Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: This exciting language program grounds you in the fundamentals that will help you work toward fluency in a language spoken by half a billion people around the world. Within each lesson, you?ll work with three learning ?modules,? each of which builds facility in speaking and listening: Grammar: First, you?ll continue to build the core elements of grammar?the ?skeleton? of the language. You?ll work deeply with verbs and verb tenses. You?ll also work in detail with adjectives, adverbs, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and their essential usage. Vocabulary: An ample vocabulary underlies real fluency, and Professor Worden teaches you a broad range of words and expressions, reflecting the most frequent and useful words in the Spanish language. Culture: Here, you?ll learn how Spanish differs from English as a medium of expression, and you?ll explore subjects such as the evolution of the Spanish language as well as learn about the culture through art and literature. Professor Worden makes each lesson fun and engrossing by changing subjects and by relating the language itself to the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. He also offers vital pointers on the most effective ways to study and learn a new language, and how to move forward as quickly as possible. These 30 expertly organized lessons take you across an important and exciting threshold to a more advanced level of communicating. Join a master language teacher in one of life?s great experiences?the never-ending adventure and discovery that speaking a new language brings.