Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French: A Short Guide

by Patricia V. Lunn, Anita Jon Alkhas

Overview

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 as a third language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626164253
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2017
Edition description:	Multilingu
Pages:	156
Sales rank:	794,770
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Patricia V. Lunn is a professor emerita of Spanish at Michigan State University. She is the coauthor of, among other books and articles, En otras palabras: Perfeccionamiento del español por medio de la traducción, segunda edición (GUP).

Anita Jon Alkhas is an associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has contributed articles to the Contemporary French Civilization, the French Review, and Georges Sand Studies, among other journals.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. ¿Cómo se escriben los sonidos?/Comment s’ écrivent les sons?

2. ¿Cómo se clasifican y se describen los sustantivos?/Comment se classifient et se décrivent les noms?

3. ¿Cómo funcionan los pronombres?/Comment s’ emploient les pronoms?

4. ¿Cómo se conjugan y se interpretan los verbos?/Comment se conjuguent et s’ interprètent les verbes?

5. ¿Cómo se estructuran las frases?/Comment se structurent les phrases?

6. ¿Cómo se clasifican las palabras?/Comment se classifient les mots?

7. ¿Cuál es la lengua más difícil?/Quelle langue est la plus difficile?

Answer KeyParallel TextsVerb Conjugation ChartsGlossary

What People are Saying About This

Terrell Morgan

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.

Editorial Reviews

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.

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.

From the Publisher

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

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

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