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Title: A very effective self-study course in Spanish reading, which will both demand your time, and reward it.
Review: This book has an excellent instructional design: a series of more-challenging chapters, each one concluding with a Spanish language essay (taken from real life), and preceded by preparatory exercises in a variety of formats: multiple choice (with the correct answer on the right margin that you are to cover up as you go), fill in the blank, English/Spanish side-by-side and so on.The way to approach this book successfully is precisely as Drs. Franco and Sandberg expressly tell you on page "ix": that this will take "80 to 120 hours of study time," in which you "review consistently" and "study in short blocks of time." If you do this, "it works." I chose to purchase a paper copy (8-1/2" x 11" pages) and feel that this was the best format. I have worked through the material now for the first time, and am thoughtfully repeating it.
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