Los Ojos de Carmen: Spanish Easy Reader

This set of little teaching novelles in Spanish are for me, at least, most ideal. I started with the Level I booklets and stopped when the grammar needed the past tenses. I got myself a Spanish Tenses workbook and worked that 3/4 thru.There ARE plateaus and I am willing to suffer thru those. I got back to the little novelles and continued. I am now on Level III. The index words do help, but I also use my dictionary and the 501 verb conjugation book, at times to verify if the past is the 2. or 3. tense. Still a little shakey here. But I see patterns.These little booklets are very well worth your time and money. Don't expect to have it all in super literary quality. Forget being Sherlock and looking for rhyme and reason or perfect sequencing of events. This is for teaching first, reading first and also some fun.I really can not believe how much I learnt!!! using Marcus Santamaria's system first up to Bola de Nieve, and then getting those self-teaching workbooks for prepositions, (I thought there really were only 7.... like the Bear went over, thru, around... Oh was I in for some happy learning surprise) and the Tenses Workbook. I esp love the translations there. The answers are given.

I love this series of books. I'm learning Spanish on my own and these are great to read for practice and even read out loud to practice saying the words. The books are simple but not totally boring for adults. I think the authors were very thoughtful when they put this series together. The series comes with books that get progressively more difficult at the right steps for a learner who wants to read more and more. I'm not good enough to read the newspaper in Spanish, yet, so these books are great and at a good price.

Not the cover pictured, but I suppose it's the same story.

Very poor quality. It was more than “used”. There is literally translations and underlining in every paragraph of the book. It is unusabke.

Good book to practice my Spanish with. This has the English dictionary in the back for help.