Spanish to English --- Build Your Reading Vocabulary: English to Spanish - Paperback

by Jean Marie Miscisin (Author)

Use the 1,000 plus words in this book to facilitate meaningful connections between Spanish and English. If you can read and understand Spanish, this knowledge can be employed to improve your reading vocabulary in English. If you can read and understand English this knowledge can be employed to improve your reading vocabulary in Spanish. This book includes "158 Study Sets" indicating the similarities between the Spanish and English words. The dictionary definitions are similar and very closely related in both languages. Remember words only have meaning when expressed in the context of complete thoughts and written in sentences. Your progress is up to YOU. For more advanced practice lessons, write sentences or even paragraphs using the language with which you are familiar and then translate them into the language you are improving.

Author Biography

Jean Marie Miscisin has an earned Masters Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from California State University, Stanislaus. Jean Marie taught English to the Spanish Speaking Migrant Workers of Stanislaus County in California for "Five Seasons." From 1987 to 1995, Jean Marie taught students from twenty-three different countries to improve their Language Arts Skills in English at Modesto Junior College in California. From 1996 to 2004, Jean Marie taught students in the Elementary Grades - Kindergarten through Sixth, the basics of Language Arts in English. From 2001 to 2004, most of these students had to learn the very basics of communication in English, and one year Jean Marie had forty-one students from nineteen different countries.