Introduction 1 Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7 Chapter 1: Warming Up with the Bare Basics 9 Chapter 2: Uno, Dos, Tres: Numbers, Colors, Dates, and Time 23 Chapter 3: Greetings, Salutations, and Farewells 39 Chapter 4: Engaging in a Little Chitchat 53 Chapter 5: Speaking of Food 69 Chapter 6: Going Shopping 89 Chapter 7: Conversing Over the Phone 109 Chapter 8: Asking Directions 121 Chapter 9: Dealing with Emergencies 133 Book II: Grasping Basic Grammar Essentials 149 Chapter 1: Getting to Know Your Parts of Speech 151 Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues 165 Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs 181 Chapter 4: Que? Asking Questions 201 Chapter 5: What's Happening: Present Participles and the Present Progressive Tense 213 Chapter 6: Two More Simple Tenses: Future and Conditional 221 Chapter 7: Spicing Up Your Talk with Adjectives and Adverbs 231 Chapter 8: Defi ning Relationships with Prepositions 247 Book III: Mastering More Advanced Grammar Essentials 257 Chapter 1: Getting Bossy with the Imperative Mood 259 Chapter 2: Getting Object Pronouns Involved 271 Chapter 3: Involving Yourself in the Action with the Reflexive 281 Chapter 4: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense 289 Chapter 5: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense 301 Chapter 6: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 307 Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses 323 Book IV: Spanish at Work 337 Chapter 1: Spanish for Healthcare Workers 339 Chapter 2: Spanish for Law Enforcement Professionals 367 Chapter 3: Spanish for Educators and Administrators 383 Chapter 4: Spanish for Banking and Financing 401 Chapter 5: Spanish in the Office 417 Chapter 6: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Managers 437 Chapter 7: Spanish for Builders, Mechanics, and Factory Workers 459 Chapter 8: Spanish for Real Estate Professionals 471 Chapter 9: Spanish for Gardening and Landscaping 491 Book V: Appendixes 503 Appendix A: Spanish Verbs 505 Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary 585 Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary 605 Appendix D: About the CD 627 Index 631 End-User License Agreement 669