A First Spanish Reader is a beginner's Spanish textbook by Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy, with questions, vocabulary and pen drawings. It offers simple reading selections, mostly in the present tense at first, adapted from Spanish and other sources. It is useful for learners who want structured practice in early Spanish reading.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
A FIRST SPANISH READER WITH QUESTIONS AND VOCABULARY BY ERWIN W. ROESSLER, PH.D. CHAIRMAN OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK, N.Y. AND ALFRED REMY, A.M. HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE, NEW YORK, N.Y. Pen Drawings by CLARENCE ROWS AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO This Reader is the outgrowth of a desire for a textbook that combines simplicity with variety. To make it available for use almost at the very beginning of the Spanish course only the present tense has been employed in the first twenty-three selections and difficult constructions have been consistently avoided.