Spanish Memory Book: A New Approach to Vocabulary Building, Junior Edition

By William F. Harrison and Dorothy Winters Welker

Book Overview

Mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer onginal mnemonic rimes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.

Included are mnemonic jingles for several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have also included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and consonants.

This innovative approach, which the authors have used successfully with their own students, is simple, effective, and entertaining. In the words of one student, "This book teaches me not only Spanish words but English words as well."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292730810
• ISBN13: 9780292730816
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

mneumonics:a novel approach

Although I'm aware of the criticisms of this approach (that you should learn a language through material already acquired in that language) how do you start out if you don't have little or no stuff to start with?I haven;t referred to the Spanish Memory Book for a few months, yet I clearly remember most of the jingles, the words, and the meanings as well. In addition, I find myself making up my own jingles for Spanish and for other languages.