Colloquial Spanish

Colloquial Spanish: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Spanish as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Spanish in a broad range of situations.
Each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. This third edition has been revised throughout to bring it up-to-date, reflecting cultural changes, and offering additional exercises, new vocabulary and updated dialogues.
Key features include:

• A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
• Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar
• An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises
• Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations
• Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in Spain
• An overview of the sounds of Spanish
• An answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues.

Colloquial Spanish is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

About this book
1 Encuentros
Meeting people
2 ¿De dónde eres?
Where are you from?
3 ¡Taxi!
Taking a cab
4 Direcciones
Directions
5 Viajando
Travelling around
6 Comiendo en un restaurante
Eating out
7 Una visita al médico
A visit to the doctor
8 Buscando piso
Flat-hunting
9 Al teléfono
On the phone
10 En la oficina
At the office
11 Problemas familiares
Family problems
12 Escribiendo a casa
Writing home
13 Un robo
A robbery
14 Esperanzas para el future
Hopes for the future
15 Una invitación
An invitation
Ready-reference grammar
Key to exercises
Spanish-English glossary
English-Spanish glossary