Correct Your Spanish Blunders » (Bilingual)

Jean Yates teaches Spanish at George Washington University. She has also taught Spanish as a second language on the high school and community college levels and to adults in the workplace. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Speak and write Spanish as if it were your native tongue!

Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? It happens—but before you get used to speaking Spanglish, consult this guide and break those bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your Spanish Blunders not only tells you what you've done wrong with more than 1,000 of your typical learner errors, clearly highlighted in red, it also explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.

With the aim of improving your Spanish skills, this fun but comprehensive guide will help you avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:

• Mispronunciation and misspelling
• Applying English grammar patterns to Spanish
• Putting verbs in the wrong tense
• Using incorrect prepositions in expressions
• Forgetting agreements in gender and number
• Hanging out with falsos amigos (false cognates)

Correct Your Spanish Blunders contains exercises covering all parts of grammar and wraps it all up with review passages to check that you are blunder-free. Soon, biting your nails will be your only bad habit!

Jean Yates teaches Spanish at George Washington University. She has also taught Spanish as a second language on the high school and community college levels and to adults in the workplace. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Introduction PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING Pronunciation Spelling Capitalization Punctuation GRAMMAR Nouns Numbers Noun determiners Descriptive Adjectives Verbs The Infinitive Types of Verbs The Indicative Mood The Present Tense The Preterite Perfect Tense The Preterite Tense The Imperfect Tense The Pluperfect Tense The Future Tense The Future Perfect Tense The Conditional The Simple Conditional The Conditional Perfect The Subjunctive Mood The Present Subjunctive The Preterite Perfect Subjunctive The Imperfect Subjunctive The Pluperfect Subjunctive Reported Speech Subjects, Objects, and Their Pronouns Adverbs and Prepositions with Adverbial Functions Other Prepositions Conjunctions VOCABULARY Words Constructions CATCH THE BLUNDERS ANSWER KEYS INDEX OF SPANISH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS SUBJECT INDEX