Spanish learning books

One of the language learning techniques I read, can't remember where, was to trawl the secondhand bookshops to buy lots of learn Spanish books, and then work through the first chapter of each one, then chapter two, etc.

I think there are a couple of good points to this strategy. First is that, in a sense, if you get ten cheap secondhand books and work through the first chapter, you're probably going to find by the end of it you know how to say "Hello, I'm Les and I'm from Jupiter" and in one sense that's the book's vote on what's the most important thing. Whether it is or not is the subject for another blog I think.

The second is, if you want to understand something, it's always good to get two or more books to explain it to you. Then you don't just have one view, you have a few different styles.

I guess also if the books have tapes or CDs where you can listen to native Spanish speakers saying the phrases, perhaps that gives you a few different accents to experience.

So take a wander to your local secondhand book shop and buy all the learn Spanish books. It's probably not worth doing it with Amazon or eBay, just think of the book miles required and support your local bookstore :-)