Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode (Spanish Edition) 6th Edition

THIS BOOK CAME FROM TRIED AND TRUE METHODS OF TEACHING SPANISH!Best spanish teacher ever! Jeanne Egasse at Irvine Valley College. (1981) She spoke a little english the first day and then spoke to us in Spanish the rest of the semester. She was so theatric, you could understand every word, even without knowing every word. Great teaching and communicating skills.She taught spanish "the natural method" You know the method you use to teach children your language. You point to an apple and say "apple." and you go on from there. I learned more from one semester in her Spanish class than 4 years of German in high school.BEST SPANISH TEACHER! BEST BOOK! (not matter what edition)

I've been using Dos Mundos in my Spanish III class this fall and it's been a quite positive experience. I'm a former English teacher, and a long time psychologist, so I have some feel for the teaching/learning dynamic of a text. I'm finding DM to be intelligently written and organized, with many different kinds of activities that build on and integrate what you're learning. I like the way history, art, pop culture, geography, politics, music, literature, etc. are interspersed throughout DM. There's cartoons, color, and a reasonably unstilted, good-hearted consciousness in the book. For those of us used to American textbooks which have been reduced to squirmy blandness by pressure groups leaning on state textbook purchasing agencies, it's a bit refreshing to encounter occasional perspectives on economic and political injustice, environmental exploitation, etc. Not that this is a particularly political book, it's just that these things are usually soooooo sanitized. Some people have complained about the lack of an English to Spanish dictionary in this book. Face it---you need to buy a little dictionary to have when you're reading DM and learning Spanish. No added-on dictionary section is going to be complete enough to meet your needs. You'll only be wasting time using it, since half the time the word you're looking for won't be there anyway. You might as well go to the dictionary in the first place. To sum it up: I like this book and I'm in the process of reading the seven chapters which were previously covered in Spanish I and II, which I didn't take in this sequence.

I am a retired college Spanish teacher. I used this book in teaching conversational Spanish. The first part of this book in Paso A, B, C. and Capitulo 1 and 2 are very good for teaching Spanish to people who have to deal with the public and have to get personal information such as name, address, telephone number, birth date, country of origin, family information and numbers. McGraw-Hill still supports a website for this textbook with a nice lab audio programfor building listening comprehension. I liked the book when I used it a a full-time teacher and now when I conduct continuing education classes. The latest version of the textbook called Tu Mundo, in my opinion, is not at good as this old timer 6th edition Dennis Pearce

Useful book throughout these years and I am still reading it to learn spanish

I wish I could find a book for asian languages done in the same way Dos Mundos has been done. Is it good for someone self-studying spanish? Maybe. It's magnificent power is best wielded by a good teacher. I still carry the legacy of having used this in uni with excellent professors (props to GU QLD Australia) and cannot rate it highly enough. And I know I'm not supposed to rate how good the seller or shipping was but props also to betterworldbooks. My book came from the US to Australia in less than 2 weeks. Awesome.

this is not a bad spanish book. i don't know if i would say it is great. lots of group activities that are helpful, but they are pretty simple and repetitive. they need to be a little more thoughtful and put in lots of DIFFERENT activities. one last, quite frustrating thing, there is only a spanish-english dictionary in the back. extremely irritating because this is a spanish 1-2 book, and anytime you want to look up a word, you'll need to consult another dictionary.

I have loved Dos Mundos for a long, long time. The many illustrations and conversation activities make learning first-year Spanish fun. Students learn to speak from the beginning and by the end of the year can speak surprisingly well and with fluidity. Grammar is done at home, so the classroom can be used for speaking and reinforcing the grammar and vocabulary the chapter teaches.

Brand new, affordable, and with everything necessary to get an understanding of reading writing and speaking Spanish.