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| Preface | |
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| Guide to Pronunciation | |
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| The Alphabet | |
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| Greetings and Salutations | |
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| Elements of a Sentence | |
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| Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives | |
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| The Gender of Nouns and the Definite Article | |
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| Singular Nouns | |
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| Plural Nouns | |
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| The Indefinite Article | |
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| Singular Indefinite Articles | |
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| Plural Indefinite Articles | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Singular Form of Adjectives | |
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| Plural Form of Adjectives | |
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| Estar, Ser, and Subject Pronouns | |
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| Subject Pronouns | |
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| Estar (to be) | |
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| Ser (to be) | |
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| Reading Comprehension La casa | |
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| Hay, Interrogative Words, Days, and Months | |
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| Hay | |
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| Interrogative Words | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Days of the Week, Months, and Seasons | |
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| Reading Comprehension Un pueblo colonial | |
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| Reading Comprehension El cine | |
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| Numbers, Dates, and Time | |
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| Cardinal Numbers | |
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| Ordinal Numbers | |
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| The Date | |
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| Telling Time | |
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| Reading Comprehension El restaurante | |
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| Reading Comprehension El oficio de la casa | |
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| Regular Verbs | |
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| Uses of the Present Tense | |
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| -Ar Verbs | |
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| -Er Verbs | |
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| -Ir Verbs | |
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| -Ar and -er Verbs with More than One Meaning | |
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| Reading Comprehension Una escuela en Mexico | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| -Ar Verbs | |
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| -Er Verbs | |
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| -Ir Verbs | |
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| Reading Comprehension El tren | |
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| Ir and the Future | |
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| Ir (to go) | |
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| The Future with the Verb ir | |
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| Idioms | |
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| Idioms with the Verb tener | |
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| Other Idioms | |
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| Useful Words: que and para | |
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| The Relative Pronoun que | |
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| The Conjunction que | |
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| The Preposition para | |
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| Key Vocabulary | |
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| Las partes del cuerpo (Parts of the Body) | |
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| La familia | |
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| Time Expressions with hacer | |
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| Reading Comprehension La cita | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Possessive Adjectives | |
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| Demonstrative Adjectives | |
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| Neuter Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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| Adjectives of Nationality | |
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| Adjectives That Precede a Noun | |
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| Comparative Adjectives | |
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| Superlative Adjectives | |
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| Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives | |
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| Comparing Nouns | |
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| Comparing Verbs | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Adverbs That Do Not Take the Suffix -mente | |
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| Reading Comprehension La fiesta | |
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| Negatives and Prepositions | |
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| Negatives | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Prepositions Followed by Verbs or Nouns | |
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| Prepositions Followed by Nouns or Pronouns | |
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| Pronouns That Follow Prepositions | |
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| The Preposition por | |
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| Por and para Compared | |
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| Reading Comprehension El circo | |
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| Key Vocabulary | |
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| Nature | |
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| Weather | |
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| Reading Comprehension El trabajo | |
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| Objects, Reflexive Verbs, and the Present Subjunctive | |
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| The Indirect Object | |
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| Gustar and the Indirect Object | |
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| Me gusta and me gustan | |
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| Te gusta and te gustan | |
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| Le gusta and le gustan | |
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| Nos gusta and nos gustan | |
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| Les gusta and les gustan | |
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| Verbs Like gustar | |
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| The Indirect Object Pronoun | |
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| Position of the Indirect Object Pronoun | |
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| Reading Comprehension Ir de compras | |
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| Reading Comprehension El viaje | |
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| The Direct Object | |
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| The Personal a and the Direct Object | |
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| Transitive Verbs | |
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| The Direct Object Pronoun | |
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| Position of the Direct Object Pronoun | |
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| The Direct Object Pronoun as a Person | |
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| The Direct Object Pronoun as a Thing | |
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| Reading Comprehension La bienvenida | |
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| Reflexive Verbs | |
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| The Reflexive Pronouns | |
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| Some Frequently Used Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Reflexive Verbs Whose English Translations Do Not Necessarily Include Oneself | |
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| Position of the Reflexive Pronoun | |
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| Reflexive Verbs with Parts of the Body and Clothing | |
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| Reflexive Verbs That Express Emotion | |
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| Reflexive Verbs That Express Movement | |
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| Reflexive Verbs That Express "To Become" | |
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| Most Frequently Used Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Reflexive Verbs with Reciprocal Meanings | |
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| Se and Impersonal Expressions | |
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| Reading Comprehension El encuentro | |
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| The Present Subjunctive | |
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| Formation of the Present Subjunctive | |
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| -Ar Verbs | |
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| -Er and -ir Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Verbs with Orthographic Changes | |
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| Uses of the Present Subjunctive | |
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| After Certain Impersonal Expressions | |
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| After Certain Verbs | |
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| After Certain Conjunctions | |
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| After cuando | |
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| In Certain Dependent Adjective Clauses | |
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| After the Expressions por mas que and por mucho que | |
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| After ojala | |
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| After acaso, quizas, and tal vez | |
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| After aunque | |
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| After Compounds of -quiera | |
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| After como | |
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| Reading Comprehension La despedida | |
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| Preterit Tense, Imperfect Tense, and Double Object Pronouns | |
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| The Preterit Tense | |
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| Formation of the Preterit | |
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| Regular -ar Verbs | |
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| Regular -er and -ir Verbs | |
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| Uses of the Preterit | |
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| To Express an Action Completed in the Past | |
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| To Express a Series of Completed Actions in the Past | |
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| To Express a Condition That Is No Longer in Effect | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| -Ir Verbs with Stem Changes in the Third Person | |
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| Verbs with Orthographic Changes | |
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| -Ar Verbs | |
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| -Er and -ir Verbs | |
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| Verbs with Special Meanings in the Preterit | |
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| Reading Comprehension En la corte (primera escena) | |
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| The Imperfect Tense | |
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| Formation of the Imperfect | |
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| Regular -ar Verbs | |
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| Regular -er and -ir Verbs | |
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| Irregular Verbs | |
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| Uses of the Imperfect | |
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| To "Set the Stage" in the Past; to Express a Narration, Situation, or Background | |
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| To Express Habitual, Customary, or Repeated Actions in the Past | |
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| To Express Continuous Actions in the Past | |
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| To Express a Description in the Past | |
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| To Express Point of Origin in the Past | |
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| To Express Time in the Past | |
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| To Express One's Age in the Past | |
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| Preterit and Imperfect Compared | |
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| Querer, poder, saber | |
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| Double Object Pronouns | |
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| Indirect Object Pronoun with Direct Object Pronoun | |
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| Reflexive Pronoun with Direct Object Pronoun | |
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| Se Plus the Indirect Object Pronoun and Unplanned Occurrences | |
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| Reading Comprehension El juicio (segunda escena) | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Index | |