Cervantes Institute presented the "Correct Spanish" book

Photo by: Instituto Cervantes (Marta Fernández Rodero)

The Cervantes Institute, which is officially in charge of promoting teaching and learning Spanish in all around the world, has presented Correct Spanish Book (El libro del español correcto). It will be a helpful guidebook to use the clues and important points to speak and write correct Spanish.

The main objective is to have the right usage of Spanish and dominate the language in a perfect way. In order to do this, the Institute works with Editorial Espasa famous with their encyclopedias both in Spain and published in other languages in Europe and the coordinator of the book is Florentino Paredes García, Spanish Language Professor at Alcala University . The book has an entertaining and simple structure and includes lots of examples which make it easy to undertand for everyone from every culture who wants to learn Spanish language. The book is 568 pages long and is written according to the norms of Real Spanish Academy (las Reales Academias de la lengua Española).

The book provides the information about the common mistakes that some of them have reached the cult level and their easy solutions with explanations. It is also possible to have the guidelines for punctuation, effective recommendations for better writing texts and keynotes to speak better Spanish such as the pronunciation, where the stress should be at the sentences etc.

There are some parts classified into general usage, business language or internet language. For business, you can find the steps how to write a resume in Spanish, how to prepare for job interviews, writing more effective emails and taking notes. The features of each text form are explained in details.

At the same time there is a section which shows the usage of the language in 21^st century. In social media, the differences between the classic way of usage and modifications according to modern times in email, SMS, chat, blog and networking websites have evolved the way of writing. There are no strict rules as it is applied for a corporate letter or formal situation. You can use the street language during texting or updating your status in a website with slight changes since when you have limited characters there is no option to create a new form of language.

The time is changing and nothing stays as it is supposed to be like language. It also takes new forms and expands with new regulations and additions. This book will enlighten everything you want to know about Spanish from bottom to top.