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When writing this book, I made the following assumptions about you, my dear reader: You have some experience with and knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar You re looking for the opportunity to review what you ve already mastered and are intent on moving forward to new areas of knowledge

You can speak Spanish fairly well and are more interested in improving your writing skills You want to perfect your Spanish because you re planning a trip, conducting business, or are a foreign-language student You want to speak and write Spanish colloquially, like a native does, and you want to use Spanish in practical, everyday applications You want a book that s complete but isn t so advanced that you get lost in the rules I try to explain the rules as clearly as possible without using too many grammatical terms I ve left out the most advanced grammar because you simply don t need it to be understood in everyday situations Keep it clean and simple and you ll do just fine, and others will appreciate your honest attempts at communicating in another language

I ve divided Intermediate Spanish For Dummies into six parts so that you can focus on whatever suits your fancy at the moment Feel free to skip parts that you feel you already know or that are irrelevant to you The following sections outline the focus of the six parts of this book

In this part, you review the vocabulary and knowledge of numbers that you need daily when using Spanish Right from the first chapter, you re given a working vocabulary that will help you express yourself in most situations I also give a quick grammar review as a refresher to what you ve mastered on the elementary level Finally, although you may think you re a pro at finding the right word in the dictionary, this part will show you how to avoid making common errors

This part shows you how to write in the present tense, using verbs that are regular and verbs that are really quite quirky You practice asking and answering yes/no questions, as well as questions that ask for information I also introduce the present progressive tense, which allows you to express actions that are taking place as we speak, and the mysteries of the present subjunctive with clear explanations and examples

This part takes you on a tour of fundamental Spanish grammar: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, comparisons, direct and indirect object pronouns, commands, reflexive verbs, and prepositions These topics reflect the building blocks of the language; you just can t write clearly without them You discover how Spanish differs from English because of rules regarding gender (masculine or feminine forms of nouns

and adjectives) You find out where to properly place the parts of speech in a sentence And oddly enough, in this part, you learn things about English you never knew because no English teacher ever mentioned this grammar in any of your classes

Part IV presents the two main past tenses in Spanish: the preterit and the imperfect You find out how to form each of these tenses, and you review the conditions where they must be used This exercise is particularly important because there s no English equivalent of the imperfect, making its use a bit strange to many people You also see how to express what you re going to do in the future

The three Tens chapters in this part will help you to improve your writing skills I show you the ten most common writing mistakes people make in Spanish so that you can avoid them at all costs You get ten tips that will show you how to write better sentences and steer clear of common grammar mistakes Finally, you discover how to select which Spanish verb to use when two of them seem to have the same English definition