| Brief Description: | Here's a highly original and fun way for travelers and students to brush up on a foreign language if they already have at least beginner's-level reading and conversational skill. Each Quick Check book offers 50 fun-to-do five-minute tests, all designed to jog the memory and sharpen knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and the country's culture. Tests include fill-ins, word matchings, crossword puzzles, and true-or-false quizzes. Answers to all tests are provided at the back of each book. Scattered informally among the quizzes are tips and hints--helpful and interesting pointers on language use, cultural information, idioms, and related facts that will enrich each reader's knowledge and language skill. Finally, a glossary supplies English translations of all of the newly introduced vocabulary. Quick Check language books are great take-alongs for international vacations or business trips. They also make entertaining and useful supplementary teaching tools for language classroom use. Barron's Quick Check books are available in French, Italian, and Spanish. |
