This back-to-basics guide--along with its sister volume, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Leaning Spanish on Your Own--offers a quick and effective method for learning grammar and pronunciation that gets results fast.

Gone are the days of rote memorization and endless drills.

The exercises are designed to be both practical and fun.

Included are tidbits of cultural information and annotated tickets and business documents that will help travelers and others cope in a foreign language.