The Complete Idiot's Guide to Intermediate Spanish

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Overview

Improve your Spanish.

This revised edition offers expanded coverage of grammar and vocabulary, as well as idiomatic usage, irregular verbs, and conversational elements that will help readers improve their language skills in a variety of situations. In addition, a new workbook section specially designed to help readers practice and retain information has been included.
—Includes a comprehensive review of beginning Spanish, plus simple strategies for memorizing cases, endings, and vocabulary
—Features an easy-to-understand guide to Spanish idioms
—Covers business and medical Spanish
—Techniques for mastering vocabulary and grammar
—New exercises and answers throughout

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592575831
  • Publisher: Alpha Books
  • Publication date: 6/5/2007
  • Series: Complete Idiot's Guide Series
  • Edition description: Bilingual
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 7.36 (w) x 9.08 (h) x 0.89 (d)

Meet the Author

Steven Hawson holds an M.A. in Spanish translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and a certificate in medical interpretation from Stanford University Hospital. He is currently a senior language specialist for a leading interpretation company and the owner of TeleContacto.net, an over-the-phone Spanish communication company.

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Table of Contents

Part 1 So You Want To Learn Intermediate Spanish: iQue Bueno! 1
1 Knowing Spanish: It's a Good Thing 3
Why Spanish? 3
Are You Really Intermediate? Probably 5
2 A Closer Look 9
Spanish vs. English 9
Spanish: An International Language 12
What About Culture? 15
3 ABCs, etc. 17
The Sounds of Spanish 17
What They Didn't Tell You About Spanish Pronunciation When You Were a Beginner 23
Punctuation 26
Capitalization 26
4 Accentuating the Positive 29
Esteban's "No Stress" Method to Spanish Accentuation 29
5 Caminos Hacia el Espanol (Roads to Spanish) 39
Gathering Your Tools 39
Practice Makes Perfect 42
Part 2 Getting to Know the Spanish-Speaking World 49
6 Espana: Where It All Began 51
Lectura: La Geografia de Espana 52
Vista Panoramica de Espana 54
Gramatica: Los Sustantivos (Nouns) 55
Risa del Dia 61
El Cuiz 62
7 Mexico: Pyramids, Politics, and Playas 65
Lectura: Lazaro Cardenas 66
Vista Panoramica de Mexico 68
Gramatica: The Spanish Verb 69
Risa del Dia 78
El Cuiz 78
8 El Cono Sur: South America's Southern Cone 81
Lectura: El Festival Nacional de la Tonada 83
Vista Panoramica del Cono Sur 85
Gramatica: Los Adjetivos 86
Risa del Dia 94
El Cuiz 95
9 Los Paises Andinos: The Land of the Incas 97
Lectura: Machu Picchu 98
Vista Panoramica de los Paises Andinos 102
Gramatica: Ser vs. Estar 103
Risa del Dia 109
El Cuiz 110
10 Los Paises del Caribe 113
Come to the Islands 113
Lectura: La Republica Dominicana 114
Vista Panoramica de los Paises Caribenos 117
Gramatica: Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns 118
Risa del Dia 125
El Cuiz 126
11 Centroamerica 129
Los Paises de Centroamerica 130
Lectura: Reunion Militar 131
Vista Panoramica de Centroamerica 133
Gramatica: The Other Tenses 134
Risa del Dia 140
El Cuiz 141
12 Los Estados Unidos de America 143
Esteban's History Lesson (Abridged) 143
