Introduction 1 Book 1: Getting Started with Spanish 5 Chapter 1: Sounding Like a Native Speaker 7 Chapter 2: Talking Numbers, Time, and the Weather 19 Chapter 3: Updating Your Personal Profile 35 Chapter 4: Satisfying Your Appetite 59 Chapter 5: Shopping Until You Drop. 79 Chapter 6: Going Places: Planes, Trains, Taxis, & More 95 Chapter 7: Finding a Place to Stay 111 Book 2: Grasping Basic Grammar 125 Chapter 1: Flipping Through the Dictionary 127 Chapter 2: Addressing Gender Issues 139 Chapter 3: Navigating Pronouns 155 Chapter 4: Dealing with the Here and Now: Present Tense Verbs 177 Chapter 5: Reflecting on Reflexive Verbs 195 Chapter 6: Using the Present Progressive 203 Chapter 7: Spicing It Up with Adjectives and Adverbs 211 Chapter 8: Asking Questions: Being Positive and Negative 227 Book 3: Mastering More Advanced Grammar 241 Chapter 1: Understanding Prepositions and Conjunctions 243 Chapter 2: Been There, Done That: Past (Preterit) Tense 259 Chapter 3: Continuing in the Past with the Imperfect Tense 271 Chapter 4: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 279 Chapter 5: Being Bossy with the Imperative Mood 299 Chapter 6: Preparing for the Future and the Conditional 313 Chapter 7: Forming the Compound Tenses 321 Chapter 8: Being Passive 333 Book 4: Spanish at Work 337 Chapter 1: Spanish for Domestic Workers. 339 Chapter 2: Spanish for Caregivers 359 Chapter 3: Spanish for Healthcare Workers 375 Chapter 4: Spanish for Gardeners and Landscapers 401 Chapter 5: Spanish for Law Enforcement Pros 413 Chapter 6: Spanish for Educators and Administrators 427 Chapter 7: Spanish for Office Managers 443 Chapter 8: Spanish for Hotel and Restaurant Personnel 459 Book 5: Appendixes 475 Appendix A: Spanish Verbs 477 Appendix B: Spanish-English Mini Dictionary 489 Appendix C: English-Spanish Mini Dictionary 507 Appendix D: Spanish Words That Change from Country to Country 527 Index 535.