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We offer a collection of books that complement our podcasts, videos and online materials. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced student, our books provide clear explanations, real Spanish examples and practical exercises to help you improve step by step.
Audio Books
For those of you who would prefer to have our audio books, we are now published on Audible and Spotify as well as many other Audio Book platforms! Take a look here!
Perfecting the Prepositions in Spanish
This book is designed to help you to deal with the more tricky part of learning Spanish which is knowing what Preposition goes with what verb. Filled with great systems and encouragement, along with supporting Flashcards to ensure the learning sticks, it’s everything that you need!
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Ser and Estar made Simple
Ser and Estar made Simple is a workbook designed to walk you through a series of easy concepts that will allow you to really begin to use these two verbs with confidence. Not only do we help you with the Present Tense but we also show you exactly how to deal with those tricky Was Were sentences and so much more!
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Victor’s Adventures in Spain
Victor’s Adventures in Spain is a 258-page parallel textbook, workbook, and audiobook unlike anything else on the Spanish language learning market. We have already sold hundreds of copies and received dozens and dozens of positive reviews on Amazon. Find out for yourself just what makes Victor so popular.
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Victor’s Adventures in Spain 2
Download your Audio
To get your audio, simply click HERE to go to the audio download page.
The next level
Building on the previous success of the first Victor’s Adventures in Spain book, we have now created the next level. Victor 2 will certainly help to take your Spanish to new heights. Designed to contain an ever increasing level of structured Spanish, the book guides you from an intermediate level to a very satisfactory advanced level.
Hack your Spanish
In addition to the gripping story of the many wonderful experiences that Victor has, along with the not so wonderful, we have included practical exercises with each chapter. These exercises are specifically designed with you, the learner, in mind. Simple, jargon free and filled with handy ways to ‘hack’ the more difficult parts of Spanish grammar, each chapter will aid you in moving forward with an ever increasing level of comprehension.
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Victor’s Adventures in France
Over the last year and a half, the team here at LightSpeed Spanish has joined forces with Sabine Sautel to produce Victor’s Adventures in France, a French parallel text book and audio book, filled to the brim with useful exercises. Following on from the tremendous success of Victor’s Adventures in Spain, our language learners now have the chance to take their French to new levels.Victor’s Adventures in France is soon to be released and will be available from all Amazon outlets. We are sure you will love it.
Perfecting the Past in Spanish.
Audio book now available on Amazon!
Are you a student looking to come to grips with the past tense in Spanish? If so, we’re sure that you will be very glad you did. Why? Simply because once you have worked through the straightforward systems, the easy explanations and the practical exercises found here you will be a veritable expert on the past in Spanish.
To get your audio book just click HERE for Amazon.com and HERE for Amazon.co.uk or visit your own Amazon page.
IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED THE AUDIO BOOK:
To download your exercises just click HERE.
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Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive
A few years ago, LightSpeed Spanish created a range of videos on the Spanish subjunctive that was an instant hit because it made this challenging topic easier and much more approachable. Now, Cynthia and Gordon Smith-Durán have taken all of that valuable knowledge and made it into the book Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive.
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Pocket Por and Para
Do you have problems using “por” and “para” in Spanish? Are you unsure which one to choose from when faced with saying ‘for’ in Spanish? If that’s true for you then our book Pocket Por and Para is the ideal tool to help you clear up the mystery once and for all.
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Perfecting the Pronouns. Now available!
- Personal Pronouns -Yo, Tú etc.
- Prepositional Pronouns – Mí, Tí
- Demonstrative Pronouns – Este, ese
- Pronominal verbs – Verbs with SE
- Direct Pronouns – Lo, La
- Indirect pronouns – Le, Les
- Redundant use of the pronoun – Le a
- La La Land – Se lo
- Victim Structure – Se le
- Identifying the SE – How to know what it is
- Lo as a thing – Lo bueno
- When to use Ello
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The Balcony of Terror! Now available on Amazon!
You can start to help your child to learn Spanish by ordering your book from Amazon. Here are the currently available outlets:
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Download your Audio
Just click the link below to be taken to the page from which you can get your ever so important audios files.
What this book promises:
This Spanish learning book has been designed for children who are new to reading and also for adults who like to read to their children. The book comes with an audio which will help you with pronunciation when reading the Spanish words.
It’s also a great idea to have the MP3 playing in the background when your child is within earshot. You will be amazed at how much they take in even when they are pretending to do something else.
The first story in this book is written in English and works to gradually blend your new Spanish vocabulary in a structured and fun way. This should ideally be read by the adult to the child. The second story is written in parallel text, in very simplified Spanish, using a lot of the vocabulary that we have built into the book. Once again, this is for the adult to read with the child. However, children can also read the Spanish story because Spanish is a phonetic language which means that you say it as you see it.
This range of books produced by LightSpeed Spanish has the purpose of introducing your child to some basic Spanish language along with various practical concepts by way of fun stories.
The Road to Morocco: An English Spanish bilingual story book
This is the first in a four-part series of stories written in parallel text about Gordon’s adventures in other countries. This is a fun book designed to entertain you while it really helps to take your Spanish forward. Come and join Gordon on his hilarious yet troublesome four-year stay in rabat, the capital of dusty Morocco. For links and more information, click HERE.
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Getting to Grips with Gustar: A great workbook with everything your need to know about Gustar
Thank you for taking an interest in this book. ¡Esperamos que te guste!
‘Getting to grips with Gustar’ is designed to take you, step by step, through every Gustar tense.
This book will help you to understand the way that you structure sentences with Gustar. What is more, it is designed to take you from the basics right up to the more complex structures.
This book offers you:
- 21 exercises that cover all Gustar tenses
- Clear and concise explanations
- Simple language that everyone understands
- All exercises repeated at the end of the book
Starting at the Present Tense, you are taken through a fascinating journey of building
on your ever growing knowledge, until you find yourself using the Past Subjunctive with ease.
We include Encantar in our explanations and exercises, too!
¡Te va a encantar, seguro!
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Pura Práctica en Español
This is a book designed for the student who wants to really get their Spanish going like a train.
It’s not a grammar workbook, but rather, it’s a workbook crammed with fascinating and varied exercises that will really test your ability in Spanish. Set at Intermediate level and above, it will challenge your knowledge across all areas of Spanish grammar and vocabulary.
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Handling Haber in Spanish
This book is designed to take you from the basic yet vital uses of Haber all the way through to what some might describe as the most complex Spanish sentences you can make. It includes:
- Clear and unambiguous explanations
- Step by step progress through the tenses
- Frequent tests to check your understanding
- Interesting expressions used with Haber
- The Spanish Subjunctive in all of its glory!
We promise you that, once you have completed all of the chapters, your understanding of Haber will find itself exactly where it needs to be! Get your copy from Amazon here: US UK CA ES
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The Road to Mexico Bilingual Story
This is the second in series of hilarious, real-life tales of Gordon’s journeys around the world. It’s written as a Spanish/English bilingual book that will really help you to tune your ear and move your Spanish forward!
As he continues to flounder in the world of manufacturing bras and knickers, we accompany Gordon on his way to Mexico where he falls in love with the language and battles with the ups and downs of this strange culture.
We hope that you have as much fun reading this book as we did creating it for you.
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