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    Spanish for Beginners: Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days
    Spanish for Beginners: Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days
    Spanish for Beginners: Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days
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    Spanish for Beginners: Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days

    By Sergio Rodriguez

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    Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language. 
    The fast and steady growth of the Spanish speaking population has made Spanish a necessity in business. Learning Spanish will empower you to communicate in the most productive way with Spanish speaking co-workers, employees, or customers. Hispanic consumers are the most dynamic market segment in North America. 
    Knowing Spanish is particularly advantageous if you're in the healthcare or education sector. The globalization trend has made it possible to tap this vast and fast growing market segment. Health practitioners and professionals who want to provide the best services to their Spanish-speaking clients will want to speak and understand their language to ensure that there are no barriers to excellent service. 
    If you're looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your résumé will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual. 
    If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience. 
    If this is your first time to learn a Romance language, you can use this knowledge to easily learn other related languages.
    The book "Spanish for Beginners" is designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It is written with the self-learner in mind and organized to help its readers understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time. 
    This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning, anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days.
    Learning a language permanently requires mastery of its fundamentals. This book highlights the important features of the Spanish language in the areas of grammar, pronunciation, syllabication, sentence formation, and communication. 
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhiteFlowerPublsihing
    Release dateApr 24, 2020
    ISBN9781386295204

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    Spanish for Beginners - Sergio Rodriguez

    Spanish for Beginners

    Learn the Basics of Spanish in 7 Days

    By Sergio Rodriguez

    Copyright 2018 - All Rights Reserved – Sergio Rodriguez

    ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informational storage or retrieval system without express written, dated and signed permission from the author.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction: 6

    Chapter 1: Learning Strategies 10

    How to Learn Spanish Quickly and Easily 10

    How to Use this Book to Learn Spanish 11

    Chapter 2: The Fundamentals Of Spanish 14

    The Spanish Alphabet 14

    Pronunciation 15

    Syllabication 18

    Stress And Accent Mark 21

    Chapter 3: Numbers, Colors, Time, And Date 24

    Cardinal Numbers 24

    Ordinal Numbers 27

    Fractions (Fracciones) 31

    Decimals And Percentages 31

    Colors 32

    Days Of The Week 33

    Months Of The Year 34

    Seasons Of The Year 35

    Telling Time And Date 35

    Chapter 4: Nouns And Articles 40

    Articles 40

    Gender Of Nouns 43

    Forming Plural Nouns 48

    Pluralia Tantum 51

    Singularia Tantum 52

    Chapter 5: Pronouns 54

    Subject Pronouns 54

    Direct Object Pronouns 55

    Indirect Object Pronouns 56

    Possessive Pronouns 57

    Interrogative Pronouns 58

    Indefinite Pronouns 61

    Chapter 6: Verbs 64

    The Indicative Mood 64

    Conjugating Regular Verbs 65

    The Present Tense 66

    Stem-Changing Verbs 67

    Ser And Estar 76

    Simple Past Tenses 80

    The Future Tense 84

    The Perfect Tenses 87

    Reflexive Verbs 93

    Chapter 7: Adjectives 96

    Placement Of Adjectives 99

    Most Commonly Used Adjectives 104

    Demonstrative Adjectives 109

    Chapter 8: Prepositions, Adverbs, And Conjunctions 111

    Prepositions 111

    Adverbs 113

    Conjunctions 120

    Chapter 9: Forming Sentences 123

    Sentence Patterns 123

    Declarative Sentences 125

    Interrogative Sentences 126

    Negative Sentences 127

    Chapter 10: The Subjunctive & Imperative Mood 128

    The Subjunctive Mood 128

    The Imperative Mood 130

    Chapter 11: Making Comparisons 136

    Comparisons of Equality 136

    Comparisons of Inequality 137

    Irregular Comparison 138

    CHAPTER 12: CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES 140

    Talking About Yourself 140

    Introductions 140

    The Family 143

    Parts Of The House 145

    Talking about the Weather (El Tiempo) 146

    Greetings And Common Expressions 149

    Conclusion 151

    Did you enjoy this book? 152

    Introduction

    Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language.

    The fast and steady growth of the Spanish speaking population has made Spanish a necessity in business. Learning Spanish will empower you to communicate in the most productive way with Spanish speaking co-workers, employees, or customers. Hispanic consumers are the most dynamic market segment in North America.

    Knowing Spanish is particularly advantageous if you’re in the healthcare or education sector. The globalization trend has made it possible to tap this vast and fast growing market segment. Health practitioners and professionals who want to provide the best services to their Spanish-speaking clients will want to speak and understand their language to ensure that there are no barriers to excellent service.

    If you’re looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your résumé will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual.

    If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience.

    If this is your first time learning  a Romance language, you can use this knowledge to easily learn other related languages.

    The book Spanish for Beginners is designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It is written with the self-learner in mind and organized to help its readers understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time.

    This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning. Anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days.

    Most English speakers will find Spanish a relatively easy language to learn. For one, like English, it uses the same Latin or Roman alphabet. Except for the letter Ňň, the rest of the alphabet will look familiar. There are no special characters to learn. In addition, the vowels have the same sound wherever you find them. As both English and Spanish have Latin roots, there are thousands of cognates between them that will make vocabulary building an easier task.

    While they share the same roots, English and Spanish have vastly distinct grammar and pronunciation rules. An area that always poses a challenge to an English-speaker is the extensive application of gender in Spanish. Gender, along with the number of nouns, influences the way modifiers like adjectives and articles are formed. This book provides the techniques you need to overcome difficulties with gender and noun identification. 

    Learning a language permanently requires mastery of its fundamentals. This book highlights the important features of the Spanish language in the areas of grammar, pronunciation, syllabication, sentence formation, and communication. It provides the strategies you need to understand the Spanish numeric system easily and be able to count in Spanish in less than thirty minutes.

    By learning the core of the language, you will be able to build other important skills such as telling time, forming your own sentences, introducing yourself to people, reading literary works, and taking part in daily conversations in Spanish. This learning material will provide the steps and strategies you need to give yourself a solid foundation in Spanish.

    The book ‘Spanish for Beginners’ is a complete training course for beginners who want to learn Spanish quickly, easily, and permanently. It is developed for self-learners who are looking for a well-organized and comprehensive yet concise and straightforward approach to language learning.

    This learning material will help you overcome the apprehensions and frustrations language learners face when using conventional methods. By helping you achieve learning milestones in a short amount of time, you will be able to build the confidence and skills you need to level up, speak confidently, and hold conversations with native speakers in no time at all.

    While the lessons in this book are organized with the beginner in mind, the lessons can also be used by anyone with or without a background in Spanish. You can work at your own pace but to

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