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| Introduction | |
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| What's Special about Spanish | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Why We Wrote This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Spanish in Action | |
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| Spanish on the Go | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| You Already Know a Little Spanish | |
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| You Already Know Some Spanish! | |
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| Beware of false friends | |
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| Recognize some crossover influence | |
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| Reciting Your ABCs | |
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| Consonants | |
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| Vowels | |
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| The diphthongs | |
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| Pronunciation and Stress | |
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| Looking for stress, normally | |
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| Looking for accented vowels | |
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| Understanding accents on diphthongs | |
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| Punctuation Plus! | |
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| Some Basic Phrases to Know | |
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| The Nitty Gritty: Basic Spanish Grammar | |
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| Simple Sentence Construction | |
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| Forming Questions | |
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| Introducing Regular and Irregular Verbs | |
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| Regular verbs | |
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| Irregular verbs | |
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| El or Ella? Pronouns in Hiding | |
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| That Whole Gender Thing | |
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| Lots about articles | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Numbers: When Everything Counts | |
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| It's You, You Know: The Tu/Usted Issue | |
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| Spanish in Action | |
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| Buenos Dias! Hello! Greetings and Introductions | |
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| Greetings: Formal or Friendly | |
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| Using Names and Surnames | |
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| What's in a name? | |
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| Introducing the verb llamarse | |
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| Introductions: Solemn and Social | |
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| Introducing yourself formally | |
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| Free to Be the Way You Are | |
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| To be permanent: ser | |
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| Conjugating ser (to Be) | |
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| Adios, pronouns | |
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| A Second "Be" for Your Bonnet | |
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| Speaking about Speaking: Hablar | |
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| Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk | |
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| Using the Key Questions: Seven Ws and an H | |
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| All about accent marks | |
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| Weather or Not, Here You Come | |
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| The Verb Entender: To Understand/to Know About | |
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| People and Families | |
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| Vivir: The Verb to Live | |
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| A Little about Diminutives | |
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| Dining Out and Going to Market | |
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| Buen Provecho! Enjoy Your Meal! | |
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| Table terms | |
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| Phrases for food and drink | |
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| Three Verbs Used at the Table | |
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| To take and to drink: The verb tomar | |
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| For drinking only: The verb beber | |
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| For eating: The verb comer | |
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| At the Restaurant: Trying Exotic Foods | |
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| About sauces: Hot, cold, and spicy! | |
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| Getting What You Want: The Verb Querer | |
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| Ordering beverages | |
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| Using the Shopping Verb: Comprar | |
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| Using shopping terms | |
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| At the Market | |
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| Buying fruit | |
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| Buying vegetables | |
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| Shopping for fish | |
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| Knowing the measures: Weight and volume | |
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| At the Supermercado | |
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| Numbers to Know | |
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| Shopping Made Easy | |
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| Shopping at the Department Store | |
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| Using the Verb Probar (To Try) | |
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| Creating a colorful you | |
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| Shopping for shirts | |
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| Checking fibers and fabrics | |
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| Wearing and Taking: The Verb Llevar | |
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| Comparisons: Good, Better, Best, and More | |
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| When Superlatives Fail: Exaggerations | |
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| Shopping for Finer Objects | |
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| For the shopping sophisticate | |
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| Shopping in Traditional Markets | |
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| Typical market items: A treasure trove | |
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| Bargaining at a typical market | |
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| Shopping for copper, glass, clay, and wood stuff | |
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| Shopping for embroidered clothes | |
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| Shopping for baskets | |
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| Going Out on the Town | |
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| Timing Is Everything | |
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| Having a Good Time | |
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| Using the Inviting Verb Invitar | |
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| Using the Dancing Verb: Bailar | |
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| Having a Good Time at Shows and Events | |
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| At the cinema | |
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| At the theater | |
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| At art galleries and museums | |
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| At the opera | |
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| Using the Singing Verb: Cantar | |
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| Enjoying Yourself: Recreation | |
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| The Good and the Bad of Going Outdoors | |
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| Typical Walking Phrases | |
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| Trees and Plants | |
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| Checking Out the Animals | |
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| Saying What You Like: The Verb Gustar | |
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| Strolling Along: The Walking Verb, Pasear | |
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| Playing Ball Games | |
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| Pre-Columbian games | |
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| The most popular ball game: Futbol | |
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| Baseball's #2 | |
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| Tennis players star | |
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| The Playing Verb: Jugar | |
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| The Swimming Verb: Nadar | |
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| Playing Chess in Spain | |
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| The Reading Verb: Leer | |
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| The Writing Verb: Escribir | |
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| Talking on the Phone | |
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| Opening Lines | |
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| Dealing with "Porridge" (When You Can't Make Out the Words) | |
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| A Word about "Spelling Out" | |
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| Calling: Llamar | |
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| Phone-y Verbs: To Call, to Leave, and to Listen and Hear | |
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| Using the Simple Past Tense | |
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| You called? The past tense of llamar | |
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| Did you leave a message? The past tense of dejar | |
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| Have you heard? The past tense of escuchar | |
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| At the Office and Around the House | |
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| Buildings Small and Tall | |
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| How big is this building? | |
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| Which floor comes first? | |
