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During its long life in print Practical Spoken Spanish has sold more than 50,000 copies, and the demand for it has increased as word of its usefulness has spread. The method employed in this bookthe natural method of learning a spoken languageis used by successful language teachers everywhere, in many tongues besides Spanish. Countless admirers have testified to the value of Practical Spoken Spanish in their studies at home, on radio and television, and in the classroom. The author, the late F. M. Kercheville, was a pioneer in the field of Spanish language education and an early advocate of basic principles in language learning that are now widely accepted. His efforts were important in widening the circle of friendship that results from more and more Americans being able to speak and understand the language of their Spanish-speaking neighbors.
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This text is dedicated to all my present and former students of Spanish, especially those students who have studied with me in newspapers and on radio and television, most of whom I have never met personally. F. M. Kercheville
F. M. KERCHEVILLE 1934, 1935, 1936 1938, 1940, 1942, 1959
All Rights Reserved
Seventh Edition
Fifteenth printing, 1998
Manufactured in the United States of America
ISBN 0-8263-0059-6
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 35-4432
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PREFACE
Seventh Edition, Revised
This text, PRACTICAL SPOKEN SPANISH, is the direct result of several years' experience in teaching Spanish in the classroom, in newspapers, over the radio, and on television. The author has long felt that there is a growing need and an insistent demand for a simple, easy, practical text in conversational Spanish, which would present only the very minimum essentials of grammar. Such a handbook of spoken Spanish should stress pronunciation, vocabulary building, and usable idioms and sentences. It is hoped that this brief text fills the need and answers the demand for effective aid in individual study, in the laboratory and in everyday life situations.
In writing PRACTICAL SPOKEN SPANISH the author has purposely departed from the usual procedure in such cases. This text illustrates the natural method of learning a language. The book is so planned that the first five lessons deal exclusively with sounds and pronunciation. They stress particularly the differences between the pronunciation of Spanish and that of English. The next ten lessons deal entirely with vocabulary building (words and phrases), simple reading, and conversation. The material of this section deals largely with our neighbor republic to the south, Mexico. The formal treatment of the minimum essentials of grammar is left for the next ten lessons of the book, in a section dealing largely with Central and South America.
The reading material in the last twenty-five lessons is based on our own American Southwest.
In this way it is hoped that those using the text will first acquire a knowledge of pronunciation, after which they are
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given a chance to build a workable vocabulary from easy reading material and brief questions and answers. Then, and not until then, the students are introduced to a formal presentation of the most necessary fundamentals of Spanish grammar. The chief object of the text is, therefore, to stimulate interest in the Spanish language, and to allow that interest to carry the students through to a more thorough working knowledge of the language. This, it is believed, is a marked departure from the plan of most Spanish texts, which go almost immediately into a formal presentation of grammar. PRACTICAL SPOKEN SPANISH should prove of value in individual study, in the classroom and language laboratory, in newspaper courses, and in radio and television Spanish lessons.
In the preparation of this text the author wishes to acknowledge his thanks to the Allyn and Bacon Publishing Company and to Professor Philip Warner Harry for permission to use certain material found in Ancdotas Espaolas.
F. M. KERCHEVILLE KINGSVILLE, TEXAS
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INTRODUCTION
The study of Spanish is rapidly gaining favor in the movement for a genuine spirit of Pan-Americanism based upon a sincere desire for a better understanding between English-speaking and Spanish-speaking America. Since language is the vehicle for the expression of a people's thoughts, hopes, and ideals, it is but natural that citizens of the United States should become more and more interested in the study of the language of Spanish America. This interest is manifest in recent books, magazines, newspaper articles, and in radio and television programs.
A reading knowledge of a language is very useful and profitable, but in these days when the Americas are being brought so close together by international highways and inter-American airways, a speaking knowledge of the Spanish language is absolutely essential. It will continue to become more and more essential. Much of the so-called prejudice toward the study of a foreign language should disappear when one considers that Spanish is not, and should not be, thought of as a foreign language anywhere in the Americas.
In order to acquire a practical speaking knowledge of Spanish, students must be drilled on pronunciation, on vocabulary building, and on simple questions and answers. They must also possess a knowledge of certain minimum essentials of grammar.
Students will note that the bi-lingual procedure is used throughout this text. Each word employed in all the sentences, and questions used for practice in reading and speaking, is given in both Spanish and English in a complete vocabulary preceding each lesson. This aids in vocabulary building and in the observance of similarities and differences in the two languages. This procedure also
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eliminates the necessity of placing a vocabulary of several pages at the end of the text. The student should, therefore, learn to remember each new word as it occurs in the book. The pages ordinarily used for a vocabulary are utilized in supplying for the students many very useful idiomatic expressions, which they should incorporate into their working knowledge of Spanish.
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