Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French a short guide / Patricia V. Lunn and Anita Alkhas.

Contents ℗�C©đmo se pronuncia y c©đmo se escribe? / Comment se prononcent et s'©♭crivent les mots? -- Stress and accent marks -- Consonants -- Vowels -- ℗�C©đmo se clasifican y se describen los sustantivos? / Comment se classifient et se d©♭crivent les noms? -- Articles -- Gender -- Number -- Demonstrative and possessive adjectives -- ℗�C©đmo funcionan los pronombres? / Comment s'emploient les pronoms? -- Subjects and subject pronouns -- Direct objects and direct object pronouns -- Indirect objects and indirect object pronouns -- Reflexive pronouns -- Pronoun order -- Relative pronouns -- Demonstrative pronouns -- Forms of address -- ℗�C©đmo se conjugan y se interpretan los verbos? / Comment se conjuguent et s'interpr©·tent les verbes? -- Conjugation -- Tense : timeframe of events -- Aspect : perspective on events -- Mood : evaluation of events -- Voice : causation of events -- Ser and estar in Spanish -- ℗�C©đmo se estructuran las frases? / Comment se structurent les phrases? -- Questions -- Negation -- Commands -- Word order -- ℗�C©đmo se clasifican las palabras? / Comment se classifient les mots? -- Adverbs -- Prepositions -- Cognates and false cognates -- Loanwords -- Derived words -- ℗�Cu©Łl es la lengua m©Łs dif©Ưcil? / Quelle langue est la plus difficile? -- Answer key -- Parallel texts -- Verb conjugation charts -- Glossary.
Abstract All human languages have some things in common, but certain languages--because of their shared history--have a great deal in common. Those commonalities can help a learner proficient in one of a pair of related languages learn the second language more quickly. This book will serve as a catalyst for adult English speakers who have learned either Spanish or French as an L2 and wish to learn the other language as an L3. The manual takes advantage of the fact that learners with intermediate proficiency in an L2 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. The manual contains seven chapters that present concise and linguistically accurate descriptions of the paired languages, provide targeted exercises with answer keys, and give many examples of each principle. Audio files help with pronunciation. Parallel texts are short readings that help illustrate contrasts and similarities. The book aims to accelerate the work of third-language learning for students, travelers, and budding multilinguals.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Lunn, Patricia V. (Patricia Vining), 1946- author. Learning French from Spanish and Spanish from French Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2017] 9781626164253
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