3000 Spanish Words in Context

3000 Spanish Words in Context
Author: Timothy Aberdier
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-02-27
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781798225202

Learn the most commonly used Spanish words and increase your Spanish vocabulary the easy way. The 3000 words in this book will enable you to understand over 90% of the Spanish language. You will find 1550 nouns, 600 Spanish verbs, 500 adjectives, 350 other words, thematic word lists (food, home, items, etc.), and useful Spanish phrases.

3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won't Teach You in School

3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won't Teach You in School
Author: Eleanor Hamer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 162087279X

There’s a difference between learning a language and being able to speak it with the familiarity of a native speaker. This book fills that gap, clarifying tricky words and expressions and illuminating the finer points of Spanish wordplay and double meanings.

3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won't Teach You in School

3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won't Teach You in School
Author: Eleanor Hamer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1510725377

No matter how much Spanish you study, it’s nearly impossible to fully convince the native-speakers that you’ve got it. Even those estudiantes perfectos who have seemingly mastered speaking a foreign language in a classroom run into problems in real-life situations. 3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won’t Teach You in School goes beyond classroom Spanish by thoroughly explaining expressions, idioms, and quirks used daily by native speakers. This must-have manual also includes information on pronunciation, manners, abbreviations, and culture, making it much more than a phrase book! Learn within these pages everything you need to know to speak colloquial Spanish, including: Translation of common proverbs: like When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Slang: Like ¡Alivianate!— cheer up or get high Dual words: like integro and entero—with the same meaning. False cognates: Words that are similar but have very different meanings in English and Spanish So next time you plan a trip or just want to impress your friends, pick up 3,000 Spanish Words and Phrases They Won’t Teach You in School and drop the stuffy high school phrase book!

Popular Science

Popular Science
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1954-03
Genre:
ISBN:

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Spanish English Cognates

Spanish English Cognates
Author: Luz B. Gallego
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780978653132

There is a buried treasure chest of Spanish vocabulary. In this treasure chest there are thousands of Spanish words that you already know. This treasure chest is the collection of Spanish English cognates. Spanish English cognates are words in both languages that share the same root and are are very similar. This book covers 3,465 pairs of the most frequently used Spanish English cognates. These cognates are organized into 40 lists for easy study. A handy index (by Spanish words) is provided at the end of the book.

Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition
Author: Brian Richards
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2009-06-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230242251

International scholars and researchers present cutting edge contributions on the significance of vocabulary in current thinking on first and second language acquisition in the school and at home. By pursuing common themes across first and second language and bilingual contexts, the editors offer a collection that tackles the most important issues.

Mastering Spanish Words

Mastering Spanish Words
Author: Language Equipped Travelers
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre:
ISBN:

How many words do we use when we speak? According to some publications, while a two-year-old baby uses around two hundred words, a beginner in any language needs around two thousand to communicate. And an expert user can employ up to forty thousand! But knowing words and their meanings is hardly enough. If you want to learn Spanish to actually use it, be it for traveling, working or studying, you need to really master your vocabulary: you need to know synonyms, you need to know which prepositions are used next to which verbs and how words change their meaning in different contexts. In this book, we offer a comprehensive list of the 3.000 most frequent words of the Spanish language, according to the Real Academia Española, Spain's official royal institution dedicated to the Spanish language. We did not just include the words and their meanings, but also eventual indications for you to understand the use of the word since translations are otherwise incomplete. For example, we indicate if it's a masculine or feminine word, if it's a plural word and if it belongs to a verbal tense that does not translate literally into English. Additionally, we indicate if the word has more than one meaning so you can avoid confusion. And, of course, for each word we include a practical example, a sentence that in a few words tells a story and helps you understand how the word is used in the real Spanish-speaking world. By the time you're finished with this book, your vocabulary will be comparably better, richer, and wider. Ready to give it a go? Start right away! You'll feel the difference... and everyone else will notice too! Scroll up and click the "add to cart" button now to get started!

A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Author: Mark Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 113411091X

An invaluable tool for learners of Portuguese, this Frequency Dictionary provides a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a twenty-million-word collection of Portuguese (taken from both Portuguese and Brazilian sources), which includes both written and spoken material, this dictionary provides detailed information for each of the 5000 entries, including the English equivalent, a sample sentence, and an indication of register and dialect variation. Users can access the top 5000 words either through the main frequency listing or through an alphabetical index. Throughout the frequency listing there are also thrity thematically-organized ‘boxed’ lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, weather, clothing and relations. An engaging and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their study of Portuguese vocabulary. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415419970 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work.

Fluent Forever

Fluent Forever
Author: Gabriel Wyner
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 038534810X

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide

The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide
Author: Eleanor Hamer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1628730323

If you were dropped into the middle of Managua, Mexico City, or Miami, would you know how to speak not only the language, but also the lingo? In The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide, the reader who is already familiar with Spanish will discover the banter and metaphor (both polite and rude) that enrich the spoken language as it is really used, hints on avoiding embarrassing mistakes in grammar, and a list of dreaded false cognates. Full of advice on pronunciation and tips on customs and manners, and keyed with time-saving symbols, this is the best guide available to understanding and appreciating Spanish as it is spoken in Latin America and the United States.