Synopses & Reviews
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Contractors and subcontractors . . . carpenters . . . plumbers . . . electricians . . . painters . . . and everyone else who works in today's construction industry-- If you need to communicate with fellow workers in Spanish, here's the help you've been looking for!
If you work in any of the building trades, and if you need to speak with and understand Spanish-speaking workers, this book and its accompanying audio compact discs are for you! You won't find tedious grammar rules to memorize. Instead, you're given useful sets of terminology, ready-to-use phrases, and the pronunciation of every word. The focus is on everyday words and phrases that apply to the building trades and to the related skills and professions.
Two Audio Compact Discs Enclosed
Synopsis
This book, with its two enclosed compact discs, has been prepared especially to aid communication among building contractors and subcontractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, heavy machinery operators and others in the construction industry, where both English-speaking and Hispanic personnel work together. Author William Harvey provides an informal, user-friendly approach to Spanish, concentrating on everyday words and phrases that apply to the building trades and to related skills and professions. True-to-life bilingual dialogues, presented in the book and dramatized on the compact discs, recreate work and work-related situations. The compact discs offer the added bonus of listening comprehension and Spanish word pronunciation.