Cisneros Isabel. Spanish in 3 months: Your Essential Guide To Understanding And Speaking Spanish (With Free Audio App)

3rd edition. — London: Dorling Kindersley, 2022. — 258 p. — ISBN 978-0-2415-3742-8.This edition of Hugo Spanish in 3 Months was written by Isabel Cisneros, who has considerable experience in teaching her native tongue to secondary school students, adult beginners, and more advanced learners. The course is designed for people learning at home who want to acquire a good working knowledge of Spanish in a short time. The grammar is presented concisely and clearly, maintaining the Hugo principle of teaching only what is really essential, and yet providing a complete introduction to written and conversational Spanish. We strongly encourage you to download the free DK Hugo In 3 Months app (see p.4) and to listen to the accompanying audio – this will enable you to learn the distinctive sounds of the Spanish language. Ideally, you should spend about an hour a day on the course, although there is no hard and fast rule on this. Do as much as you feel capable of doing; it is much better to learn a little at a time, and to learn that thoroughly. Before beginning a new section, always spend ten minutes revising what you learned the day before. Then read each new sec tion care ful ly, ensuring that you have fully un der stood the grammar, before listening to the audio to learn the pronunciation of sample sentences and new vocabulary. Finally, complete the exercises that accompany each section. Repeat them until the answers come easily. Repetition is vital to language learning. The more often you listen to a conversation or repeat an oral exercise, the faster your listening skills and fluency in speaking the language will improve.
After you’ve completed the all the exercises in a week, move on to the drills at the end, and read both the stimulus and response out loud. Work through them line by line and use them as a test to see if you’re ready to move on to the next chapter. In addition to the valuable pronunciation practice and general fluency provided by these drills, they can also be treated as written exercises – the answers are at the back of the book.
When you’ve completed the course, you should have a very good understanding of the language – more than sufficient for gen er al holiday or business purposes, and enough to support you in language validation tests if that is your aim. Re mem ber that it is important to continue ex pand ing your vo cab u lary by reading in Spanish or watching Spanish films – or, best of all, visiting Spain!