52 Weeks of Family Spanish: Bite Sized Weekly Lessons to Get You and Children Speaking Spanish Together! Paperback – July 31, 2012

I am a fluent spanish speaking mother who never taught her children how to speak spanish and now I regret it. lol Ok so although I am fluent I honestly had no idea where to start with my children who already are used to me speaking English with them and don't even know the basics of Spanish so I bought this book (and several others) to give me a road map on where to start. Out of all my purchases for this issue this one is my favorite. It has mini lessons based on conversational spanish that begin with vocabulary. So now I know what to focus on first. It has grammar notes, cultural notes and phonetic spelling. The cultural notes are not just Mexico or Spain related and introduces many spanish speaking countries and their different cultures. I plan on using this little cultural note to point me towards teaching my children more about other countries. I will have to change a few words in the book for my specific dialect which is OK I am not complaining!

I am teaching Spanish to my homeschooled children and wanted to find some texts and workdbooks to complement our Duolingo lessons (free online lessons similar to Rosetta Stone). After looking at no less than 50 different books, I chose this, and I love it. It is full of helpful phrases and lessons that we can incorporate into our daily life a few at a time. I make flashcards of the phrases, and also make a list on a board of phrases for the kids to practice when communicating as a family. For example, one of the phrases this week, they had to ask for things by saying "Puedo tener ____" (Can I have ____?). Each week's lessons covers a different set of phrases or subject matter. We make flash cards to practice, and it has been a great building tool for our vocabulary and application. It is helping us find ways to actually use the language we are learning in our home as we communicate as a family.

I bought this book for my family to learn Spanish. It is broken down into useful units of conversation. Along with a phonetic guide. The thing that bothered me as a Mexican Spanish speaker was that this pronunciation encourages a common American approach to the "e" vowel which turns it into the dipthong "ay" and that is what she writes as the pronunciation. For example the word sietate reads see-yeh-tah-tay so the Spanish spelling is incorrect, sit down is actually sientate and pronounced see-yehn-ta-teh.I liked the structure and organization of the book but feel this should have been edited by a native Spanish speaker. Fortunately I am making this corrections for my family. If you buy the book you should run it by a Spanish speaker.

I teach a Mommy & Me Spanish class and I am using 52 Weeks of Family Spanish as our book. I think this book is a great resource for parents who would like to help their kids begin using Spanish everyday in their daily routines. The book teaches nearly 200 new words and phrases and suggests games or activities to practice using those new words and phrases. Those who are not fluent in Spanish or well-versed in grammar will like this book as the lessons are concise and not overwhelming. Unfortunately families cannot learn Spanish completely from a one-hour lesson a week--that is why I love this book because it helps families start using Spanish at home in their everyday lives in fun, engaging ways.

Although I am having fun using this book to expand my Spanish vocabulary as I get further into the book there are several errors in the terms, spacing issues, and it makes me distrust the information in the cultural sections. I am still learning from it, and I think it's a valuable book for beginners. I think there could have been more attention to detail from the editor.

Super easy and fun. The weekly phrases are small and not intimidating at all. Perfect for everyday use with your kids. I wish my parents would have introduced me to Spanish at a young age. Hopefully, I can give my kids a head start before learning higher levels in high school. ( They are 8, 7, and 5) Have fun with it!

This book helps you learn conversational Spanish at your own speed. It takes the stress out of trying to memorize verb tenses, plural or singular subjects and verbs. And it does this by starting out with short sentences. Some are even one word sentences like the Spanish word "hola" which means Hello in English. It's a fun and simple way to start speaking Spanish right away. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn conversational Spanish.

I’m Hispanic, and I speak Spanish fluently 100%; I’m looking for a guide for my family to practice their Spanish. This book seems like a good idea, except that it has a bunch of grammar and expressions that are really incorrect; if you are looking to learn Spanish with your kids, you’re going to finish speaking really bad Spanish, not even getting to the first lesson I found a lot of mistakes. And this point, I’m just going to use it as a guide, but it has poor Spanish. The author doesn’t seem to be a certified translator; in the introduction she said she only knows 80%. Who authorized this book to be published? But the author had a good idea, just not good Spanish.