Primer Curso de Espaol Author:John Pittaro and Alexander Green This combined reader and grammar contains a simple and well-graded series of lessons designed to meet the needs of the beginner in his first-year course. Experimentation and testing in the classroom, a careful study of representative syllabuses from all sections of the country, and the researches of the Modern Foreign Language Study have played ... more »important parts in shaping this present book.These combined influences have done much to mold the text, which aims to impart a knowledge of reading,understanding, speaking and writing Spanish. Of these four objectives, special emphasis has been laid on two attainments that can be made really useful, and this constitutes the primary doublefold purpose of Primer curso de espaņol: (a) to stimulate reading on the part of the pupil so that he may be put into direct contact with a civilization and language different from his own, and (b) to furnish the student with a fund of basic grammatical principles.« less