Spanish for Beginners, Book 1

Author: Liu Jian, Liu Yuanqi, Xu Lei (editors)
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Publishing Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This textbook consists of two volumes, with each volume containing thirty lessons. Each lesson is composed of two texts on the same theme, vocabulary, grammar, and exercises. In the vocabulary lists, key vocabulary is accompanied by example sentences. The exercises also supplement common sentence patterns or background knowledge related to the lesson themes in various ways, enabling self-learners to grasp basic and commonly used sentence patterns in a short time and achieve a level of communication in the language. With the continuous strengthening of economic, political, and cultural ties between China and Spain, Latin America, the demand for Spanish language talents in society has been rapidly increasing. More and more people hope to master this language through self-study. "Spanish for Quick Proficiency" was specifically written for this group of self-learners and is also suitable for university and college students who use Spanish as their second or third foreign language. Targeting this group of learners who have relatively limited study time and whose learning goals are primarily for work or life rather than theoretical research, the grammar explanations in this textbook are relatively concise and the pace is quick. The lesson themes are mostly daily-life scenarios, such as renting an apartment, seeing a doctor, making phone calls, etc.
This textbook consists of two volumes, with each volume containing thirty lessons. Each lesson is composed of two texts on the same theme, vocabulary, grammar, and exercises. In the vocabulary lists, key vocabulary is accompanied by example sentences. The exercises also supplement common sentence patterns or background knowledge related to the lesson themes in various ways, enabling self-learners to grasp basic and commonly used sentence patterns in a short time and achieve a level of communication in the language.
During the writing process of this book, the three authors, after jointly determining the principles of content and format, respectively wrote ten lessons each. Liu Yuanqi wrote lessons to the tenth lesson, Xu Lei wrote lessonsto the twentieth lesson, and Liu Jian wrote lessonsto the thirtieth lesson. The authors are listed in no particular order. During the writing process, we received help from many colleagues in the Spanish language field. Here, we sincerely express our gratitude to them. At the same time, we sincerely invite readers to offer constructive feedback to help us improve this textbook.