Spanish All-In-One For Dummies

Gail Stein, MA, is a foreign language instructor who has more than 30 years’ experience teaching in New York City public junior and senior high schools. She’s the author of Spanish Essentials For Dummies and Spanish Workbook For Dummies. Cecie Kraynak, MA, has more than 30 years’ experience teaching Spanish. She has authored several Spanish titles in the For Dummies series.

• Introduction 1Book 1: Getting Started with Spanish 5Chapter 1: Sounding Like a Native Speaker 7Chapter 2: Talking Numbers, Time, and the Weather 19Chapter 3: Updating Your Personal Profile 35Chapter 4: Satisfying Your Appetite 59Chapter 5: Shopping Until You Drop. 79Chapter 6: Going Places: Planes, Trains, Taxis, & More 95Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 111Book 2: Grasping Basic Grammar 125Chapter 1: Flipping Through the Dictionary 127Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues 139Chapter 3: Navigating Pronouns 155Chapter 4: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs 177Chapter 5: Reflecting on Reflexive Verbs 195Chapter 6: Using the Present Progressive 203Chapter 7: Spicing It Up with Adjectives and Adverbs 211Chapter 8: Asking Questions: Being Positive and Negative 227Book 3: Mastering More Advanced Grammar 241Chapter 1: Understanding Prepositions and Conjunctions 243Chapter 2: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense 259Chapter 3: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense 271Chapter 4: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 279Chapter 5: Being Bossy with the Imperative Mood 299Chapter 6: Preparing for the Future and the Conditional 313Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses 321Chapter 8: Being Passive 333Book 4: Spanish at Work 337Chapter 1: Spanish for Domestic Workers. 339Chapter 2: Spanish for Caregivers 359Chapter 3: Spanish for Healthcare Workers 375Chapter 4: Spanish for Gardeners and Landscapers 401Chapter 5: Spanish for Law Enforcement Pros 413Chapter 6: Spanish for Educators and Administrators 427Chapter 7: Spanish for Office Managers 443Chapter 8: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Personnel 459Book 5: Appendixes 475Appendix A: Spanish Verbs 477Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary 489Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary 507Appendix D: Spanish Words That Change from Country to Country 527Index 535