Alejandro D. Ainslie
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 54
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Excerpt from Business Spanish: And Commercial Vocabulary This book is intended for those who desire to obtain without a teacher a foundation for the Spanish language, an end easily reached by carefully following the preliminary instructions given in it. The lessons herein contained cover the necessary range of subjects more frequently touched in life, and shall enable the students to acquire soon a conversable knowledge. I have purposely omitted everything tending to show the pronunciation of Spanish, with a combination of English sounds. It is positively impossible to represent the sounds of Spanish in any other language, without seriously misleading the student. Spanish, being essentially phonetic, is pronounced as it is written, and written as it is pronounced. Vowels have always the same sound; there is only one silent letter. By mastering the sound of vowels it will be easy to read and speak all there is in the book. Few rules are found in it. The fewer rules for beginners the better. And I have endeavored to present, not only the fewer rules, but almost no rules at all. Careful and frequent study of the Spanish Alphabet, as it is explained in the following page, will enable you to read the contents and learn them thoroughly. The principal tenses of the verbs are given in every lesson - a practical combination which surely will bring forward its advantages. The importance of Spanish for business men of America can not be disputed. Contrary to Europe where more than twenty languages are spoken, in this continent there are only two - Spanish and English. Since transactions grow daily, and bind more and more the business people of America, it is plain that these two languages should be spoken by all. The Author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.