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A witty, fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying and frustrating Spanish bloopers Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and trusting falsos amigos (a.k.a., false cognates) are just a few of the blunders English-speaking Spanish-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your Spanish Blunders, veteran Spanish teacher Jean Yates identifies these and other common trouble spots and clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of Spanish differ from those of English and why trying to translate word for word, structure for structure, from English, can lead to big trouble.You will learn to break bad habits and correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for Spanish language patterns with the help of:More than 1,000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid A free app available on iTunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders Numerous examples and practical exercises Quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms A "Hall of Shame" compendium of bad errors to recognize and correct
List of contents
From the contents:
Introduction
PRONUNCIATION AND SPELLING
Pronunciation
Spelling
Capitalization
Punctuation
GRAMMAR
Nouns
Numbers
Noun determiners
Descriptive Adjectives
Verbs
The Infinitive
Types of Verbs
The Indicative Mood
The Conditional
The Subjunctive Mood
Reported Speech
Subjects, Objects, and Their Pronouns
Adverbs and Prepositions with Adverbial Functions
Other Prepositions
Conjunctions
VOCABULARY
Words
Constructions
CATCH THE BLUNDERS
ANSWER KEYS
INDEX OF SPANISH WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
SUBJECT INDEX
About the author
Jean Yates, Ph.D teaches Spanish at George Washington University and is the author of Beginning Spanish for the Utterly Confused, Better Reading Spanish, and Correct Your Spanish Blunders.
