Authors: Barbara Bregstein
ISBN-13: 9780071463386, ISBN-10: 0071463380
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: Bilingual
Barbara Bregstein is a translator and Spanish instructor with more than thirty years' experience teaching at colleges in and around New York City.
Want a quick and effective way to learn to read and speak Spanish? You've come to the right place!
So what's the trick? Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is based on the idea that the quickest route to learning Spanish is through a solid grounding in grammar basics. Now don't be put off by the "G-word." What you won't find in this book is a lot of pointless drills. Instead, you get an original, step-by-step approach to learning Spanish based on the way people naturally acquire language.
From the very beginning, you are introduced to the most essential structuresallowing you to communicate in Spanish almost immediately. Gradually, through a series of interconnected "steps," you progress in a logical way to more common concepts that govern how Spanish is spoken and written. And along the way you are introduced to hundreds of carefully selected verbs and vocabulary words presented on the basis of how often they are used in everyday Spanish.
Guaranteed to get you quickly up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to communicate in Spanish with confidence, Easy Spanish Step-by-Step features:
Barbara Bregstein is a translator and Spanish instructor with more than thirty years' experience teaching at colleges in and around New York City.
I Elements of a Sentence
1. Nouns, Articles, and Adjective
2. Estar, Ser, and Subject pronouns
3. Hay, Interrogative Words, Days and Months
4. Numbers, Dates, and Time
5. Regular Verbs
6. Irregular Verbs
7. Ir and the Future
8. Adjectives and Adverbs
9. Negatives and Prepositions
II Objects, Reflexive Verbs, and the Present Subjunctive
10. The Indirect Object
11. The Direct Object
12. Reflexive Verbs
13. The Present Subjunctive
III Preterit Tense, Imperfect Tense, and Double Object Pronouns
14. The Preterit Tense
15. The Imperfect Tense Answer Key Index