{"id":258,"date":"2011-07-19T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:57:14","slug":"learn-spanish-with-books-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/learn-spanish-with-books-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Spanish with Books (part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had listened to a lot of songs in order to learn Spanish<\/a> once I had picked up the basics in a few Spanish classes in Ecuador.
\nUnfortunately, while this meant that I had a rather hip, street wise way of speaking (at least in my head) it meant that I wasn\u2019t really that great in carrying out serious conversations with normal people who didn\u2019t end every sentence in a rhyme. Once I managed to get hold of a job working in a bank in Spain I decided it was time to brush up a little on a more formal way of speaking before I offended or confused some people.
\nI guessed that reading a few classic books would be a good idea of learning a more appropriate way of talking to customers and colleagues in the bank and of gaining a wider range of words. These are the books I chose together with a note of how useful I found them to be.
\nEl Alquimista \u2013 Paolo Coelho. This is an excellent choice for anyone with a basic grasp of the language who wants to improve their knowledge and vocabulary with a book which is fairly easy to pick up and get started on. The grammar is really simple and it is written in a way which I reckon makes it one of best books for someone just starting to learn Spanish<\/a>, which I think might be because it\u2019s been translated from Portuguese. It also has some very good messages in it and it is well worth looking for.
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