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My db is getting married to a lovely spanish girl and I'd like to learn a bit of spanish so I can make her feel welcome into the family and also can vaguely communicate with her family at the wedding! Can someone recommend a book/CD course I can use as a beginner??
Thanks

The Michel Thomas tapes are excellent, as you don't have to do any homework - just listen and absorb. My kinda language lesson!

PS I think it is lovely that you are doing this for your DB.

How lovely!

Another vote for Michel Thomas

I managed to make fairly good progress learning dutch with the Hugo method.

Spanish one here

Rather than just teaching you phrases, it started teaching you the sounds by giving examples of words that use those sounds. Then they started joining up the words. So, if you can say "the garden in beautiful" you can figure out how to say "the x is y" IYSWIM.

It then built on that adding more stuff in with each chapter.

It came with a tape, but DH is a native dutch speaker and said it was even posher than the queen and I wasn't allowed to use it.

I presume that it follows the same method for all the languages.

Good luck, and what a nice welcoming thing to do.