A PRACTICAL METHOD 



FOR 



Learning Spanish 



BY 



A. RAMOS DIAZ DE VILLEGAS 



" Spanish is not under any circumstances a difficult language 

 to learn. It has in its construction and pronunciation an encour- 

 agint; directness very unlike the grammatical involutions of German 

 and the delicate sound -shadings of French. Working in accord- 

 ance with the rules of almost any 'system,' a diligent student can 

 in a very little while acquire a fair mastery of the language; though 

 it is true that some of the * systems ' are much more difficult than 

 others. One of the simplest and best of them all is * A Practical 

 Method for Learning Spanish,' by Seiior A. Ramos Diaz de 

 Villegas, just now published by William S. Gottsberger, New York. 

 The ' method ' of Sefior de Villegas comprehends a collection of 

 anecdotes arranged in short lines with an English translation, 

 similarly arranged, on the corresponding opposite page ; familiar 

 phrases, with idiomatic renderings in English in parallel columns ; 

 a vocabulary of words in common use, and a complete list of the 

 Spanish irregular verbs. It will be observed that this method 

 hardly can be called original ; that it is more or less that of Morales, 

 of Velazquez, of Prendergast, and that some of its features are 

 found in Ollendorff and in Ahn ; but in simplicity of arrangement 

 and directness of purpose it is superior to all of these — Prendergast 

 possibly excepted. It certainly is what it is called — a practical 

 method for learning Spanish. With a relatively small outlay of 

 mental exertion it produces exceptionally good results." — Philadel- 

 phia Times ^ June 2^, 1882. 



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