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I think the only way to acquire vocabulary is practice, practice and practice. Read stuff with a dictionary handy, this will give you the words that are actually used.
One easy way is to read comics. There are lots of great ones in Spanish, think "Mortadelo & Filemón" and the likes... They definitely use every day words that you are going to need.
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Duolingo is an excellent and free tool to learn Spanish:
http://duolingo.com/
It is also available as a free App for iPhone and iPod touch if you have any of those devices.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/duolingo-learn-spanish-french/id570060128?mt=8
And to your concern, it does help a lot as it involves lot of different types of activities and ...
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May be, but in spite of strong accent differences, Spanish people can understand perfectly accents from any part from Spain or from American countries. A child from Madrid understand without problem the Mexican "Chapulin Colorado" series, as well as any children program from the Andalusian TV "Canal Sur" with a strong "seseo".
The problem exist when the ...
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As pointed out in the comments, this may vary drastically depending on what you expect.
And a brief disclaimer: I don't know much about teaching spanish.it
Nonetheless, here's an attempt at it:
There's a children's book called "Platero y yo". Apparently it was written to teach verb conjugations. It's freely available as part of the Gutenberg project.
Do ...
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I don't think so.
I think a firm grounding in one variety of Spanish is important. I also think that the decision between European vs. Latin American Spanish is important very early on, as the differences are more pronounced and there's more of a dividing line there. But at the end of the day, I think learning the fundamentals and "standard" ...
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