Living Spanish Book & Audio Online 5th Edition

A Grammar Based Course

R P Littlewood, Rosa Maria Martin

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Hodder & Stoughton
12 June 2012

This new 5th edition includes an up-to-date culture and vocabulary guide, allowing you to broaden your knowledge of contemporary language and customs.

Do you want to learn Spanish or brush up what you know already? Are you looking for a course with a traditional approach to language learning, based on solid grammatical foundations, translation skills and practical vocabulary? If so, this is the course for you.

The material covers a variety of everyday topics in a simple, concise manner. There are plenty of examples and explanations to illustrate how the language works and to build confidence. Each unit, designed to build systematically on what you have already learned, contains:

- clear grammar explanations

- vocabulary lists

- reading material consisting of a story, dialogue or letter

- questions for speaking practice

- exercises

- 32pp test-yourself section giving you extra practice and allowing you to monitor your progress as you go through the course, helping you keep on top of tricky grammar points and regularly testing the vocabulary you're learning.

There are also revision units to help you practise what you are learning. At the back of the book, an exercise key enables you to check your answers while grammar and vocabulary sections provide a useful reference.

The accompanying online audio will help you with listening and speaking. In addition to a full pronunciation section, it contains reading passages and dialogues from the course book, followed by comprehension questions in Spanish, together with model answers.

Download our free app, Teach Yourself Library, from the App Store or Google Play to access the free audio.

By: R P Littlewood, Rosa Maria Martin
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Unabridged 5th revised ed
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781444153941
ISBN 10: 1444153943
Publication Date: 12 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lesson 1: El campesino Lesson 2: La escuela del pueblo Lesson 3: La casa de Manuel Lesson 4: Las moscas Lesson 5: Carta desde Sevilla : Revision 1 Lesson 6: El estanco Lesson 7: Los burros Lesson 8: Los planes Lesson 9: La fiesta de cumpleanos Lesson 10: El hombre de negocios : Revision 2 Lesson 11: La senora Carmencita Lesson 12: America latina Lesson 13: El marinero Lesson 14: La llegada del transatlantico Lesson 15: Comunicaciones : Revision 3 Lesson 16: Un viaje accidentado Lesson 17: Espana vista por los extranjeros Lesson 18: Contraste Lesson 19: Visita a una fabrica Lesson 20: El indiano : Revision 4 Lesson 21: Las comunidades autonomas de Espana (1) Lesson 22: Las comunidades autonomas de Espana (2) Lesson 23: Don Quixote Lesson 24: La economia espanola Lesson 25: En la frontera : Revision 5 : Self-assessment tests : Key to the Exercises : Vocabularies : Audio content

Rosa Maria Martin, who has revised R. P. Littlewood's original course, is Director of the Language Learning Unit at Queen Mary and Westfield College and an experienced language teacher and adviser. She is a best-selling authorand co-author of several language-teaching series, including the four-part schools Spanish course Aventura Nueva.

Reviews for Living Spanish Book & Audio Online 5th Edition: A Grammar Based Course

'A joy to study ... I love the rigour of the grammatical approach' amazon.co.uk user review 'it is so well laid out, so succinct, so intelligently crafted!' amazon.co.uk user review 'this will get you going on a solid foundation of understanding language from the ground up' amazon.co.uk user review