Spanish in Three Months

by Cisneros, Isabel

• ISBN13: 9780789495570
• ISBN10: 0789495570
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-13
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

The Hugo series of popular self-study language courses prepares vacation or business travelers going to France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Spanish-speaking Central and South America. The books guide readers through essential grammar, pronunciation, and basic conversation with word lists that build vocabulary and exercises that improve speaking skills. The CD use native speakers to demonstrate proper use of the language, Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system makes learning a language easy.

Table of Contents

Pronunciation	7	(6)
Week 1	13	(11)
Articles: the, a, an, some
Gender and plural of nouns Subject pronouns: I, you, he, etc.
Forms of address: Mr., Mrs., etc.
The verb "tener" ("to have")
Negative and interrogative forms Idiomatic uses of "tener"
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 2	24	(9)
Contraction of article
Possession ("John's father")
Adjectives: describing things
The verbs "ser" and "estar" ("to be" )
Exercises and conversation
Week 3	33	(13)
Demonstratives: this, that, these, those
Regular verbs
Present participle ("speaking," "eating")
Interrogative pronouns: what?, who?, whose? etc.
Relative pronouns: who, which, that, of whom, etc.
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 4	46	(16)
Possessive adjectives: my, your, etc.
Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, etc.
Numbers
Telling the time, Days, months, seasons, dates
Exercises, conversation
Revision exercises 1
Week 5	62	(15)
The verb "ir" ("to go")
Past participle ("spoken;' "eaten")
Perfect tense ("I have done")
"Hay" ("there is;' "there are")
Personal "a"
Direct and indirect object pronouns: me, him, to me, to him, etc.
Order of pronouns ("he gives it to me")
Redundant use of object pronouns
The imperative: polite commands
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 6	77	(13)
Question words
Exclamations
Verbs that change their stem
Reflexive verbs (" I wash myself")
Reciprocal form ("we love each other")
Personal pronouns with prepositions
Irregular verbs in the present
Idiomatic uses of "hacer"
Impersonal verbs
The verbs "gustar" ("to like") and "querer" ("to love;' "to want")
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 7	90	(18)
Imperfect tense ("was doing," "used to do")
The verb "soler"
Pluperfect tense ("had done")
Some negative words: never, nothing, neither, etc.
Adverbs ("easily," "frequently")
Comparison of adjectives, adverbs and nouns ("more ...than;' etc.)
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Revision exercises 2
Week 8	108	(14)
Shortening of adjectives
Adjectives that precede the noun
Present tense of three irregular verbs
Irregular past participles
Future tense (" I will / shall do")
Conditional tense ("I would do")
Irregular verbs in the conditional
Uses of the future and conditional
Verbs with prepositions
Idiomatic uses of "llevar" and "hacer"
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 9	122	(16)
Past historic ("I spoke;' "I ate")
Imperfect and past historic contrasted
The two verbs "to know"
Superlative of adjectives ("poorest" "biggest")
Superlative of adverbs
Absolute superlative
Use of the neuter article "lo"
Uses of definite and indefinite articles
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 10	138	(20)
Different uses of "por" and "para"
The passive-and how to avoid it
Changes of spelling in verbs
Verbs followed by an infinitive
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Revision exercises 3
Week 11	158	(15)
Uses of the verb "deber"
"Saber" and "poder"
Present and perfect subjunctive
Uses of the subjunctive
Familiar imperative
Idiomatic uses of "seguir" and "valer"
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 12	173	(15)
Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
Uses of the imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
Sequence of tenses
Use of the subjunctive in "if" clauses and in main clauses
"May" and "might"
Verbs followed by prepositions
"AI" followed by the infinitive
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Week 13	188	(22)
Some important verbs
"Mas" and "menos"
"Tan" and "tal"
"Pero" and "sino"
Prepositions
Augmentatives and diminutives
Idiomatic uses of certain verbs
Exercises, drills, and conversation
Revision exercises 4
Reading practice	210	(8)
Los Españolitos de Alsemberg
Primera Memoria
El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Un pueblo de sueño
Key to exercises	218	(17)
Mini-dictionary	235	(20)
Index	255