Lectura: Estudios de Discriminacion 145
Vista Panoramica de los EE.UU. 147
Gramatica: The Spanish Subjunctive 148
Risa del Dia 155
El Cuiz 156
Part 3 La Vida Cotidiana (Everyday Life) 159
13 La Familia Latina 161
Lectura: La Unidad Familiar Hispanica 161
Gramatica: Para vs. Por 165
Palabras Para Ti 166
Dialogo: Mario y Juanita 167
Risa del Dia 168
El Cuiz 169
14 Nuevos Amigos 171
Lectura: Un Joven Espanol Busca Amigos 172
Gramatica: Usted vs. Tu 175
Dialogo: Nuevos Amigos 178
Risa del Dia 181
El Cuiz 182
15 La Gastronomia y el Buen Comer 185
Lectura: Receta para Tamalitos Mexicanos 185
Gramatica: Las Preposiciones 190
Dialogo en el Restaurante "La Fonda" 191
Risa del Dia 194
El Cuiz 194
16 La lglesia y la Religion 197
Catholicism and Latin American Culture 197
Lectura: La Virgen de Guadalupe 198
Gramatica: The Present Progressive Tense 202
Palabras Para Ti 205
Risa del Dia 206
El Cuiz 207
17 Las Fiestas 209
What If I Don't Like Bulls? 209
Lectura: Las Fiestas de Madrid 210
Gramatica: More About Haber 213
The Holidays 215
Risa del Dia 216
El Cuiz 217
Part 4 Arts and Leisure 219
18 Don Quixote de la Mancha 221
The Man from La Mancha 221
Lectura: Don Quixote: Capitulo Uno 222
Gramatica: The Past Subjunctive 227
Dialogo: Los Molinos 229
Risa del Dia 231
El Cuiz 232
19 El Museo del Prado 235
El Prado 235
Lectura: Ficha Practica del Museo del Prado 236
Gramatica: More About Numbers 240
Risa del Dia 243
El Cuiz 244
20 La Musica Latina 247
The Sound of Many Cultures 247
Lectura: Salsa y Cumbia 248
Gramatica: Prefixes 250
Cielito Lindo 252
Risa del Dia 254
El Cuiz 255
21 El Futbol 257
El Juego Nacional 257
Lectura: La Copa de Oro 258
Gramatica: Suffixes, Part One 262
Risa del Dia 264
El Cuiz 265
22 Artesanias Mexicanas 267
Las Artesanias Mexicanas 267
Lectura: Como Hacer una Pinata 268
Gramatica: Suffixes, Part Two 271
Risa del Dia 276
El Cuiz 277
23 Los Viajes 279
Dialogo I: En el Aeropuerto Internacional de San Jose, Costa Rica 279
Gramatica: Interrogatives 281
Dialogo II: El Planetario de Madrid 283
Risa del Dia 285
El Cuiz 285
Part 5 Money, Science, Politics, and Transportation 287
24 El Comercio 289
El Comercio 289
Lectura: Correspondencia Mercantil 290
Gramatica: Polite Phrases and Expressions 294
Dialogo: En El Banco Bantico S.A. 298
Idiot's Guide to Idioms 300
Risa del Dia 301
El Cuiz 302
25 La Tecnologia 305
La Tecnologia y el Mundo Latino 305
Lectura: Que Hace el Modem? 306
Gramatica: Possessives--I Got Mine, You Got Yours 309
Idiot's Guide to Idioms 313
Risa del Dia 314
El Cuiz 315
26 La Politica 317
Pero Las Cosas Han Mejorado 317
Lectura: La Constitucion de la Republica de Cuba 318
Gramatica: Sorting Out Those Homonyms 324
Idiot's Guide to Idioms 326
Risa del Dia 327
El Cuiz 328
27 La Medicina 331
Lectura: Complicaciones Neuro-vasculares Perifericas en el Diabetico 332
Gramatica: Reviewing Reflexive Verbs 335
Dialogo: No Me Siento Bien 338
Idiot's Guide to Idioms 340
Risa del Dia 341
El Cuiz 342
28 Transportacion e Infraestructura 345
Lectura: Los Medios de Transporte e Infraestructura de Venezuela 346
Analisis del Texto 348
Gramatica: Esteban's Final Advice About Cognates 350
Idiot's Guide to Idioms 355
Risa del Dia 355
El Cuiz 357
Appendixes
A Basic Grammar Resource 361
B Other Books 371
Index 373
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