Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7
Chapter 1: Warming Up with the Bare Basics 9
Chapter 2: Uno, Dos, Tres: Numbers, Colors, Dates, and Time 23
Chapter 3: Greetings, Salutations, and Farewells 39
Chapter 4: Engaging in a Little Chitchat 53
Chapter 5: Speaking of Food 69
Chapter 6: Going Shopping 89
Chapter 7: Conversing Over the Phone 109
Chapter 8: Asking Directions 121
Chapter 9: Dealing with Emergencies 133
Book II: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials 149
Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Parts of Speech 151
Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues 165
Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs 181
Chapter 4: ¿Qué? Asking Questions 201
Chapter 5: What’s Happening: Present Participles and the Present Progressive Tense 213
Chapter 6: Two More Simple Tenses: Future and Conditional 221
Chapter 7: Spicing Up Your Talk with Adjectives and Adverbs 231
Chapter 8: Defining Relationships with Prepositions 247
Book III: Mastering More Advanced Grammar Essentials 257
Chapter 1: Getting Bossy with the Imperative Mood 259
Chapter 2: Getting Object Pronouns Involved 271
Chapter 3: Involving Yourself in the Action with the Reflexive 281
Chapter 4: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense 289
Chapter 5: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense 301
Chapter 6: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 307
Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses 323
Book IV: Spanish at Work 337
Chapter 1: Spanish for Healthcare Workers 339
Chapter 2: Spanish for Law Enforcement Professionals 367
Chapter 3: Spanish for Educators and Administrators 383
Chapter 4: Spanish for Banking and Financing 401
Chapter 5: Spanish in the Office 417
Chapter 6: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Managers 437
Chapter 7: Spanish for Builders, Mechanics, and Factory Workers 459
Chapter 8: Spanish for Real Estate Professionals 471
Chapter 9: Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping 491
Book V: Appendixes 503
Appendix A: Spanish Verbs 505
Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary 585
Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary 605
Appendix D: About the CD 627
Index 631
