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

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Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you-. It helped me get a solid foundation for Spanish early on, so I highly recommended this book if you’re new to Spanish. The book also does an excellent job of helping you understand how Spanish works when it comes to verb conjugation. She later was employed as a tutor for the FBI, The Rockefeller Institute, Time Life International, and other important political and military figures of her time.

This method gives you tools to learn a ton of new vocabulary right from the get-go with super easy to grasp techniques.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. 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.

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. 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. The concepts in the book are so easy to digest, even if you’re just getting started because the author has put a ton of thought into how to get beginners to grasp the basics in a short amount of time. 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. He was equally well known in the late sixties and early seventies as resident host at his studio, The Factory, where one could listen to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick.Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. So, as you learn the new vocabulary, you’re also learning tons of new sentences that you can use just by switching out a word or two here and there in Spanish. Once you understand how to pronounce the letters in the alphabet, you’ll know how to say the words that you’re reading in Spanish. Conjugations are introduced slowly, so the learner is not faced with table after table of conjugations in all forms.