Spanish Without Fear

Spanish is not hard. It's just taught in the wrong order.Most Spanish books start with long lists of rules and verb tables. Spanish Without Fear starts with a person and a story, so every word and rule you learn has a reason.Meet Rafi, a young engineer from Dhaka. He arrives in Madrid for his master's degree and an internship knowing only three words of Spanish. Unit by unit, you learn exactly what he needs at that moment:greeting his landlady, Doña Carmenrenting a room in Lavapiésopening a bank account and buying a phoneordering churros con chocolatefinding a pharmacytaking the train to Sevillafinally, telling the story of his own childhoodBy the last page, you can do all of it too.A complete A1–A2 course in one book. It covers both beginner levels of the Common European Framework (CEFR), in small steps that build on each other.Inside you will find:3 "e;Start Here"e; lessons on words you already know (Spanish and English share thousands), the alphabet and the sounds of Spanish20 story-based units, each one a new chapter in Rafi's year in Madrid40 real-life conversations, with English beside every lineAn easy pronunciation guide for every new word, so you always know how to say it, with no phonetic symbols to learnGrammar in small, clear bites, with memory tricks and "e;Trap!"e; warnings about the mistakes English speakers make most oftenThe author's own Universal Rule for regular verbs, plus his tables for ser, estar and tener, stem-changing verbs, pronouns, prepositions and sentence patterns, taken from years of his Spanish class notes"e;In Latin America"e; notes in every unit, so you understand Spanish speakers from Mexico City to Buenos Aires as well as MadridA Sound Lab, a Culture Café, a Smile Break and a speaking drill in every unitExercises after every unit, two checkpoint tests and a complete answer keyA full reference section: verb tables, irregular verbs, pronouns, prepositions, numbers and grammar termsVocabulary by unit and a Spanish–English mini-dictionaryWho it's for:adults and teens learning Spanish on their ownteachers and language schools looking for a ready-made course bookstudents preparing for the DELE A1 or A2 examtravellers, students and professionals moving to Spain or Latin AmericaAbout the author. Md Makhjanul Islam is the founder of Princeton Prep and The Princeton Review Bangladesh, where he teaches and designs courses for students preparing to study around the world. He also wrote French Without Fear, the sister book to this course.Poco a poco se va lejos. Little by little, you go a long way. Start today.DELE is a diploma of the Instituto Cervantes, which is not affiliated with this book.