Spanish for Geniuses: Verbs, Pronouns, Prepositions and Beginner Vocabulary
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Spanish for Geniuses: Verbs, pronouns, prepositions and basic vocabulary is the accompanying book to Spanish for Geniuses: Advanced classes to get you speaking with fluency and confidence. The book contains full verb tables for both regular and irregular verbs, preposition lists and basic vocabulary functions including ordering in restaurants, the weather, times, dates and numbers.
The Spanish for Geniuses series are advanced learners’ manuals designed to help you eliminate all those common and not-so-common ‘gringo’ mistakes and open the gateway onto the way Spanish speakers really speak with phrases and tip bits to make thousands of conversations from chatting with friends, organizing, negotiating, receiving a service or solving an emergency.
Andromeda Jones
Hi, my name is Andromeda and I am an English language teacher living in Spain. I am a language fanatic and speak Spanish. My books include The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere and Spanish for Geniuses: Advanced classes to get you speaking with fluency and confidence.
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Spanish for Geniuses - Andromeda Jones
Spanish for Geniuses:
Verbs, pronouns, prepositions and beginner vocabulary
By Andromeda Jones
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Spanish for Geniuses:Verbs, pronouns, prepositions and beginner vocabulary/ Andromeda Jones.
1. Spanish language learning. 2. Spanish grammar and vocabulary
Contents
Introduction
The alphabet
Demonstratives: This, that these and those
Possessive adjectives and pronouns
Pronouns: Subject, object, prepositional and interrogative pronouns
Ser vs. estar
Regular verbs in present
Irregular verbs in present
Gustar and back to front verbs
Giving orders: The imperative tense
The future
The conditional tense
The past: the preterit and imperfect
Between the past and present: the perfect tense
The continuous tense
Reflexives
The subjunctive
The pluperfect subjunctive
Prepositions
Dates and numbers
Additional information
Introduction
Spanish for Geniuses: Verbs, pronouns, prepositions and beginner vocabulary is a free accompanying guide to the original book Spanish for Geniuses: Advanced classes to get you speaking with fluency and confidence.
It contains extra verb tables, preposition lists and vocabulary functions that I was not able to fit into the original book. Spanish for Geniuses is a series of books for people who wish to learn advanced Spanish up to fluency level.
I chose the title Spanish for Geniuses not because only a genius can learn a language but because there are certain genius ways to learn it quicker and more proficiently than the traditional study route. My methods are explored in the original book Spanish for Geniuses book while you can find additional material in this verb and preposition book here.
About this series
The Spanish for Geniuses series are written for English speakers who wish to learn Spanish to a high level. For this reason it talks a lot about the way we use our native language as (I discovered when teaching English) understanding how our own grammar works is the key to understanding the grammar of other foreign languages including Spanish.
Because I live in Spain the emphasis is on Castilian Spanish but it can be applied to South American also as, with the exception of Argentina and Uruguay, there are only a few differences in vocabulary and pronunciation.
About the author
I am a British English teacher teaching in Spain. Ten years ago I started out like you – learning Spanish though my own interest. Somewhere along the way I got ambitious and started noting and categorising the phrases people used around me to create a resource that went way beyond traditional Spanish language books.
I published because I figured that there were others out there like me who could use them. Those being the afictionados – the people who wanted to do more than order a meal –the people who want to know everything – or at least as much as the could.
This is why I wrote Spanish for Geniuses. For Geniuses like you.
1. The alphabet
Spanish (unlike English) is a phonetic language meaning that you say the word how it is spelt, using all of the vocals. But first you must learn the alphabet.
A - ah
B - beh
C - seh (put your tongue between your teeth, almost as if to pronounce ‘th’)
D – deh
E – eh
F – ef-e
G – heh (this is usually a hard sound, pronounced from the back of the throat)
H - ah-che (H is almost never pronounced and therefore a word like ‘hijo’ (son) is actually spoke ‘ijo’).
I – ee
J –hotah
K – kah
L – el-eh
M – em-eh
N –en-eh
Ñ – en-yeh (careful attention must be paid to distinguish between the two ‘n’ vocals.)
O – oh
P – peh
Q – coo
R –air-eh
S – es-eh
T – teh
U – oo
V – veh
W – oveh-dobley
X – ek-is
Y – y-grega
Z - seh-tah
Additional sounds
‘Ch’ is the same as English like Church.
‘ll’ in Spain and most of South America is pronounced like ‘y’ as in ‘yacht’.
‘rr’ pronounced by rolling your ‘rs’ like a puring cat. It is important to get the hang of