Introduction.

Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings.

Chapter 1: Warming Up with the Bare Basics.

Chapter 2: Uno, Dos, Tres: Numbers, Colors, Dates, and Time.

Chapter 3: Greetings, Salutations, and Farewells.

Chapter 4: Engaging in a Little Chitchat.

Chapter 5: Speaking of Food . . .

Chapter 6: Going Shopping.

Chapter 7: Conversing Over the Phone.

Chapter 8: Asking Directions.

Chapter 9: Dealing with Emergencies.

Book II: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials.

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Parts of Speech.

Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues.

Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs.

Chapter 4: ¿Qué? Asking Questions.

Chapter 5: What's Happening: Present Participles and the Present Progressive Tense.

Chapter 6: Two More Simple Tenses: Future and Conditional.

Chapter 7: Spicing Up Your Talk with Adjectives and Adverbs.

Chapter 8: Defi ning Relationships with Prepositions.

Book III: Mastering More Advanced Grammar Essentials.

Chapter 1: Getting Bossy with the Imperative Mood.

Chapter 2: Getting Object Pronouns Involved.

Chapter 3: Involving Yourself in the Action with the Reflexive.

Chapter 4: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense.

Chapter 5: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense.

Chapter 6: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling.

Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses.

Book IV: Spanish at Work.

Chapter 1: Spanish for Healthcare Workers.

Chapter 2: Spanish for Law Enforcement Professionals.

Chapter 3: Spanish for Educators and Administrators.

Chapter 4: Spanish for Banking and Financing.

Chapter 5: Spanish in the Office.

Chapter 6: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Managers.

Chapter 7: Spanish for Builders, Mechanics, and Factory Workers.

Chapter 8: Spanish for Real Estate Professionals.

Chapter 9: Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping.

Book V: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Spanish Verbs.

Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary.

Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary.

Appendix D: About the CD.

Index.

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