Introduction to Spanish: Understanding "To Be," Ser and Estar
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Spanish dictionaries and grammar books can be found in the following call number ranges:
Webster's Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary
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Spanish Verb Tenses
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Easy Spanish Step-by-Step
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The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
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Suggested Websites
Look for U.S. government websites with glossary terms for specific subject areas.
Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way
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Rick Steves Spanish Phrase Book and Dictionary
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Spanish for Dummies®
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McGraw Hill's Complete Medical Spanish, Premium Fourth Edition
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English and Spanish Medical Words and Phrases
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Quick Spanish for Emergency Responders
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Street-smart Spanish for first responders
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An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers
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The Story of Spanish
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Spanglish: the Making of a New American Language
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These lower level readers and short stories might be useful as you learn to read in Spanish.
Stories from Spain (Historias de Espana)
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Stories from Mexico (Historias de México)
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Stories from Latin America (Historias de Latinoamerica)
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Historias de Puerto Rico
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Short Stories in Spanish
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Laughing Out Loud, I Fly
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Reversible Monuments
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Spanish Irregular Verbs up Close
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Solve the mysteries of Spanish irregular verbs Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Irregular Verbs Up Close puts the spotlight on this tricky grammar trouble spot. It boasts plenty of opportunities for practicing your language skills, as well as extensive examples based on a conversational style that will keep you engaged. The book also features a unique answer key that gives you more than just a listing of correct answers; it clues you in on the "why" behind them. This book includes: Hundreds of exercises for practice, practice, practice A helpful answer key that provides detailed explanatory material for all answers Includes a special TurboVerb (TM) chart, developed by the author, that sorts out your difficulties with irregular verbs--tense by tense Topics include: Overview of the Spanish Verb System, The Four Microsystems of the Spanish Verb System, Present System I: Present Indicative, Present System II: Present Subjunctive, Present System III: Imperatives, Infinitive System I: Imperfect Indicative, Infinitive System II: Future, Infinitive System III: Conditional, Preterite System I: Preterite Indicative, Preterite System II: Imperfect Subjunctive, Participial System I: Gerund for Progressives, Participial System II: Past Participle for All Seven Perfect Tenses, Participial System III: Past Participle for the Passive Voice and as Adjective
Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses
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Go beyond conjugation and learn the right verb tenses for speaking and writing in Spanish If you are looking for help memorizing Spanish verb conjugations, then any Spanish verb book will do. But if you are interested in becoming fluent, you'll need to learn how these language building blocks are used in everyday speech and writing. That's where Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses comes in. The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate Spanish-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in choosing the right word. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses lets you: Learn when and why to use different verb tenses Reinforce your knowledge with everyday examples covering a wide range of topics Build your verb skills using more than 250 engaging exercises With numerous skill-building exercises, comprehensive verb conjugation tables, and the proven Practice Makes Perfect format, you will learn to speak and write in Spanish fluently in no time at all. An enhanced ebook is now available with an audio answer key. Please select Kindle Edition with Audio/Video from the available formats. Topics include: Present Tense; Conjugation of Regular Verbs; Ser and Estar; Hay; Tener; The Personal a; A Dozen Highly Useful Irregular Verbs; Saber and Conocer; Stem-Changing Infinitives; Noteworthy Infinitives; Reflexive Verbs; Gustar et al.; The Present Progressive; The Past, Future, and Conditional Tenses; The Preterite Tense; The Imperfect Tense; The Future Tense; The Conditional Tense; The Present Perfect Tense; The Past Perfect Tense; The Imperative, Subjunctive, and Compound Tenses, and the Passive Voice; The Imperative; The Present Subjunctive; The Imperfect Subjunctive; The Future Perfect; The Conditional Perfect; The Present Perfect Subjunctive; The Pluperfect Subjunctive; The Passive Voice
Quick Spanish for Law Enforcement
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Spanish Word Games for Dummies
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The following links are PDF files for handouts provided by the Language Lab on parts of speech rules for Spanish.
