver claramente. Si, se supone que este libro esta "dictado" a Esther Hicks por una entidad no fisica autodenominada Abraham, no se si es cierto, solo se que la forma en que Abraham-Hicks dilucida las dudas que surgen durante la lectura parece casi magica, como entremetiendose en lugares de la mente de tal sutileza que se dificulta el acceso para aquellos aun vestidos de carne y hueso.
Suena increible? Lealo y despues me cuenta. Puedo afirmar que si la vida es un juego, aqui estan las reglas que hemos estado buscando durante tanto tiempo. Sonria! Dios lo bendice!

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    Ask and It Is Given presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham. It will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you’re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.          

      As you read, you’ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality—and you’ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life.

      It’s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good—and this book will show you how to make it so in every way!

Del Amor Y Otros Demonios / of Love And Other Demons

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Refrito... 2 out of 5 stars.
13 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Tras tres o cuatro excelentes libros (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Cien años de soledad, El otoño del patriarca, El amor en los tiempos del cólera), García Márquez se ha dedicado a verle la cara a sus lectores, que seguimos esperando un poco más de sus libros más recientes. Cuando no compra sus historias - por ejemplo Relato de un náufrago, Noticia de un secuestro - o escribe cuentos patéticamente malos (no se hagan, ¿a quién le gustan los Doce cuentos peregrinos?), simplemente refritea sus novelas, es decir, expone temas ya tomados en cuentos publicados anteriormente y los entrelaza para formar una historia más extensa. Es éste el caso de Del amor y otros demonios. Si quieres leer el libro únicamante por el estilo y el realismo mágico, adelante. Siempre he dicho que GGM es un poeta y su estilo es bellísimo, y ni se diga, junto a Kafka y Rulfo es de los grandes del realismo mágico. Pero desde el punto de vista de la trama...no lo recomendaría. Lee mejor los cuatro libros que mencioné arriba, y luego ya verás que a comparación, Del amor y otros demonios es una narración más bien sosa.

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Published in Spanish, a new short novel, set against the lush tropical backdrop of colonial eighteenth-century Colombia, narrates the story of two doomed lovers.