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Hear it. Read it. LEARN IT! The secret to learning Spanish (or any language) fast is to get lots of comprehensible and challenging input over a short period of time. But finding text/audio with just the right amount of new words is often difficult. Assuming you do find such a text/audio, you will still spend a substantial amount of time wading through words and constructs you already know, looking up words you don't, rewinding audio tapes, and finding your place again. With Fusion bilingual eBooks, you can read and listen to difficult material with many new words and sentence structures without getting bogged down. Since the material is authentic text, it will hold your interest and you will stay engaged with the story.
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Fusion Reader is resizable: you would normally maximize its size and see much more text.
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Fusion bilingual eBooks (dual language eBooks) can be used in a variety of ways, but for most individuals the most effective is the Guess-Confirm-Reinforce method: - Guess: Listen to and read the highlighted selection in Spanish.
- Confirm: If you are unsure of anything in the sentence, glance over to the parallel text.
- Reinforce: If you misunderstood more than one word in your first pass (the guess), read and listen to the text again in Spanish.
- Click next (or tap the down-arrow) and repeat.
Fusion Reader synthesizes the audio using the SAPI TTS voices you already have on your system. If you haven't recently acquired a quality TTS voice see the offerings at NextUp, Cepstral and SodelsCot.
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Currently featuring: 5 English-Spanish eBooks.
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Don Quijote de la Mancha - Primera Parte / Don Quixote of la Mancha - First Part
Original Spanish:
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
1547-1616
English Translation:
John Ormsby,
1829-1895
Published in 1605, "Don Quixote" still stands in the opinion of many as being the greatest novel ever written. In it are described the adventures of a sharp witted, courageous, and delusional man who fancies himself to be a knight. Cervantes draws on his literary knowledge, familiarity with rural Spain, and military experience to craft a story in which romantic idealism and base reality are brought together with a comedic tone.
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Doña Perfecta
Original Spanish:
Benito Pérez Galdós,
1843-1920
English Translation:
Mary J. Serrano,
?-1923
Written in Spain in 1876, and set in the same place at about the same time, "Dona Perfecta" examines the conflict between conservatives and liberals that permeated Spain from 1830 to 1981. In the story, Pepe, an educated and liberal professional goes to a small conservative town where love, family, and ideals collide.
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La Guerra de los Mundos / War of the Worlds
Original English:
H. G. Wells,
1866-1946
Spanish Translation:
Julio Vacareza
Published in England in 1898, and set at about the same time, "War of the Worlds" tells the story of a Martian invasion of England. The exciting story and near-contemporary English makes this an excelent eBook for learning English.
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Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn / The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Original English:
Mark Twain,
1835-1910
Published in the USA in 1884 and set about 50 years prior, Adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" describes the travels of a boy (Huck) and an escaped slave (Jim) as they make their way down the Mississippi river in Southeast United States. The attitudes that characterize America today are in large part either nostalgia for or a reaction against the attitudes described in this book. Although the language of the original English text is “rough” compared to the English spoken by most Americans today, the vocabulary is rich with commonly spoken, but not commonly written terms.
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Los Chicos de D.A.B.: El Caso de la Bicicleta Perdida / The Kids From B.A.D.: The Case Of The Missing Bike
Original English:
Allen Morgan,
1946-
This contemporary children's short story, originally written in English, tells the story of four kids who decide to become detectives when a bicycle belonging to one of them gets stolen. The contemporary subject matter makes this an appealing story for young adults, and because the text consists mostly of realistic modern dialog, readers will be learning Spanish words that they can use every day.
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