AN EASY INTRODUCTION TO
SPANISH CONVERSATION

CONTAINING

ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE A
RAPID PROGRESS IN IT.

PARTICULARLY DESIGNED

FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE LITTLE TIME TO STUDY,

OR ARE THEIR OWN INSTRUCTORS.

By M. VELAZQUEZ DE LA CADENA,

PROFESSOR OF THE SPANISH; EDITOR OF OLLENDORFF’S SPANISH
GRAMMAR, NEW SPANISH READER, ETC. ETC.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 & 551 BROADWAY.
1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
By D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.

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Multum in parvo is the object of this small book; in which thestudent will find all the elements necessary to enable him in a veryshort time to enter into a conversation on the most usual topics.

For this purpose, and in order that he may understand the questionsput, or the answers given to him, should they be expressed in wordsdifferent in tense or number from those contained in the dialogues,and also to afford him the best means to vary them himself, it hasbeen deemed expedient to prefix to the vocabularies a synopsis ofthe Spanish language. The learner is earnestly desired to study itattentively, so as to become perfectly familiar with the conjugation ofthe verbs; a thorough knowledge of which will render his progress easy,sure, and speedy.[Pg 4]

Persons unaccustomed to commit tasks to memory, will do well to beginby learning daily a set number (say five) of nouns, adjectives, orverbs, and as many phrases as they can remember well; repeating alwaysthe English before the Spanish. Such exercise being steadily pursuedfor a month, the student will have acquired an aggregate of more thanfive hundred of the words most frequently used in common intercourse.This plan has been often tried, and its results have constantlyexceeded the most sanguine expectations.

Should the student wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of the Spanish,even without the assistance of a teacher, he may do so by studyingOllendorff’s New Method, by M. Velazquez and T. Simonné, published byD. Appleton & Co., No. 443 Broadway.

This work will also be found very useful for the younger classes oflearners, as an introduction to Ollendorff, or any other Spanishgrammar, as it contains in a few pages, and exhibits in the plainestmanner, the elements necessary to enable them to make a very easy andrapid progress in the study of this language.

New York, June 1st, 1849.[Pg 5]

CONTENTS.