Speakening: English and Spanish for Serious Students is a book that offers students a way to fluency

July 10, 2010 - PRLog -- Staten Island, NY. July 10, 2010 -- author and native New Yorker John DePonte has published Speakening®: English and Spanish for Serious Students, a 78 page book that teaches students of both English and Spanish the sentence structures needed for fluency in these languages in the way that we learn our mother tongue: through conversation. It is a dual language approach that not only makes English and Spanish accessible to speakers of any language, but accelerates the process for English and Spanish speakers via word-for-word translations.

Visitors to http://smashwords.com/books/view/16692 can sample 50% of the ebook, Speakening®: English and Spanish for Serious Students before deciding whether or not to buy it. While the ebook is available right now at Smashwords for $9.99, it will also be available for the same price at all major distributors by the end of summer. The print version will be available for $14.95 at all the major distributors by mid-August.

While there are many books on the market for teaching English and Spanish, John DePonte presents a unique course that takes the student to the level of fluent speaker through the same process we employ in the acquisition of our first language. The student need only practice the Exchanges in the same way an actor practices the lines of a role in a play or movie. The author clearly explains how to do this in three simple steps. The Exchanges include all the sentence structures commonly used in the English language. These structures are then translated into idiomatic Spanish. Word-for-word English translations of the Spanish sentences remove the need to consult a glossary or dictionary, thereby accelerating the learning process.

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About Speakening: Speakening is the registered trademark for the unique approach to language acquisition of teacher author John DePonte. The method offers the language learner a way to gain fluency without the burden of having to learn technical grammatical jargon. Language is acquired the way we learn our mother tongue: through conversation.