This course in the Latin American dialect prepares students to function effectively in conversations. Pronunciation, inflection, and intonation are heavily stressed. The text material has accompanying phonetic spellings written in Spanish.Volume 1 (Units 1-15) introduces gender present tense of verbs whose infinitives end in "ar," "er," and "ir," the irregular verbs "estar," "ser," and "haber," adjectives, possessives, present perfect and present progressive forms, and object pronouns.Volume 2 (Units 16-30) presents supplemental readings, past tenses, irregular verbs, and reflexive pronouns.Volume 3 (Units 31-45) introduces nominalized verbs and adjectives, numbers, past progressive and present subjunctive verb forms, days of the week, months, and colors.Volume 4 (Units 46-55) drops the phonetic spellings, introduce past, past perfect and present perfect subjunctives, conditional tenses, the passive voices, and noun-forming suffixes.
