Beginning Spanish

Drop boring language courses and learn Spanish with this colorful, info-packed course!

Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Spanish gives you an all-encompassing learning experience. You'll immerse yourself in extensive audio clips and written exercises, giving you the comfort and support you need to learn Spanish.

This dynamic package features:

• An Interactive CD-ROM program with more than 400 dialogues and audio exercises
• The book provides extensive written exercises in support of the CD-ROM,
• A concise grammar overview and comprehensive glossary for quick reference
• Author podcasts that provide insight into the grammar and culture

Topics include: Finding Your Way Around-Hay, Describing Places and Things-Adjectives, Talking about Nationalities and Professions, Food and Film-Ser, Describing People, Emotions, and Health-Ser and Estar, Talking about Work and Play-Ir and Hacer, Talking about What you Need and What you Know, Shopping and Cooking-Saber and Conocer, Entertaining at Home-Tener, Your Daily Routine-Reflexive Verbs, Talking about Trips, Your Likes and Dislikes-The Preterite; Talking about your Childhood-The Imperfect, Health and Accidents-The Imperfect and the Preterite, At School and the Office-Comparatives and Superlatives, Business and The Cost of Living-The Present Perfect and the Past Perfect, Giving and Following Directions-The Imperative, Plans for the Holidays-The Future and Conditional, Talking about Relationships, Making Judgments-The Present Subjunctive