Spanish All-in-One For Dummies

A value-packed guide to speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish Spanish All-in-One For Dummies is the first Dummies All-in-One title in the foreign language category nearly 800 pages of expert instruction to help people master Spanish basics and beyond. This comprehensive volume features content from all For Dummies Spanish language instruction titles, including Spanish For Dummies, Intermediate Spanish For Dummies, Spanish Verbs For Dummies, and Spanish For Dummies Audio Set. The book's audio CD provides readers with an effective tool to help them start speaking Spanish from day one. Plus, the practical exercises give readers greater confidence in communicating in Spanish, whether traveling or in business.

A value-packed guide to speaking, reading, and writing in SpanishSpanish All-in-One For Dummies is the first Dummies All-in-One title in the foreign language category-nearly 800 pages of expert instruction to help people master Spanish basics and beyond. This comprehensive volume features content from all For Dummies Spanish language instruction titles, including Spanish For Dummies, Intermediate Spanish For Dummies, Spanish Verbs For Dummies, and Spanish For Dummies Audio Set. The book's audio CD provides readers with an effective tool to help them start speaking Spanish from day one. Plus, the practical exercises give readers greater confidence in communicating in Spanish, whether traveling or in business.

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