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| At work | |
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| Some Typical Phrases or Idioms: Asunto | |
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| Using Emplear: The Hiring Verb | |
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| Hacer: The Doing, Making Verb | |
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| Speaking of Houses | |
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| Some rental wisdom | |
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| Some Variations on the Renting Verb | |
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| Spanish on the Go | |
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| Money, Money, Money | |
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| Using the ATM | |
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| Using Your Credit Card | |
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| Using Travelers' Checks | |
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| Using the Verb Cambiar (To Exchange) | |
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| Exchanging Your Dollars for the Local Currency | |
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| Currency Wise: Impressing Friends with Latin American Currencies | |
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| Donde Esta? (Where Is It?): Asking Directions | |
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| Donde? The Question for Going Places | |
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| Adonde Vamos? Where Do We Go? | |
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| Where in Your Body: Orienting Space to Your Person | |
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| Understanding Spatial Directions | |
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| Mapping the Place | |
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| The Verb that Takes You Up: Subir | |
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| The Verb that Goes Down: Bajar | |
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| Here and There and Everywhere | |
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| Ordinal Numbers: The Big Countdown | |
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| Cerca and Lejos: How Far Should You Go? | |
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| Checking into a Hotel | |
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| Check Out the Hotel Before You Check in | |
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| Registering and Checking Out the Water | |
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| Dormir: The Sleeping Verb | |
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| Using Despertar: The Waking Up Verb | |
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| Being Possessive | |
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| Possessive adjectives | |
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| Possessive pronouns | |
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| Getting Around: Planes, Trains, Taxis, and More | |
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| Getting Around | |
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| Finding the train station | |
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| Checking your documents on the train | |
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| Dealing with the Customs Office | |
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| Registering cameras, computers, and other equipment | |
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| Using the Verb Traer (to Bring) | |
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| Practicing the bringing verb | |
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| Getting a Taxi, Bus, or Car Rental | |
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| Getting the bus to take you there | |
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| Driving Concerns | |
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| Driver's licenses | |
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| Road signs | |
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| Renting a Car | |
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| Questions about driving | |
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| Questions about the road | |
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| Scheduling Issues: Running Late, Early, or On Time | |
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| The Outgoing Verb: Salir | |
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| Using the Waiting Verb: Esperar | |
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| Practicing the waiting verb | |
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| Getting around in the City | |
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| Planning a Trip | |
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| Making Travel Plans | |
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| Planning for the Weather | |
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| Timing your trip: pick a month | |
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| Mastering Visas and Passports | |
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| Using the Verb to Go: Ir | |
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| Traveling into the simple future: ir a viajar | |
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| Scheduling hours and minutes | |
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| Packing: Less Is More | |
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| Taking Along Your Computer | |
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| Help! Handling Emergencies | |
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| Shouting for Help | |
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| Handling Health Problems | |
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| Helping out: Using ayudar (to help) | |
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| Reflex action: Helping yourself with pronouns | |
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| Painful phrases for when it hurts | |
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| Telling where it hurts | |
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| Describing symptoms | |
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| Braving the dentist | |
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| Insuring that you get reimbursed | |
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| Getting Help with Legal Problems | |
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| Stick 'em up: Words when robbed | |
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| Reporting to the police | |
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| Using the Searching Verb: Buscar | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Ways to Speak Spanish Quickly | |
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| Go to Spanish-Speaking Places | |
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| Investigate Your Neighborhood | |
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| Listen to Radio and TV | |
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| Rent a Movie | |
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| Check Out Your Library | |
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| Read the Liner Notes | |
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| Create a Game (Secret or Not) | |
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| Use Stickers | |
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| Say It Again, Sam | |
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| Ten Favorite Spanish Expressions | |
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| Que tal? | |
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| Quiubo? | |
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| Que paso? | |
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| Como van las cosas? | |
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| Del uno! | |
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| Cuanto cuesta? | |
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| A cuanto? | |
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| Un asalto! | |
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| Una ganga! | |
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| Buen provecho! | |
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| Salud! | |
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| Buen viaje! | |
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| Ten Holidays to Remember | |
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| Ano Nuevo | |
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| La Fiesta de Reyes | |
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| Paradura del Nino | |
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| Carnaval | |
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| Viernes Santo | |
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| Dia de la Madre | |
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| Nuestra Senora de Aiquina | |
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| Nuestro Senor de los Milagros | |
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| Dia de los Muertos | |
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| Dia de Santiago | |
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| Your Own Holiday | |
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| Ten Phrases That Make You Sound Fluent in Spanish | |
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| Esta es la mia! | |
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| Y eso con que se come? | |
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| Voy a ir de farra | |
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| Caer fatal | |
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| Nos divertimos en grande | |
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| Ver negro para | |
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| Paso sin pena ni gloria | |
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| Asi a secas! | |
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| La cosa va viento en popa! | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Dictionaries | |
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| Spanish-English Mini Dictionary | |
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| English-Spanish Mini Dictionary | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Spanish Verbs | |
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| Irregular Spanish Verbs | |
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| On the CD | |
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| Spanish Facts | |
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| People living in Spanish-Speaking Countries | |
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| Where In the World Is Spanish Spoken? | |
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| Index | |
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| Book Registration Information | |