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The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary: 30,000 Words Through Cognates, Roots, and Suffixes

Scott Thomas

A new, and dramaticallyimproved, three-prongedapproach to learning Spanishvocabulary

The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabularyis much, much more than a Spanish vocabularyreference! This unique and completeresource combines three complementaryapproaches to vocabulary building--cognates, root families, and suffixes--toinstantly increase word familiarity and aidmemorization.

Whether for active face-to-face communicationor passive comprehension of written orspoken words, an in-depth knowledge ofvocabulary is the key to foreign languagemastery. The Big Red Book of SpanishVocabulary makes acquiring this masterysimpler and more straightforward than everbefore by providing:

  • An extensive thematic list of Spanishcognates and an alphabetic glossary ofSpanish root families--both with morethan 14,000 entries
  • A comprehensive listing of the 130 mostcommon Spanish suffixes, with 4,000common examples
  • A frequency index listing the 5,000 mostfrequently used words in Spanish
  • An alphabetic index cross-referencingevery entry in the root, suffix, andfrequency sections

Book Details

  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Publish Date: Sep 16th, 2005
  • Pages: 640
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.12in - 6.96in - 1.31in - 2.15lb
  • EAN: 9780071447256
  • Categories: Spanish

About the Author

Thomas, Scott: -

Scott Thomas and Gaby Thomas are veteran translators, interpreters, and teachers. Rose Nash, Ph.D., is a professor emerita of Linguistics. Dorothy Richmond is a successful author of Spanish-language books.