Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish
Learn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently in just 3 months, and adopt an awe-inspiring craft!

This educational language guide into the Spanish language has a newly updated look and an accompanying audio app that will get you speaking, reading and writing in Spanish easily and promptly. 

Inside the pages of this Spanish language book, you’ll find:

   • "Imitated pronunciation" sections that make unfamiliar Spanish sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Spanish 

Adopting a new language is made exciting and super easy with the latest edition of this classic self-study course providing all the resources that you need to converse, read and write in Spanish. If you’re a complete beginner or simply want to refresh your knowledge, Hugo: Spanish in Three Months will have you speaking Spanish fluently in as little as just 12 weeks.

This carefully structured grammar-based course contains 12 weekly chapters filled with informative lessons on the key grammatical structures and presents a range of useful vocabulary, along with easy-to-follow exercises to encourage your learning. You are taught approximately 4,000 words in a spoken, written and listening format, in addition to a helpful written "imitated pronunciation" guide. It replaces Spanish sounds with English syllables you’re already familiar with, so you can perfect your pronunciation at home or on the go.

Whether you’re learning a new language for work, a future vacation or as a hobby, the Hugo language course series is the perfect place to start. Learn languages like French, Dutch, German or Portuguese in only 12 weeks! Each course includes an audio app to help with understanding and pronunciation. Language learning has never been so easy!
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Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish
Learn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently in just 3 months, and adopt an awe-inspiring craft!

This educational language guide into the Spanish language has a newly updated look and an accompanying audio app that will get you speaking, reading and writing in Spanish easily and promptly. 

Inside the pages of this Spanish language book, you’ll find:

   • "Imitated pronunciation" sections that make unfamiliar Spanish sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Spanish 

Adopting a new language is made exciting and super easy with the latest edition of this classic self-study course providing all the resources that you need to converse, read and write in Spanish. If you’re a complete beginner or simply want to refresh your knowledge, Hugo: Spanish in Three Months will have you speaking Spanish fluently in as little as just 12 weeks.

This carefully structured grammar-based course contains 12 weekly chapters filled with informative lessons on the key grammatical structures and presents a range of useful vocabulary, along with easy-to-follow exercises to encourage your learning. You are taught approximately 4,000 words in a spoken, written and listening format, in addition to a helpful written "imitated pronunciation" guide. It replaces Spanish sounds with English syllables you’re already familiar with, so you can perfect your pronunciation at home or on the go.

Whether you’re learning a new language for work, a future vacation or as a hobby, the Hugo language course series is the perfect place to start. Learn languages like French, Dutch, German or Portuguese in only 12 weeks! Each course includes an audio app to help with understanding and pronunciation. Language learning has never been so easy!
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Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish

Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish

by DK
Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish

Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish

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Learn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently in just 3 months, and adopt an awe-inspiring craft!

This educational language guide into the Spanish language has a newly updated look and an accompanying audio app that will get you speaking, reading and writing in Spanish easily and promptly. 

Inside the pages of this Spanish language book, you’ll find:

   • "Imitated pronunciation" sections that make unfamiliar Spanish sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Spanish 

Adopting a new language is made exciting and super easy with the latest edition of this classic self-study course providing all the resources that you need to converse, read and write in Spanish. If you’re a complete beginner or simply want to refresh your knowledge, Hugo: Spanish in Three Months will have you speaking Spanish fluently in as little as just 12 weeks.

This carefully structured grammar-based course contains 12 weekly chapters filled with informative lessons on the key grammatical structures and presents a range of useful vocabulary, along with easy-to-follow exercises to encourage your learning. You are taught approximately 4,000 words in a spoken, written and listening format, in addition to a helpful written "imitated pronunciation" guide. It replaces Spanish sounds with English syllables you’re already familiar with, so you can perfect your pronunciation at home or on the go.

Whether you’re learning a new language for work, a future vacation or as a hobby, the Hugo language course series is the perfect place to start. Learn languages like French, Dutch, German or Portuguese in only 12 weeks! Each course includes an audio app to help with understanding and pronunciation. Language learning has never been so easy!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780744051643
Publisher: DK
Publication date: 04/05/2022
Series: DK Hugo in 3 Months Language Learning Courses
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

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Table of Contents

Pronunciation 7

Week 1 13

Articles: the, a, an, some

Gender & plural of nouns

Subject pronouns: I, you, he, etc.

Forms of address: Mr., Mrs., etc.

The verb tener (to have)

Forming the negative & questions

Idiomatic uses of tener

Exercises, drills & conversations

Week 2 24

Contraction of the article

Possession (e.g., "John's father")

Adjectives: describing things

The verbs ser & estar (to be)

Exercises & conversations

Week 3 33

Demonstratives: this, that, these, those

Regular verbs

The present participle (-ing form)

Question words: what?, who?, whose?, which?, etc.

Relative pronouns: who, which, that, etc.

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 4 46

Possessive adjectives: my, your, etc.

Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, etc.

Numbers

The time

Days, months, seasons, dates

Exercises & conversation

Review exercises

Week 5 62

The verb ir (to go)

The past participle (-ed form)

The present perfect ("I have done")

Hay ("there is," "there are")

Personal a

Direct and indirect object pronouns: me, him, to me, to him, etc.

Order of pronouns ("he gives it to me")

Redundant use of object pronouns

The imperative: polite commands

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 6 77

Some useful question words

Exclamations

Stem-changing verbs

Reflexive verbs (e.g., "I wash myself")

Reciprocal form ("each other")

Personal pronouns with prepositions

Irregular verbs in the present tense

Idiomatic uses of hacer

Impersonal verbs

The verbs gustar (to like) and querer (to want)

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 7 90

The imperfect tense ("was doing," "used to do")

The verb soler

The past perfect (e.g., "had done")

Some negative words: never, nothing, neither, etc.

Adverbs (e.g., "easily," frequently")

Comparison of adjectives, adverbs and nouns ("more … than," etc.)

Exercises, drills & conversation

Review exercises

Week 8 108

Shortened adjectives

Adjectives that precede the noun

Three irregular verbs (present tense)

Some irregular past participles

The future tense (e.g., "will do")

Irregular verbs in the future tense

The conditional (e.g., "would do")

Irregular verbs in the conditional

Uses of the future and conditional

Verbs with prepositions

Idiomatic uses of Ilevar and hacer

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 9 122

The preterite ("I spoke," "I ate")

Imperfect and preterite contrasted

The two verbs "to know"

Superlative of adjectives (e.g., "biggest")

Superlative of adverbs

The absolute superlative

Use of the neuter article lo

Uses of definite and indefinite articles

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 10 138

Different uses of por and para

The passive and its avoidance

Spelling changes in verbs

Verbs followed by an infinitive

Exercises, drills & conversation

Review exercises

Week 11 158

Uses of the verb deber

Saber and poder

Present and perfect subjunctive

Uses of the subjunctive

The familiar imperative

Idiomatic uses of seguir and valer

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 12 173

Imperfect and past perfect subjunctive

Uses of the imperfect and past perfect subjunctive

Sequence of tenses

Use of the subjunctive in "if" clauses and in main clauses

"May" and "might"

Verbs followed by prepositions

Al followed by the infinitive

Exercises, drills & conversation

Week 13 188

Some important verbs

Más and menos

Tan and tal

Pero and sino

Prepositions

Augmentatives and diminutives

Idiomatic uses of certain verbs

Exercises, drills & conversation

Review exercises

Reading practice 210

Un tour por Europa

Key to exercises 212

Mini-dictionary 235

Spanish-English

English-Spanish

Index 255

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