Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

A comprehensive guide to conversational Spanish Looking for a step-by-step roadmap to Spanish that's easy and fun to read? Spanish All-In-One For Dummies is packed with all the Spanish rules, conventions, structures, vocabulary, and grammar you need to start having useful, real-world conversations today. This is the complete resource to speak, understand, and write Spanish in everyday settings. **4 Books Inside...

• Getting Started with Spanish
• Grasping Basic Grammar
• Mastering More Advanced Grammar
• Spanish at Work**

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Book 1: Getting Started with Spanish 5

Chapter 1: Sounding Like a Native Speaker 7

Chapter 2: Talking Numbers, Time, and the Weather 19

Chapter 3: Updating Your Personal Profile 35

Chapter 4: Satisfying Your Appetite 59

Chapter 5: Shopping Until You Drop. 79

Chapter 6: Going Places: Planes, Trains, Taxis, & More 95

Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 111

Book 2: Grasping Basic Grammar 125

Chapter 1: Flipping Through the Dictionary 127

Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues 139

Chapter 3: Navigating Pronouns 155

Chapter 4: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs 177

Chapter 5: Reflecting on Reflexive Verbs 195

Chapter 6: Using the Present Progressive 203

Chapter 7: Spicing It Up with Adjectives and Adverbs 211

Chapter 8: Asking Questions: Being Positive and Negative 227

Book 3: Mastering More Advanced Grammar 241

Chapter 1: Understanding Prepositions and Conjunctions 243

Chapter 2: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense 259

Chapter 3: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense 271

Chapter 4: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 279

Chapter 5: Being Bossy with the Imperative Mood 299

Chapter 6: Preparing for the Future and the Conditional 313

Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses 321

Chapter 8: Being Passive 333

Book 4: Spanish at Work 337

Chapter 1: Spanish for Domestic Workers. 339

Chapter 2: Spanish for Caregivers 359

Chapter 3: Spanish for Healthcare Workers 375

Chapter 4: Spanish for Gardeners and Landscapers 401

Chapter 5: Spanish for Law Enforcement Pros 413

Chapter 6: Spanish for Educators and Administrators 427

Chapter 7: Spanish for Office Managers 443

Chapter 8: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Personnel 459

Book 5: Appendixes 475

Appendix A: Spanish Verbs 477

Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary 489

Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary 507

Appendix D: Spanish Words That Change from Country to Country 527

Index 535