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Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French

A Short Guide

Patricia V Lunn author Anita Jon Alkhas author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Georgetown University Press

Published:1st Aug '17

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Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French is the perfect quick-start guide for your next language. Lunn and Alkhas have cut to the chase with their succinct contrastive grammar and just enough targeted examples. Get the basics here, and then apply these lessons to your preferred form of practice. -- Terrell Morgan, Professor Hispanic Linguistics, Ohio State University

Provides adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as a second language with the tools to learn the other language as a third language. This book is suitable for students, travelers, and budding multilinguals.Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French provides adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as a second language with the tools to learn the other language as a third language. All human languages have some common elements, but certain languages-because of their shared history-have a great deal in common. French and Spanish are ideal candidates for an approach that highlights their differences in the context of their commonalities. Research in the growing fields of third-language acquisition and multilingualism documents how successful third-language learners intuitively build on the knowledge they acquired while learning a second language. The book takes advantage of the fact that learners with intermediate proficiency in a second language are used to thinking consciously about language, know themselves as language learners, and can capitalize on what they know about one language to understand the other. For students, travelers, and budding multilinguals, the book will accelerate the learning of French or Spanish as a third language.

Lunn and Alkhas do not present the book as a textbook but rather a short guide to these two languages that have a lot in common. The best potential audience for this short guide may be teachers of French and Spanish because it serves as a reference for those who are regularly switching between the two languages. * The French Review *
A useful book that offers a contrastive view for English speakers who have knowledge of either of those languages and who wish to study them through similar and differing linguistic aspects of each. * Hispania *

ISBN: 9781626164253

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 204g

156 pages