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Rating: - Use it for every class
I have used this workbook for two years to teach English to my adult neighbors here in Panama. The book uses modern life concepts to teach relevant business and daily life English. It is easy to use and does not get bogged down in arcane grammarian discussions. We have plenty of material to discuss after each dialog and we use the exercises as practice and for review. It suits us well. I will continue to use it for any student that has a smattering of English and little language structure.

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Rating: - ingles hecho facil
This book is great if you are teaching english to non-speakers, the pronounciation is there, the translation, easy words, all the basics for starters. Pronouns, verbs, adverbs all easy grammatical sentences with explanations for the use and most of the rules for changing the endings for plurals, explains the masculine and femine use of words as well. I teach adults the english language and have bought this book to help me help them and as it turns out the students have liked it so much I have had to keep reordering for them to have one of their own.

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Rating: - It's the best there is! (El mejor!)
In my opinion this is the best book available for Hispanics who want to learn English. I myself speak both English and Spanish and have taught English to Hispanics for 5-1/2 years. I am also a professional librarian. I have looked through large library ESL and Spanish/English language collections and have spent many hours at big-name bookstores looking for materials for my students. Nothing I saw is comparable to Inglés Hecho Fácil.

Naturally it's hard for me to say how helpful this book might be for a tutor who doesn't know Spanish, but I think it would be worthwhile trying to use it, if all your students are Spanish-speakers. It's in an entirely different class from all the other Spanish/English instructional materials I've ever seen. In fact, as far as I can tell, it's the only real Spanish/English text available in the US. (If you know of another, I'd love to hear about it!)

I understand the difficulty of the reviewer who criticized the indexing, and I grant that it's not easy to pick things out at a glance, but in fact, the Table of Contents does give a pretty thorough view of what is being presented. You just have to comb through it. For myself, after going through the book for so many years, I appreciate more and more the skill with which the material is developed. I also want to add that I agree with all of the positive points enumerated by an earlier reviewer, H.Zheng.

Qué lo aprovechen bien, amigos!

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Rating: - easy to follow and practical
I got this for a Hispanic friend who now lives in the U.S. but speaks very little English. I was looking for a book which was easy to follow and especially designed for native Spanish speakers. After comparing all the similar books, I selected this one because of the following:

- it has explanations in spanish, and useful phrases and vocabulary in both English and Spanish side-by-side, perfect for those who don't know very little English

- it has a very good coverage of grammar, phrases, and vocabularyit's not just a phrasebook. It also covers the grammar, just in a more learn-as-you-go way.

- unlike some books which assumes you will be a tourist and teaches you just the "survival phrases", it covers more everyday vocabulary and phrases that you can really use

- the layout of each page is simple and not cluttered, making it easy to follow and not intimidating

- it starts out by comparing the English words that are very similar to Spanish, giving the reader confidence to go on and learn more

- the phrases and new words are given in small portions, so that it's not very over whelming to the reader

- Spanish translation of the English phrases are side-by-side