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

The Experts at Dummies are smart, friendly people who make learning easy by taking a not-so-serious approach to serious stuff.

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

The Experts at Dummies are smart, friendly people who make learning easy by taking a not-so-serious approach to serious stuff.

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