Easy to understand, easy to use, Dicho y hecho is a carefully crafted and sequenced, classroom-tested Beginning Spanish program that has been enthusiastically praised by over 100,000 students and instructors for its straightforward, easy-to-implement, lively, and highly successful approach. Since publication of its First Edition in 1981, users and non-users of Dicho y hecho have guided and participated actively in the development of subsequent editions. The results speak for themselves: Dicho y hecho has remained a carefully constructed program that changes from edition to edition, but never deviates from its core objective: to be the easiest to understand, easiest to use, and easiest to adapt Beginning Spanish program available. This text is offered in a two volumes. Volume I includes chapters 1 - 7 and Volume 2 includes Chapters 8 - 14. The photos throughout the text are unavailable in this version.