Cloud Hands: Learning to Read Spanish

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Learning to Read Spanish

Learning to Read in Spanish
I am studying and learning each day to improve my ability to READ text in Spanish in 2021. This is a self-study program of learning.

We 75 year old men need to challenge our brains, train our eyes and memory, and challenge ourselves to learn and think more. I used $500 of our U.S. stimulus check to fund this educational opportunity and challenge. Hopefully, authors, publishers, and retail bookstores (e.g., Barnes and Noble in Vancouver, Powell's in Portland) and online booksellers (e.g., Amazon, Barnes and Noble) will all benefit from these purchases.

I have been Using Spanish in translating chapters from the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. List of Spanish language translations, notes on translating, my project on indexing the Daodejing, and some of the books and links I use to learn to read in Spanish.

Here are the resources that I am using for learning to read Spanish in 2021:

Better Reading Spanish, Second Edition. By Jean Yates. McGraw Hill, 2011, 272 pages, $16.00.

Easy Spanish Reader: Three Part Text for Beginning Students. Text in Spanish, questions, vocabulary, notes. By William T. Tardy. McGraw Hill, 2006, 218 pages, $16.00.

Easy Spanish Step-by-Step: Master High Frequency Grammar. By Barbara Bregstein. 1st Edition, Kindle. Mcgraw-Hill, 2005, 448 pages, $10.00 Kindle.

English and Spanish: The Similarities and Differences. By Scott Paulson. Kindle, $4.00, 2019, 51 pages.

501 Spanish Verbs. By Christopher Kendris and Theodore Kendris. Baron's, 2020, $16.00

Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century. A Spanish and English, Dual-Language Book. Edited by Anna Hiller. Dover, 2013, 288 pages, $16.00.

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach. By Margarita Madrigal. Crown, 1989, 512 pages, Book $12.00, Kindle $11.00.

Merriam-Webster's Easy Learning Complete Spanish: Grammar + Verbs + Vocabulary. Second Edition, 2016, 703 pages, $19.00.

Mastering Spanish Vocabulary: A Thematic Approach. Barron's Foreign Language Guides. By Jose Maria Navarro and Axel J. Navarro Ramil. Barrons, 2010, 490 pages, $20.00. Includes an audio CD.

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial Spanish-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1989, 888 pages, $15.00.

Random House Webster's Spanish-English and English-Spanish Dictionary, Second Edition, 1995, 694 pages, $18.00.

Rosetta Stone, Software, Lifetime, Spanish $200

Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners. Edited by Olly Richards. Teach Yourself Books, 2018, 238 pages, $15.00.

Spanish-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary. By DK Publisher, 360 pages, 2017, Kindle, $8.00.

Spanish Flashcards: 800 Important Spanish-English and English-Spanish Flash Cards. By Phinhok Languages. Kindle Edition. $11.00

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners. Kindle. $4.50

Spanish Short Stories 1, Parallel Text, Spanish and English Edition. Edited by Jean Franco. Penguin, 1966, 203 pages, $19.00.

201 Spanish Words You Need to Know Flashcards. Barron's Foreign Language Guides. By Theodore Kendris. 2019, $10.00

Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary for Students. Merriam-Webster, 2014, Second Edition, 365 pages, $6.00. Light and handy.

Total Cost: $479.00 as of 2/22/2021. Budget in 2021 for Spanish language learning resources, classes, lessons, books, materials, software: $500.00.

Supplementary Reading Materials in Spanish