The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary: 30,000 Words Through Cognates, Roots, and Suffixes

A new, and dramaticallyimproved, three-prongedapproach to learning Spanishvocabulary

The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabularyis much, much more than a Spanish vocabularyreference! This unique and completeresource combines three complementaryapproaches to vocabulary building--cognates, root families, and suffixes--toinstantly increase word familiarity and aidmemorization.

Whether for active face-to-face communicationor passive comprehension of written orspoken words, an in-depth knowledge ofvocabulary is the key to foreign languagemastery. The Big Red Book of SpanishVocabulary makes acquiring this masterysimpler and more straightforward than everbefore by providing:

• An extensive thematic list of Spanishcognates and an alphabetic glossary ofSpanish root families--both with morethan 14,000 entries
• A comprehensive listing of the 130 mostcommon Spanish suffixes, with 4,000common examples
• A frequency index listing the 5,000 mostfrequently used words in Spanish
• An alphabetic index cross-referencingevery entry in the root, suffix, andfrequency sections

Scott Thomas and Gaby Thomas are veteran translators, interpreters, and teachers. Rose Nash, Ph.D., is a professor emerita of Linguistics. Dorothy Richmond is a successful author of Spanish-language books.