50 Ways to Improve Your Spanish: Teach Yourself

Meet the author Only got a minute? Only got 5 minutes? Only got 10 minutes? How to use this book Looking and sounding right 1 Speling errers - Avoiding mistakes in spelling 2a It's acute! - Using accents to mark stress 2b It's acute! - Problems with accents 3 Capital offence - When to use capital letters 4a Say it after me - Keeping vowels clear and simple 4b Say it after me - Concentrating on consonants Getting the structure right The right word in the right place 5 Now how cow brown - Problems with word order Nouns, adjectives and adverbs 6a The cat sat on the mat - When to use the definite article 6b The cat sat on the mat - Further uses of the definite article 7 What's the form? - Forms of the articles 8 'A' or 'an' - Mistakes with the indefinite article 9a A boy named Sue - Tricky genders 9b A boy named Sue - More tips on gender 10 Don't agree to disagree! - Agreements 11 Blurred picture - Common mistakes with adjectives 12 A bit of this and that - Problems with demonstratives 13 More or less or just the same - Comparisons 14 It's very hard - muy and mucho 15 Softly softly - Easy does it with adverbs Conjunctions, questions and negatives 16 Yeah, but... no, but... - Using conjunctions 17 What was that? - Question words 18 How long is a piece of string? - Tricky questions 19 No means no! - Negative expressions Verbs and verb constructions 20 Hey, you! - Which word for 'you'? 21a Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense usage 21b Clear and present danger - Pitfalls in present-tense formation 22 All in the past - Preterite and imperfect 23a Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with the reflexive 23b Passive resistance - Replacing the passive with impersonal se 24 Coming and going - Use and misuse of the gerund 25a I'll tell you what I want - Basic uses of the subjunctive 25b I'll tell you what I want - Use and misuse of the subjunctive 26a Gimme, gimme, gimme - Simple commands and requests 26b Gimme, gimme, gimme - The 'true' imperative 27a All

Keith Chambers has wide experience teaching Spanish in secondary schools, higher education and adult education.