The Everything Learning Spanish Book,9781580625753

The Everything Learning Spanish Book

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ISBN13: 9781580625753
ISBN10: 1580625754
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-07-01
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

Makes learning Spanish easy for everyone, featuring easy-to-follow vocabulary lists along with complete instructions on written & spoken grammar.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Starting with the Basics
1(12)
Developing Basic Study Skills
2(2)
Making the Most of the Spanish Environment
4(1)
What You Already Know
5(3)
Learning the Common Suffixes
8(5)
Pronunciation I: The Alphabet and Vowels
13(14)
Sounding Native
14(1)
Learning the Alphabet
14(2)
Introducing the Vowels
16(11)
Pronunciation II: Consonants and Accents
27(14)
Introducing the Consonants
28(1)
Pronunciation of Spanish Consonants
28(10)
Introducing Accent Marks
38(3)
Subjects: Who Are You?
41(16)
Determining the Gender
42(2)
An ``S'' for Plural
44(1)
How Articles Can Help
45(4)
From Nouns to Pronouns
49(1)
Tu Versus Usted
50(6)
Conjunctions
56(1)
Verbs: What Do You Do?
57(8)
Working with the Verbs
58(1)
The Verb's Mood
58(1)
The Most Basic Form: Infinitive
59(1)
There Is Nothing Like the Present
60(5)
Who Are You? Introducing Ser
65(8)
Permanent States of Being: Ser
66(1)
Place of Origin
66(3)
Physical Characteristics
69(1)
Occupation
70(2)
Counting on Ser
72(1)
How Are You? Introducing Estar
73(12)
Location and Temporary State: Estar
74(1)
Physical State
74(1)
Mental State
75(1)
Point of Location
76(5)
Estar and the Present Progressive Tense
81(1)
Which Is Which?
82(3)
As Time Goes By: Other Verb Tenses
85(14)
Conjugating Regular Verbs
86(1)
Preterite Tense
86(1)
Imperfect Tense
87(3)
Present Perfect Tense
90(1)
Future Tense
91(1)
Conditional Tense
92(1)
Reviewing What You've Learned
93(2)
Conjugating Ser and Estar
95(4)
The Vocabulary of Time
99(16)
Cardinal Numbers
100(6)
Ordinal Numbers
106(1)
Days of the Week
107(4)
The Months and Seasons
111(1)
Asking and Telling the Time
112(3)
Important Verbs to Know
115(16)
To Have and To Have To: Tener
116(5)
Haber: To Have or To Be?
121(4)
To Finish: Acabar
125(1)
To Go: Ir
126(3)
To Know: Saber Versus Conocer
129(2)
Irregular Verbs I (Present Tense)
131(12)
What's the Explanation?
132(1)
Reviewing What You Already Know
133(1)
Group Irregularities
134(9)
Irregular Verbs II (Present Tense)
143(16)
Spelling Accommodations
144(10)
Adding Accent Marks to Weak Vowels
154(2)
Innate Irregularities
156(3)
In Addition to the Verb: Direct and Indirect Objects
159(12)
Direct Objects
160(5)
Reviewing the Personal A
165(2)
Indirect Objects
167(4)
Family and Friends
171(14)
Reviewing Possessive Constructions
172(1)
Possessive Adjectives
172(2)
Possessive Pronouns
174(2)
Ser and Possession
176(2)
The Family Gathering
178(4)
Diminutives
182(3)
Irregular Verbs: Moving Through Time
185(20)
The Preterite Tense
186(1)
Spelling Accommodations
186(6)
Group Irregularities
192(3)
Innate Irregularities
195(4)
Irregularities in Other Verb Tenses
199(6)
Impersonal Assertions and the Subjunctive
205(16)
Impersonal Assertions
206(1)
Discussing the Weather
206(3)
Imperative Constructions
209(8)
Introducing the Subjunctive
217(4)
What You Like to Do
221(14)
Likes and Dislikes
222(5)
Verbs That Act Like Gustar
227(1)
What Do You Like to Do?
228(4)
Sitting Down at the Computer
232(3)
Any Questions?
235(16)
Interrogatives
236(6)
Subject-Verb Switch and Interrogative Tags
242(1)
Interjections
242(5)
What's Better and What's Best?
247(4)
A Day in the Life
251(16)
One Day in the Life of Celso
252(1)
Introducing Reflexive Verbs
253(8)
Your Home
261(3)
Dining Out
264(3)
Means of Communication
267(14)
In Person
268(1)
At a Social Gathering
268(6)
Communication by Mail
274(4)
Making Phone Calls
278(3)
Appendix A Spanish-to-English Glossary 281(10)
Appendix B English-to-Spanish Glossary 291(12)
Appendix C Spanish Idioms 303(12)
Appendix D Answer Key 315(14)
Index 329

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