Basic Spanish Grammar (Spanish Edition)

Drawn from the successful Basic Spanish Grammar, 6/e, and accompanying career manuals, The Basic Spanish Series offer a flexible, concise prologue to Spanish grammar and communication. The series has been enhanced and updated to better address the needs of today's students, pre-professionals, and professionals who need a working knowledge of Spanish. The core text, Basic Spanish, provides the essential grammatical structures needed for communicating in Spanish. The six communication worktexts, Basic Spanish for Getting Along, Basic Spanish for Business and Finance, Basic Spanish for Medical Personnel, Basic Spanish for Law Enforcement, Basic Spanish for Social Services, and Basic Spanish for Teachers, encourage students to use and practice the grammar learned in Basic Spanish. The worktexts present realistic situations a student will encounter in everyday life when needing to communicate in Spanish as well as a variety of authentic workplace situations likely to be encountered by professionals, with attention to specialized vocabulary of each profession, dialogue completions, role-plays, and realia-based activities.

The Basic Spanish Series offers flexibility for an array of academic, professional, and adult education settings. A comprehensive supplements package enhances the program and offers students and professionals helpful tools for developing their language skills outside of the classroom.

• Early introduction of essential communicative concepts enables students to begin speaking immediately.
• Clear, concise grammar presentation lists the grammar topic in English and Spanish, followed by explanations in English, language models in Spanish with translations and charts, and Vamos a practicar exercises for reinforcement of the material.
• Practical vocabulary presentation contains lists of chapter vocabulary clearly divided into the following categories: Cognates, Verbs, Adjectives, and Other Words and Expressions—all containing translations with the exception of cognates.

Ana C. Jarvis, a native of Paraguay, was born in Asuncion and attended school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of California, Riverside, in 1973. Presently an instructor of Spanish at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, Arizona, Dr. Jarvis previously taught at Mesa Community College, the University of California, Riverside, San Bernardino Valley College, Brigham Young University, and Riverside City College. In addition to authoring numerous Spanish textbooks, she has published several short stories in Spanish. In 1988, she was chosen "Faculty Member of the Year" at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.