The Spanish Basic Course in Latin American dialect prepares students to function effectively in conversations. Pronunciations, inflection, and intonation are heavily stressed. The text material has accompanying phonetic spellings written in Spanish.
Produced originally by the Foreign Service Institute, this course is in a Latin American dialect and is intended to lead you to a minimum professionally useful level of proficiency. The Spanish Basic Course in 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.
Units 1 - 15 introduce gender present tense verbs whose infinitives end in "ar," "er," and "ir," the irregular verbs "estar," "se," and "haber," adjectives, possessives, present perfect and present progressive forms, and object pronouns.