Spanish Workbook For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119910251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 368 str.

Gail Stein

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with the Basics 5Chapter 1: Getting a Jump Start in Spanish 7Chapter 2: Selecting the Proper Part of Speech 33Part 2: The Here and Now 49Chapter 3: Sorting Out Word Gender 51Chapter 4: Coloring Your Sentences with Adjectives 73Chapter 5: Expressing Yourself in the Present 91Chapter 6: Expressing Yourself with Subjunctive Feeling 121Chapter 7: Enriching Your Sentences with Adverbs and Comparisons 149Part 3: Giving and Obtaining Information 163Chapter 8: Getting Answers with the Right Questions 165Chapter 9: Being Clear and Concise with Object Pronouns 185Chapter 10: Reflecting on Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs 205Chapter 11: Getting Attention with Commands 217Chapter 12: Preparing to Connect with Prepositions 239Part 4: Reminiscing about the Past and Seeing into the Future 253Chapter 13: Leaving It Completely in the Past 255Chapter 14: Looking Back with the Imperfect 269Chapter 15: Seeing into the Future 283Part 5: The Part of Tens 293Chapter 16: Ten Most Common Mistakes in Spanish 295Chapter 17: Ten Important Verb Distinctions 301Part 6: Appendixes 307Appendix A: Verb Charts 309Appendix B: Thematic Vocabulary 319Appendix C: English-Spanish Dictionary 331Appendix D: Spanish-English Dictionary 335Index 341

O autorze

Gail Stein is a retired foreign language instructor who taught in New York City public junior and senior high schools for more than 30 years. She is the author of several Dummies books, including Spanish Essentials For Dummies and Intermediate Spanish For Dummies.