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

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At this moment you know several thousand Spanish words even if you have never seen or heard a Spanish word before. 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. 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.

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.

Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. 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. 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.

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. Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effeciveness of Margarita Madrigals unique method of teaching a foreign language.The motto of this book, if such there be, is "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche" (Chaucer). From the time man first began to learn foreign tongues down to the present time, language methods have relied on memory and not on the pupil's powers of creation. 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).