Gringo Guide to Speaking Spanish - Instantly Know What To Say!

Filed Under (Spanish) by Dr Jay Polmar on 17-01-2010

My story: I had a challenge. I needed to move to Mexico for my health and retire, and I spoke English, a few words of French from high school, about 12 words of Spanish which could wind me up in fight or jail, yeah - mostly cuss words.

Luckily, I met Reuben Varela, a well known Restauranteur at the Balneario Hot Springs in San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico and Gerardo Tolentino, an English teacher who was teaching 1st year English.

Reuben pushed me to find ways of learning and practicing Spanish, and Gerardo worked with me to create the Gringo Guide. I’m the gringo — and I sure needed a guide to get me through the experience of living in Mexico.

We searched the internet, and books on Spanish, and listened to conversations in the English speaking sections of restaurants in Ajijic and San Miguel de Allende where most of the gringos hang out.

By the time we were finished, so was the book and we had part of it recorded so that pronunciation would be no problem for anyone to learn. The book was finished and put up on our site speedread.org

By the time we were finished, so was the book and we had part of it recorded so that pronunciation would be no problem for anyone to learn. The book was finished and put up on our site, www.speedread.org

Now, everyone I know who visits Mexico, Spanish or anywhere else in Latin America - can speak like a expat that lives in Mexico. It’s that easy. The audios cover every unique sound of Spanish speech. The printed book will fit in your shirt pocket for use whenever you want.

The audios cover every pecularity of pronounciation in the Spanish language. The printed book will fit in your shirt pocket for use whenever you want. The electronic pdf will fit on pocket devices to help you communicate on the spot with electronic support.

So, when someone says: Que quieres tomar? You’ll immediately know the answer — una marguarita, por favor. Or, una coca, limonada, cerveza, or whatever you want!Fulfill all your needs to communicate in Spanish for Spain, Mexico or Latin America?

The book comes with a full guide, by sections to learn, use, and get answers to all your questions. It’s guaranteed to make your vacation — fantastic.

Vacationing in Mexico, Latin America, Spain, learn the Spanish you need to enjoy your trip like you were born there. Gringo Guide for Speaking SpanishPocket sized printed edition or digital guide with mp3 to learn sounds. Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber Article Directory

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Multitask With Audio Spanish Lessons

Filed Under (Spanish) by George Dodge on 14-09-2009

Audio Spanish lessons furnish those who need to learn Spanish or refresh themselves on what they have already learned with a technique to review or learn that enables them to do other stuff simultaneously. You can learn the language while concurrently doing a number of other jobs.

I have personally listened to audio Spanish language lessons on cassettes, CDs and now, of course as MP3 files on my iPod while walking, driving, working around the gardens and house and while traveling to work on the train. Since you can upload audio Spanish lessons as MP3 files onto a moble player, it’s simple to study your audio Spanish lessons anywhere you happen to be located.

Audio Spanish lessons let you multitask, thus leveraging your time. You now have the ability to learn Spanish while ironing, cooking, doing the wash, cleaning, gardening, commuting, memorization syndrome or they were computer based programs that were making an attempt to imitate Rosetta Stone’s highly successful program. They failed totally. They were either extraordinarily clunky, even silly in a number of cases, or contained countless bugs. The experience was very disappointing.

The advantage of the three programs mentioned above is they address the reading of Spanish in addition to speaking skills. The Pimsleur Spanish program also has some very good audio Spanish lessons, but it’s severly lacking in addressing reading skills. However, enhanced with extra materials, it gives a good intro to conversational Spanish.

George Dodge began studying the Spanish language in 1973 at the University of Arizona and has used many home study programs as well. Read his top recommended programs for learning the Spanish language

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