Notes from Spanish Texbooks I Have Used
¿Qué tal? An Introductory Course
By Thalia Dorwick, Ana María Pérez-Gironés, Marty Knorre, William R. Glass and Hildebrando Villarreal (McGraw-Hill, Inc., Fourth Edition, 1983)
Before I went to study in Guatemala, I found the textbook I used quite a few years back when I took a Spanish class at a local community college. I think it was a well-known and popularly used textbook but I don't know if it still is or not. Anyway, I reviewed the entire book and took notes summarizing the key grammar points so I could have them with me while I traveled (the book is quite heavy). Here I present them to you in hopes that they may help you review the grammar as well.
Table of Contents
Notes from Spanish Step by Step by Charles Berlitz
These are the notes I took while reading the book, Spanish Step by Step by Charles Berlitz. Chapters/topics incldue:
- When to use the written accent (‘)
- On being introduced
- ¿Habla Ud. español?
- Spanish courtesy
- Ordinal Numbers
- After the half hour
- Requests and Orders
- A choice for “here” and “there”
- The personal a
- Hombre – “Man”
- Y becomes “e”, “o” becomes “u”
- Plural of family names
- “Pero” and “sino”
- Beber-tomar
- Tan
- Position of pronoun objects
- Pues, así
- “Qué” as an exclamation
- Conmigo
- Lo with a adjective
- “Want” or “would like”
- Reflexive and passive
- The –ero suffix
- No es molestia
- “Tu” the familiar “you”
- “Tu” – with negative command
- “Quedar” and “quedarse”
- ¡Que se divierta!
- Verbs following de
- Encontrar
- Darse cuenta
- “Could” & “might”
- En la calle
- “Ought” and “should”
- El Imperfecto
- “Al” and the infinitive
- ¡Figúrese!
- Solo-sólo
- A long name: an easy tense
- An action that will have happened
- Fulano
- El subjuntivo
- The imperfect subjunctive
- Suppositions
- Suppositions that never happened
- The infinitive with the perfect
- Vosotros
- Adverbs
- Miscellaneous
- Selected Vocabulary and Phrases
Searched in vain for Por V Para . Is it anywhere?
Try these:
https://www.dadoque.com/grammar/confuse/#PorvsPara
https://www.dadoque.com/notes-from-qu%c3%a9-tal-por-or-para/