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50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself Keith Chambers

50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself By Keith Chambers

50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself by Keith Chambers


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Summary

Avoid sounding like a beginner with these 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Spanish.

50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself Summary

50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself by Keith Chambers

Do you have a working knowledge of Spanish, but want to improve? Allow this book to come to your rescue and eliminate basic errors and slips of the pen. Each one of 50 top tips for improving your spoken and written Spanish is presented and analyzed across a whole double page, with explanations as to where and why people sometimes go wrong. The tips are grouped into grammar, spelling, false friends, pronunciation and cultural faux pas sections.

Polish your Spanish with this brand new series from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. 50 Ways to Improve your Spanish touches all essential bases and is divided into the following easily digestible sections:

Insights
Instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on Keith Chambers' many years of experience.

Summaries
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Grammar
Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.

Pronunciation
Don't sound like a tourist - polish your pronunciation before you go.
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About Keith Chambers

Keith Chambers has wide experience teaching Spanish in secondary schools, higher education and adult education.

Table of Contents

  • : Meet the author
  • : Only got a minute?
  • : Only got 5 minutes?
  • : Only got 10 minutes?
  • : How to use this book
  • : Looking and sounding right
  • 1: Speling errers - Avoiding mistakes in spelling
  • 2a: It's acute! - Using accents to mark stress
  • 2b: It's acute! - Problems with accents
  • 3: Capital offence - When to use capital letters
  • 4a: Say it after me - Keeping vowels clear and simple
  • 4b: Say it after me - Concentrating on consonants
  • : Getting the structure right
  • : The right word in the right place
  • 5: Now how cow brown - Problems with word order
  • : Nouns, adjectives and adverbs
  • 6a: The cat sat on the mat - When to use the definite article
  • 6b: The cat sat on the mat - Further uses of the definite article
  • 7: What's the form? - Forms of the articles
  • 8: 'A' or 'an' - Mistakes with the indefinite article
  • 9a: A boy named Sue - Tricky genders
  • 9b: A boy named Sue - More tips on gender
  • 10: Don't agree to disagree! - Agreements
  • 11: Blurred picture - Common mistakes with adjectives
  • 12: A bit of this and that - Problems with demonstratives
  • 13: More or less or just the same - Comparisons
  • 14: It's very hard - muy and mucho
  • 15: Softly softly - Easy does it with adverbs
  • : Conjunctions, questions and negatives
  • 16: Yeah, but... no, but... - Using conjunctions
  • 17: What was that? - Question words
  • 18: How long is a piece of string? - Tricky questions
  • 19: No means no! - Negative expressions
  • : Verbs and verb constructions
  • 20: Hey, you! - Which word for 'you'?
  • 21a: Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense usage
  • 21b: Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense formation
  • 22: All in the past - Preterite and imperfect
  • 23a: Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with the reflexive
  • 23b: Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with impersonal se
  • 24: Coming and going - Use and misuse of the gerund
  • 25a: I'll tell you what I want - Basic uses of the subjunctive
  • 25b: I'll tell you what I want - Use and misuse of the subjunctive
  • 26a: Gimme, gimme, gimme - Simple commands and requests
  • 26b: Gimme, gimme, gimme - The 'true' imperative
  • 27a: All together now - Basic errors in joining verbs
  • 27b: All together now - Joining verbs with de and other prepositions
  • 28: Liking and loving - gustar, encantar, querer
  • 29: When I'm 64 - Looking into the future
  • 30: It all depends - Verbs with differing constructions
  • 31: What if? - Tenses with si
  • 32: I'm not so sure! - Problems with expressions of doubt
  • : Pronouns and possessives
  • 33: Only me! - Subject and prepositional pronouns
  • 34: Indirect or direct? - Object pronouns
  • 35a: You're out of order! - Personal pronouns: which comes first?
  • 35b: You're out of order! - Personal pronouns: before or after the verb?
  • 36: 'My' and 'mine' - Problems with possessives
  • : Numbers, dates and times
  • 37: Figure it out! - Problems with numbers
  • 38: When was that? - Days, dates and times
  • : Choosing the right words
  • 39a: What will it be? - When to use ser
  • 39b: What will it be? - When to use estar
  • 40: Being and having - Alternatives to ser/estar
  • 41a: Verbal gymnastics - jugar versus tocar
  • 41b: Verbal gymnastics - pensar versus creer
  • 42a: To have and to hold - tener versus haber
  • 42b: To have and to hold - hay, hay que and tener que
  • 43: Leave it out or I'll quit! - Problems with leaving
  • 44: Getting the know-how - saber, conocer and poder
  • 45: Propositions about prepositions - en, a, de
  • 46: What's it all for? - por and para
  • 47: The missing link - Unexpected uses of prepositions
  • 48: Up the ante - Mistakes with 'before' and 'under'
  • 49: It's behind you! - detras, tras and despues
  • 50: Things aren't always what they seem! - False friends
  • : Glossary of grammatical terms
  • : Index

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GOR007531098
9781444115949
1444115944
50 Ways to Improve your Spanish: Teach Yourself by Keith Chambers
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Murray Press
20100827
160
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