Excerpt from Practical Spanish, Vol. 1: A Grammar of the Spanish Language With Exercises, Materials for Conversation and Vocabularies This Grammar has been written for the traveller and the business man as well as for the student. The subject and the mode of treatment are equally adapted for any of these three classes. The scheme of the book is as follows:- Part L begins with the Alphabet and concludes with the Pronouns. Part II. begins with tho Verb and closes with the Interjections. Part I., as comprised in the present volume, treats first of the Alphabet and the Article, and then proceeds to give elementary rules for tho Gender of Nouns, and the formation of Feminines and Plurals. A complete discussion of the Article and of the Noun is postponed to the second volume. Having disposed of these preliminary matters, the Author proceeds to put Exercises before the student, in order to familiarise him quickly with a number of ordinary phrases and expressions. In this way the learner will make far more rapid progress than if his attention were confined to the mere acquisition of words. He is first taught how to use the few words which he has already learued, and so gradually and almost insensibly led to acquire others. Each Exercise is preceded by a Vocabulary containing the words to be employed in it. The subjects are such as naturally present themselves in daily life, and many points of difference bo-tween English and Spanish life are incidentally explained. The Vocabularies do not include Verbs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.