Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with the Basics 5 Chapter 1: Getting a Jump Start in Spanish 7 Chapter 2: Selecting the Proper Part of Speech 33 Part 2: The Here and Now 49 Chapter 3: Sorting Out Word Gender 51 Chapter 4: Coloring Your Sentences with Adjectives 73 Chapter 5: Expressing Yourself in the Present 91 Chapter 6: Expressing Yourself with Subjunctive Feeling 121 Chapter 7: Enriching Your Sentences with Adverbs and Comparisons 149 Part 3: Giving and Obtaining Information 163 Chapter 8: Getting Answers with the Right Questions 165 Chapter 9: Being Clear and Concise with Object Pronouns 185 Chapter 10: Reflecting on Reflexive Pronouns and Verbs 205 Chapter 11: Getting Attention with Commands 217 Chapter 12: Preparing to Connect with Prepositions 239 Part 4: Reminiscing about the Past and Seeing into the Future 253 Chapter 13: Leaving It Completely in the Past 255 Chapter 14: Looking Back with the Imperfect 269 Chapter 15: Seeing into the Future 283 Part 5: The Part of Tens 293 Chapter 16: Ten Most Common Mistakes in Spanish 295 Chapter 17: Ten Important Verb Distinctions 301 Part 6: Appendixes 307 Appendix A: Verb Charts 309 Appendix B: Thematic Vocabulary 319 Appendix C: English-Spanish Dictionary 331 Appendix D: Spanish-English Dictionary 335 Index 341.