Product Description

For two-semester or three-semester courses in beginning Spanish.

íTrato hecho! Spanish for Real Life is a “hands-on,” modular beginning Spanish program which stresses the features of Spanish needed for everyday communication and applies them immediately to realistic settings. íTrato hecho! builds proficiency in Spanish and an appreciation for the Spanish language. It also develops students' understanding of Hispanic cultures and their growing importance in the world, while providing contexts that reinforce the usefulness of Spanish in today's global economy, particularly in North America.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2474468 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-10
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 494 pages

Customer Reviews

A great book for learning the basics of spanish.
This book has most of the basics of the spanish language. Through colorful pictures, thoughtful exercises, and culture tid-bits, this book gets the job done.

A great combination of grammar and vocabulary!
Trato hecho is a revolutionary book that combines vocabulary and grammar in a wonderful, meaningful way. The introduction of the vocabulary in the first two parts of every episode gives the students the opportunity of getting into the subject and theme. Once this is done, the third part of that episode introduces the grammar in the same context that has been settled already. A great way to introduce grammar instead of just explaining a point and do meaningless and mechanical exercises on it.This is a perfect book for long classes (one hour and a half or so, per episode). The workbook supplies extra material and is very well designed. There is no problem like with other books in which you have to select what exercises are good and which ones you can just throw to the garbage.

Poor choice for anyone studying Spanish.
This textbook is a poor choice for anyone studying Spanish. There are too many mistakes and due to these mistakes, Spanish language students will suffer the consequences by not having the correct information. The layout of the book is also confusing. Vocabulary lists are provided at the end of each chapter. This means that anyone who is working on a particular exercise must constantly page back and forth. There are also a lot of grammatical elements that appear in exercises which students have yet to cover, thereby leaving the student confused and misguided. The glossary is also poorly designed. Anyone using a foreign language textbook should be able to look in the glossary for vocabulary that had been covered in the book. Instead, one must refer back to the chapter in which the vocabulary appeared. Such a task has proven to be fruitless and exasperating. Why make the process of learning and studying a foreign language more difficult than it already is?