Spanish for English Speakers: Everyday Latin American Spanish for Real Conversations: Read It, Speak It and Understand It, A1–A2
Sanchez, Eduardo
Synopsis "Spanish for English Speakers: Everyday Latin American Spanish for Real Conversations: Read It, Speak It and Understand It, A1–A2"
Spanish you can use from chapter one Want to talk with your Spanish-speaking neighbors, coworkers, in-laws or customers, and be understood? Spanish for English Speakers teaches the everyday Spanish of Mexico and Latin America, starting from what you already know: English, and thousands of words the two languages share. Spanish is spelled the way it sounds. Chapter 1 teaches you to read any Spanish word aloud, with the stress in the right place, using a simple respelling in English letters (gracias = GRAH-syahs, café = kah-FEH, never "kah-FAY"). By chapter 5 you won't need it. What's inside 26 chapters, levels A1–A2: greetings and courtesy, ser and estar, the present, the two past tenses, the future, commands, por and para, polite requests Real conversations with a recurring cast: a couple in San Antonio, their Mexican neighbors, a coworker from Colombia, and a trip to Guadalajara For life in the US: work and job sites, serving a customer, the doctor and 911, home repairs, the kids' school, the phone False friends that trip up English speakers (embarazada is not "embarrassed") 122 exercises with an answer key, verb tables, a pocket guide, and Spanish–English and English–Spanish glossaries Audio for every dialogue and for the vocabulary of chapters 1–4, online, through a QR code What this book is, and isn't It's a conversation course for adult beginners, in neutral Latin American Spanish (Spain's forms are noted, not taught). It isn't a grammar reference, and it stops before the subjunctive: at the end you'll handle everyday conversations slowly and be understood, and the last chapter shows you how to keep going.