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TopicLiterature & LanguageLearning SpanishHow to Understand and Speaka New LanguageCourse WorkbookProfessor Bill WordenThe University of AlabamaSubtopicLanguage Learning

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Bill Worden, Ph.D.Associate Professor of SpanishDirector of Spanish ProgramsThe University of AlabamaDr. Bill Worden is an Associate Professor of Spanish and the Director ofSpanish Programs in the Department of Modern Languages and Classicsat The University of Alabama. Dr. Worden received his A.B. in Mathematicsfrom Dartmouth College in 1985 and subsequently taught high school Spanishfor five years in Illinois and Massachusetts. After studying in both Vermont andMadrid, he received his M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1996.As a doctoral student at Brown University, Dr. Worden was awarded the David and Ruth Kossoff Prize for Leadershipin Language Teaching by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teachingby the Graduate School. He also was chosen by fellow graduate students to give the address at the Graduate Schoolcommencement ceremony. In 2002, Dr. Worden received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown.Since 2002, Dr. Worden has taught a wide variety of courses at The University of Alabama, ranging from IntroductorySpanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition to undergraduate and graduate courses in 16th- and 17th-centurySpanish literature. He has directed doctoral dissertations on colonial Latin American literature, early modern Spanishliterature, and 20th-century Latin American literature.Dr. Worden’s main area of research is the work of Miguel de Cervantes, especially his novel Don Quixote. Dr. Wordenhas published in the fields of early modern Spanish literature, colonial Cuban theater, and 19th-century Spanishliterature. He also has published on pedagogical topics, including how to teach Spanish at the middle school and highschool levels and how to help undergraduate students make connections to Don Quixote. In addition, Dr. Worden is anaward-winning speaker who has lectured on such subjects as the prose of Cervantes, early modern Spanish poetry,and approaches for helping beginning language students become comfortable speaking Spanish.For a number of years, Dr. Worden served The University of Alabama’s Department of Modern Languages andClassics as the Director of the Spanish Language Program and was responsible for supervising all graduate teachingassistants and instructors of introductory- and intermediate-level Spanish courses. In 2013, the Alabama Association ofForeign Language Teachers selected Dr. Worden as the winner of the annual Outstanding Foreign Language TeacherAward for Postsecondary. Dr. Laura Rojas-Arce, author of the workbook and coauthor of the speaking activities, grew up in Costa Rica,where she studied psychology as an undergraduate student at the Universidad Hispanoamericana in Heredia. Shecompleted her doctoral studies with a focus on contemporary Central American literature and received her Ph.D. fromThe University of Alabama in 2013. Dr. Rojas-Arce is an Instructor of Spanish at The University of Alabama, whereshe teaches courses ranging from Introductory Spanish and Advanced Grammar and Composition to courses on LatinAmerican literature. i

Table of ContentsProfessor Biography iScope 1Workbook Introduction 2Workbook Families 3Lesson GuidesLESSON 1Introduction to the Spanish Language 4LESSON 2Definite Articles and Nouns 10LESSON 3Subject Pronouns and the Verb Ser 15LESSON 4Regular -ar Verbs in the Present 21LESSON 5Indefinite Articles and Numbers to 100 27LESSON 6The Verb Estar and Numbers over 100 33LESSON 7Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Present 39LESSON 8The Verb Ir in the Present 46LESSON 9Expressing Time in Spanish 52LESSON 10Expressions Using the Verb Tener 59LESSON 11Verbs like Hacer and Interrogative Words 66LESSON 12The Verbs Saber and Conocer 72LESSON 13Stem-Changing Verbs 78ii

Table of ContentsLESSON 14Ver, Dar, and Other Irregular Verbs 83LESSON 15The Present Progressive 89LESSON 16Direct Object Pronouns and Adverbs 95LESSON 17Affirmatives, Negatives, and Demonstratives 101LESSON 18More Affirmative and Negative Expressions 106LESSON 19Indirect Object Pronouns 111LESSON 20Double Object Pronouns 116LESSON 21Reflexive Verbs 122LESSON 22Talking about the Past: Acabar and Hace 128LESSON 23Talking about the Past: ¿Desde Cuándo ? 133LESSON 24Formal Commands and Unequal Comparisons 138LESSON 25Informal Commands 142LESSON 26Superlatives and Equal Comparisons 149LESSON 27Regular -ar Verbs in the Preterite 153LESSON 28Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Preterite 157LESSON 29Irregular Verbs in the Preterite 162LESSON 30Next Steps in Improving Your Spanish 166iii

Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New LanguageSupplemental MaterialGrammar Reference 172Los glosarios / The Glossaries 178Glosario por tema / Glossary by Topic 180Glosario de cognados / Glossary of Cognates 196Glosario español-inglés / Spanish-English Glossary 202Glosario inglés-español / English-Spanish Glossary 219Resources for Further Study 236Photographic Credits 238iv

ScopeThis course introduces learners to the Spanish language and the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.Because the course is designed for learners with no previous experience with the language, the lessons beginwith the building blocks of Spanish: the alphabet, the proper pronunciation of consonant and vowel sounds,and greetings and responses to greetings. As you move forward in the course, you will be introduced to a variety offundamental grammar topics, ever-increasing vocabulary lists, and cultural information that will teach you about thecountries in the world where Spanish is spoken and help you understand how to use the grammar and vocabulary youwill learn about in their proper cultural context.The purpose of this course is not simply to teach you about Spanish, but rather to develop your language skills sothat you can communicate successfully in the language. For that reason, the course includes a variety of componentsdesigned to allow you to practice and improve your abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding spokenSpanish.This course exposes learners to a variety of cultural aspects in the Spanish-speaking world, both in the video lessonsand in the Cultural Readings that are found in the workbook. In terms of the grammar and vocabulary presented inthe 30 lessons, this course covers the equivalent of what is taught in a first-semester Spanish course in college. Youwill find extensive grammar and vocabulary information in the various sections of the workbook. In addition, you mightwish to consult any standard introductory Spanish textbook for reference.Throughout the course, you will learn more than a thousand of the most commonly used words in Spanish and becomeacquainted with a number of important cultural aspects of the Spanish-speaking world. In terms of grammar, you willlearn how to form the present tense of all verbs, as well as the present progressive construction, which is used totalk about something happening right now. You will be able to talk about future events in two different ways and touse several expressions that talk about past events. Moreover, you will learn how to conjugate and use one pasttense—the preterite tense—for all verbs. Your ability to express yourself with verbs will be accompanied by a growingcompetence in using, for example, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs—all the necessary linguistic tools that will allowyou to communicate successfully in Spanish. This course offers the requisite linguistic and cultural knowledge that willallow you to make the necessary first steps toward achieving communicative competence in Spanish. 1

Workbook IntroductionWelcome to the workbook for Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New Language. Theexercises included here are designed to help develop your reading and writing skills in Spanish while youpractice the vocabulary and grammar presented in the lessons. This introduction briefly explains how thisworkbook fits in with the other components that accompany this course so that you’ll know how best to make use of allof them to help develop your Spanish skills.When you finish watching one of the 30 lessons, you should next listen to the audio glossary, which will give you thepronunciation and definition of all the new vocabulary words. Then, it will be time to practice what you’ve learned. Thespeaking activities that follow the audio glossary are designed to help you improve your listening and speaking skills,and the exercises in this workbook will allow you to practice your reading and writi

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