An Easy Introduction to Spanish Conversation / Containing all that is necessary to make a rapid progress in it

Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena

PART I. A SYNOPSIS OF THE CASTILIAN LANGUAGE.

PART II. A VOCABULARY OF WORDS NECESSARY TO BE KNOWN .

PART III. FAMILIAR DIALOGUES DIALOGOS FAMILIARES .

PART IV. MODELS OF COMMERCIAL LETTERS, and c. Modelos de Cartas de Comercio, and a .

CONTAINING

ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE A
RAPID PROGRESS IN IT.

PARTICULARLY DESIGNED

FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE LITTLE TIME TO STUDY,

OR ARE THEIR OWN INSTRUCTORS.

By M. VELAZQUEZ DE LA CADENA,

PROFESSOR OF THE SPANISH; EDITOR OF OLLENDORFF’S SPANISH
GRAMMAR, NEW SPANISH READER, ETC. ETC.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 & 551 BROADWAY.
1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
By D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.

PREFACE.

Multum in parvo is the object of this small book; in which the student will find all the elements necessary to enable him in a very short time to enter into a conversation on the most usual topics.

For this purpose, and in order that he may understand the questions put, or the answers given to him, should they be expressed in words different in tense or number from those contained in the dialogues, and also to afford him the best means to vary them himself, it has been deemed expedient to prefix to the vocabularies a synopsis of the Spanish language. The learner is earnestly desired to study it attentively, so as to become perfectly familiar with the conjugation of the verbs; a thorough knowledge of which will render his progress easy, sure, and speedy.

Persons unaccustomed to commit tasks to memory, will do well to begin by learning daily a set number (say five) of nouns, adjectives, or verbs, and as many phrases as they can remember well; repeating always the English before the Spanish. Such exercise being steadily pursued for a month, the student will have acquired an aggregate of more than five hundred of the words most frequently used in common intercourse. This plan has been often tried, and its results have constantly exceeded the most sanguine expectations.

Should the student wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of the Spanish, even without the assistance of a teacher, he may do so by studying Ollendorff’s New Method, by M. Velazquez and T. SimonnÉ, published by D. Appleton & Co., No. 443 Broadway.

This work will also be found very useful for the younger classes of learners, as an introduction to Ollendorff, or any other Spanish grammar, as it contains in a few pages, and exhibits in the plainest manner, the elements necessary to enable them to make a very easy and rapid progress in the study of this language.

New York, June 1st, 1849.

CONTENTS.

PART I.
A SYNOPSIS, ETC.
		PAGE
	The Letters	7
	Accent	10
	Noun—Number	ib.
	Gender	ib.
	Case	11
	Augmentative and Diminutive Nouns	ib.
	Adjectives	12
	Comparative	ib.
	Superlative	13
	Pronouns	14
	Verbs	16
	Conjugation—Simple Tenses	17
	“ Compound Tenses	23
	Auxiliary Verbs	25
	Idiomatical Tenses	27
	Place of the Pronouns	28
	Verbs affirmatively and negatively conjugated	ib.
	Passive Verbs	ib.
	Pronominal Verbs	29
	Gerund	30
	Verbs that alter their radical letters	31
	Remarks on the Subjunctive	ib.
	Participle	32
	Verbs that have two Participles	ib.
	Adverbs	33
	Prepositions	34
	Conjunctions	35
	Interjections	36
	Abbreviations	ib.
PART II.
A VOCABULARY, ETC.
	The Numbers	37
	Moneda corriente	39
	Of Heaven and the Elements	40
	The Weather and Seasons	ib.
	Days of the Week and Months	41
	Holy Days	ib.
	Ecclesiastical Dignities	ib.
	Eatables	42
	Covering of the Table	ib.
	For Fast Days—Fish	44
	For the Dessert	ib.
	Conditions of Man and Woman	46
	Clothes and Articles for Dressing	ib.
	Articles for Riding	47
	Clothes for Ladies	ib.
	Parts of the Human Body	48
	The Five Senses—Ages	49
	Qualities of the Body	ib.
	Defects of the Body	50
	Studying	ib.
	Musical Instruments	ib.
	Parts and Furniture of a House	51
	What is found about the Chimney, in the Kitchen,
	and in the Cellar	52
	The Servants of a House	53
	What is found in and about the Door,
	and in the Stable	54
	The Garden—Flowers, Trees, &c.	54
	Temporal Dignities	55
	Officers of War—The Army	56
	Fortifications	ib.
	Professions and Trades	57
	Defects and Imperfections	58
	Good Qualities—Diseases	ib.
	Bird and Quadrupeds	59
	The Country—The City	60
	Colors—Metals	61
	Commercial Terms	ib.
	Collection of Verbs	63

PART III.
DIALOGUES.
I.	Saluting, &c.	69
II.	To pay a Visit	70
III.	To dress one’s self	71
IV.	The Tailor	72
V.	To breakfast	73
VI.	To speak Spanish	74
VII.	Of the Weather	75
VIII.	To write	76
IX.	To buy	78
X.	To inquire after News	79
XI.	To inquire after any one	82
XII.	For a journey	83
XIII.	Supper and Lodgings	85
XIV.	To reckon with the Landlord	86
XV.	On a Voyage by Sea	87
XVI.	On board of a Vessel	89
XVII.	On a Journey in a Litter, or on Mules	90
XVIII.	At the Dinner Table	92

PART IV.
COMMERCIAL LETTERS, ETC.
	First Letter	95
	Second Letter	96
	An Invoice	97
	Third and Fourth Letters	98
	Letter of Recommendation	99
	A Draft	ib.
	Endorsement	100
	Notes	ib.

EASY INTRODUCTION

SPANISH CONVERSATION.

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