Table of Contents
Introduction 1 About This Audio Set 1
Conventions Used in This Audio Set 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
How This Audio Set Is Organized 3
Where to Go from Here 3
Lesson 1:1: Welcome and Overview of CD1: The Basics 5
Lesson 1:2: Personal Pronouns and Formalities 6
Personal pronouns 6
Formalities 7
Lesson 1:3: Saying “Hello” and “Goodbye” 8
Greetings 8
Send-offs 8
Lesson 1:4: Saying and Replying to “How are you?” 10
Lesson 1:5: Introducing Yourself and Talking about Where You’re From 11
Lesson 1:6: Indispensable Words 13
Making small talk 13
Asking for help 13
Miscellaneous words 14
Places 15
People 15
Lesson 1:7: Useful Expressions and Phrases 17
Lesson 1:8: Question Words 18
Lesson 1:9: Useful Questions (and Answers) 19
Lesson 1:10: You Can Count on Me: An Overview of Numbers 20
Lesson 1:11: Talking about Time 22
Lesson 1:12: Going through the Calendar and Forming the Date 23
Days 23
Months 23
Dates 24
Lesson 1:13: Directions 25
Lesson 2:1: Welcome and Overview of CD2: The Nitty Gritty: Language Structure 27
Lesson 2:2: Singular Nouns and Articles 28
Nouns on the street 28
Nouns for shopping 29
Nouns at home 30
Lesson 2:3: First Verbs: The Verbs to Like, to Have, to Need, and to Want 31
to like gustarse 31
to have tener 31
to need necesitar 32
to want querer 32
Lesson 2:4: Plural Nouns and Articles 33
Lesson 2:5: The Verb Ser (to Be) 35
Lesson 2:6: Adjectives 36
Colors (M/F) 36
Attributes (M/F) 37
Occupations (M/F) 38
Sentence examples with adjectives 38
Lesson 2:7: Degrees of Adjectives 39
Common comparisons 39
Lesson 2:8: Verbs in the Infinitive Form 40
Regular verbs 40
Irregular verbs 41
Lesson 2:9: Present Tense 42
Regular verbs ending with -ar 42
to look mirar 42
to speak hablar 42
Regular verbs ending with -er and -ir 43
to eat comer 43
Irregular verbs 43
to be (temporary/place) estar 43
to do/make hacer 44
to go ir 44
to say decir 44
Lesson 2:10: Simple Past Tense of Regular Verbs 46
Regular verbs 46
to speak hablar 46
to eat comer 47
Simple past tense with irregular verbs 47
to be (temporary/place) estar 47
to be ser 47
to do/make hacer 47
to go ir 48
to say decir 48
to have tener 48
Lesson 2:11: Simple Future 49
Lesson 2:12: Prepositions and Conjunctions 50
Prepositions 50
Conjunctions 51
Lesson 2:13: Forming Simple Sentences 52
Lesson 2:14: Negative Sentences 53
Lesson 2:15: Forming Questions 54
Lesson 3:1: Welcome and Overview of CD3: Real-World Situations 55
Lesson 3:2: At the Office 56
Vocabulary 56
Verbs 57
Lesson 3:3: On the Job 58
Vocabulary 58
Lesson 3:4: Making Small Talk 59
Sentences and phrases 59
Lesson 3:5: Making Appointments 60
Vocabulary 60
Verbs 60
Lesson 3:6: Making Travel Arrangements 61
Vocabulary 61
Verbs 61
Sentences and phrases 62
Lesson 3:7: Asking for Directions 63
Vocabulary 63
Sentences and phrases 64
Lesson 3:8: Asking for and Getting Help 65
Vocabulary 65
Emergency sentences and phrases 66
Lesson 3:9: At the Restaurant 67
Vocabulary 67
Verbs 68
Sentences and phrases 68
Lesson 3:10: At the Hotel 69
Vocabulary 69
Verbs 70
Sentences and phrases 70
Lesson 3:11: At the Bank 71
Vocabulary 71
Verbs 71
Sentences and phrases 72
Lesson 3:12: At the Store 73
Vocabulary 73
Verbs 74
Sentences and phrases 74
Mini-Dictionaries 75
