Intermediate Spanish For Dummies Introduction As someone who has surpassed the beginning level of Spanish, you consider yourself rather proficient in the language and want to discover more. So, here you are, eager to jump up to a higher level and perfect your skills. That’s fantastic! Whether you’re planning a trip, engaging in business with Spanish speakers, or are just a lover of languages, Intermediate Spanish For Dummies will help you reach your goals painlessly and effortlessly as you enhance your Spanish language writing skills. When it comes to using a foreign language, you may be shy about speaking it, but I’m willing to bet that you’re much more intimidated by writing it. Writing demands a bit more precision. My main goal is to help you become more comfortable with your Spanish language writing skills. Intermediate Spanish For Dummies not only presents you with all the grammar you need to know to communicate on an intermediate level, but also provides you with clear examples and interesting and useful exercises that will help you hone your Spanish writing skills. I give you the opportunity to put what you’ve learned to work and to express your thoughts and ideas in writing. If you can finish the exercises in a flash, you know you’ve mastered the material well. Some exercises, of course, present more of a challenge and require additional attention and focus. That’s to be expected. Just keep in mind that after you finish all the chapters, you’ll be a full-fledged intermediate Spanish graduate! Feel free to brag to friends. About This Book Intermediate Spanish For Dummies is a refresher course, a reference book, and a workbook for people who have some experience with and knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish and want to take their knowledge to the next level. It serves as a logical extension and complement to the ever-popular Spanish For Dummies, by Susana Wald (Wiley). If you want to get “up to speed” with language structures so that you can communicate comfortably and proficiently, especially with the written word, this book is for you. Each chapter in this book presents a different topic that affords you the opportunity to practice your written communication skills by completing, or actually writing, e-mails, postcards, text messages, journal entries, and letters. I reinforce nuances of style, usage, and grammar rules every step of the way so that you learn and practice how native speakers and writers use the language. I also include plenty of examples to guide you through the rules and exercises and to expose you to colloquial, everyday, correct Spanish that native speakers expect to hear from someone using Spanish. Before you move on, I must reiterate an important point: This is a workbook! Don’t be afraid to write in it. Use your favorite pink highlighter or your trusty red pen to underline the points you want to remember. Don’t recite the exercise answers in your head! That doesn’t help you practice your writing skills. Put all the answers down on paper and commit to them before checking them in the Answer Key at the end of each chapter. This technique will help you get the most knowledge out of this book.

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