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

Product Information

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. If it has got a downside it would be the layout, which is now dated (it was written in the early 1950's with Andy Warhol as the illustrator).

Spanish is a phonetic language, so once you understand how the different letters are pronounced, it’s effortless to read a word the correct way. Now, it might seem a little ambitious to believe that you can learn proper pronunciation from a book but the author does a great job of laying out how to pronounce the language. With original black and white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon with to build their language skills. Très bon livre pour apprendre l'espagnol, sans avoir à mémoriser une centaine de règles grammaticales, comme c'est souvent le cas avec les livres d'apprentissage de langues.

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. Listening to native speakers, sounding out words and practicing your pronunciation, studying vocabulary. Now the book says it’s “A Creative And Proven Approach,” and that’s because it truly is; the author was one of the best language teachers of her time. The author, Margarita Madrigal, knew this and decided to use this as an important element to help get you to speak Spanish quickly. Si vous voulez non seulement apprendre, mais aussi comprendre l'espagnol, ce livre est fait pour vous !

The book also does an excellent job of helping you understand how Spanish works when it comes to verb conjugation. She focuses on cognates that will help you learn hundreds if not thousands of words in literally minutes. As with all language learning resources, the effort exerted by the learner is the actual key to learning a foreign language to whatever level the learner feels that they want to achieve, but Madrigals Magic Keys To Spanish is an excellent starting point and gives a great deal of potential for quickly usable language from which the learner can then spring and delve into other resources and learning opportunities. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigal's unique method of teaching a foreign language. If you are a beginner at Spanish, let me tell you right now you already know hundreds of words in Spanish. One reviewer has said that the book is too long but I would temper that view with the knowledge that the increase in volume is actually due to these many examples of usage and word/phrase combination drills. Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and graphic artist before he became well-known as a Pop artist and celebrity. 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.

But, by using the right tools and learning a few tips and tricks, you’ll be much better positioned to succeed. It then moves on to teach you grammar in a very novel way, none of the boring conjungations that had to be learnt by rote when doing languages at school. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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. Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls.

DOUBLE ONLY L, R All other letters, such as “ss, pp, mm, nn, tt, ff” (except “1,” “r”), which are doubled in English, become single letters in Spanish. I wish the Magic Key to French and German were still in print as I have made substanital progress with my Spanish using this book, the method obviously works. 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. 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. When you understand that verbs change according to who you’re talking about, everything begins to fall into place.

This is on the grounds that a lot of our conversations in daily life are about the past: what we did at the weekend, last week, last night or this morning, for example. 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. Some reviewers have pointed to the South American bias of this book as being a problem for anyone wishing to speak Spanish in mainland Spain but I have found no such issues in the dozen or so times that I have visited Spain.And let's not forget that the vast majority of people will try hard to understand a foreigner that tries to use their language - and never underestimate the power of always using "please" and "thankyou" and, indeed, pointing and saying the appropriate numbers with a hopeful smile :-D … We even have significant differences British English: I was brought up in southern England and have worked in Sheffield recently and whilst I would “make a brew”, they will “mash”, I will feel “cold” but they will be “nesh”, something might be “dirty” but to them it will be “mardy” … Differences are easily overcome with very little effort and, really, should just add to our enjoyment of the vibrant nature of language. The odd person has tried to correct my "gracias" to "grathias" but, after a bit of interaction, they have realised that I am not being lazy or uneducated but, rather, speaking the South American flavour - and they can understand it perfectly well. 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.