Approaching language details informally and with a minimum of classroom-style presentation, author and educator Harvey offers practical instruction in Spanish basics. The focus is on conversational Spanish for teachers, counselors, administrators, and other employees at schools where Spanish is the first language of many students. Two opening chapters present fundamentals of Spanish speech and word order, and familiarize readers with often-used words and phrases that relate directly to school situations. The two following chapters pertain to Spanish that is most useful for communicating with younger students (pre-school through elementary grades) and older students (middle and high school grades). Remaining chapters offer help for counseling in Spanish in issues relating to health care, career guidance, college assistance, educational administration, special-needs, and extracurricular activities. A Spanish-English and English-Spanish glossary is also provided to help educators find the right word or phrase for a variety of situations.

Spanish for Educators (English and Spanish Edition)

Harvey, William C.

Reference

B E S Pub Co

This brand new Level 2 book with optional audiocassettes picks up where the Level 1 program leaves off. This new intermediate program assumes some basic working knowledge of English on the learner's part, and offers informal, challenging exercises that will improve vocabulary, speaking ability and listening comprehension.

Ingles Para Latinos: Nivel DOS (English and Spanish Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Updated with a new verb list, more vocabulary, more key phrases, and expanded exercise sections, this book offers English-speaking doctors, nurses, and medical assistants some basic Spanish vocabulary to help them deal with Hispanic patients who speak little or no English. The book starts with pronunciation tips and offers advice on listening comprehension with special focus on words and phrases that are likely to be used in a medical setting. True-to-life dialogues recreate situations involving pregnancy, broken bones, pediatric care, heart and lung diseases, geriatric care, communicable diseases, drug problems, medical treatment of crime victims, and more.

Spanish For Health Care Professionals

BARRON'S EDUC SERIES

It's an informal and practical approach to conversational Spanish for English speakers who have no knowledge of Spanish but need to learn some basics for work in social services. Family counselors, members of the clergy, welfare and public benefits workers of all kinds, and just ordinary neighbors who start learning Spanish with help from this book will pick up frequently used phrases and enough of the language to ask questions, offer advice, and understand the replies from their Spanish-speaking clients and friends.

Outreach Spanish (English and Spanish Edition)

Here's an easy and informal language-teaching book intended especially for families with younger children. The book dramatizes a day in the lives of children, starting as they wake up in the morning and concluding that night at bedtime. More than 400 cartoon-style illustrations reinforce vocabulary retention and clarify meanings. Boys and girls pick up new words, phrases, and language skills as they are guided from their bedrooms (toys, clothing, numbers) and through the house (names of family members, rooms, furniture). In the kitchen they learn Spanish words for appliances and foods. Outdoors and down the street, they pick up words for workers, cars, trucks, buses, and more. At school they discover Spanish words for objects in the playground and classroom. Back home again and ready for dinner, they learn more Spanish words until bedtime.

Spanish Every Day: A Learning Adventure for Young Readers

Gilgannon, Denise

Revised and updated with new phrases and vocabulary, new questions and answers, and new tables presenting basic English verbs, this favorite language-learning program is for Latinos in the United States and Canada who need to develop a practical, working use of spoken English, and who want to learn quickly and informally. Author William Harvey bypasses the dull rules of grammar and takes the practical route by presenting a series of informal conversations by speakers who converse in normal idiomatic American English. Emphasis is placed on correct pronunciation, and many helpful tips are offered, including short-cuts to clear spoken English expression and comprehension. Amusing cartoon-style illustrations help to convey understanding of English.

Ingles para Latinos (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

This easy, completely informal language-learning book is focused to teach English to boys and girls whose first language is Spanish. It dramatizes a day in the lives of children, starting as they wake up in the morning, and then taking them through a full day of work and play all the way to bedtime. All words and phrases are presented in Spanish, English, and with phonetic pronunciation. Hundreds of cartoon-style illustrations reinforce vocabulary retention and clarify word meanings as they occur in various contexts. Kids pick up skill in informal English usage when they follow a full day's activity of boys and girls who are very much like themselves. (Ages 7-12)

Ingles Para Todos Los Dias: Una Aventura Del Aprendizaje Para Los Jovenes (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Every ESL student will want a copy of this brand-new book. It teaches everyday conversational "American" English by making abundant use of classic Americanisms, informal one-liners, and old-fashioned expressions still in common use. It also includes timeless proverbs, childhood rhymes, lyrics of traditional American songs, and well-known quotations from American writers. Metaphors and their informal meanings include phrases like "in the doghouse" and "if the shoe fits." There are also idioms of command, such as "pipe down" and "stay put." Words and expressions are grouped thematically in chapters, and citations come with both meanings and word origins. Every page is filled with questions about America and American English that the reader can answer as a way of evaluating his command of American-style English. Reading is made easy and pleasant with word games and humorous cartoons. Do You Really Know American English? is not a dictionary, but a virtual tour across America, offering informal history, cultural insights, and knowledge known to all Americans, but generally unfamiliar and often puzzling to people born abroad.

Do You Really Know American English?: How Truly American are You?

English as a Second Language

This updated language-learning book presents an informal, user-friendly Spanish course for non-Spanish speakers who need to learn fundamental words and expressions in Spanish in order to communicate with Latino employees in the household or workplace. This new edition keeps up with current social trends, taking into account the increasing frequency in which Anglos and Spanish-speakers converse, not only as employers and employees, but also as co-workers. Rather than emphasize dry rules of grammar, author William Harvey teaches informal, idiomatic conversational Spanish. Passages in the book recreate typical scenes in household or workplace with appropriate dialogue passages. This book can also be purchased as a package that includes three audio compact discs.

Household Spanish: How To Communicate With Your Spanish-Speaking Employees and Fellow Workers (English and Spanish Edition)

Written for intermediate students taking Spanish on a high school or college level, this book can be used in the classroom as a main text or as a textbook supplement. It covers every aspect of Spanish grammar and correct usage, beginning with verbs and analyzing verb tenses, the passive voice, reflexive verbs, verb formations in the subjunctive mood, imperative command verb forms, and uses of verb infinitives. Major topics that follow cover nouns, modifiers, and the other parts of speech, interrogative forms, words that express negation, feminine forms, demonstratives and possessives, pronouns, diminutive and augmentative word formations, and more. Contemporary idioms are interspersed throughout the text, and the book's many exercises give students plenty of solid practice. Cartoon illustrations throughout the book help to demonstrate points of Spanish grammar.

Complete Spanish Grammar Review (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (Spanish Edition)

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