THE

REVISED OLLENDORFF METHOD

AN EASY SYSTEM FOR LEARNING
TO READ, WRITE, AND SPEAK

THE SPANISH LANGUAGE

WITH A SUCCINCT STATEMENT OF
THE ELEMENTS OF SPANISH GRAMMAR;
TOGETHER WITH TABLES OF ALL THE
DECLENSIONS AND CONJUGATIONS, AND
A COMPLETE LIST OF IRREGULAR VERBS

BY

M. VELÁZQUEZ AND T. SIMONNÉ

NEW YORK AND LONDON

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

KD 2 3 4 6 5

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

Printed in the United States of America

Conjugation of the Auxiliaries haber, tener, ser, estar

Peculiar Uses of these Four Verbs

The Regular Verbs

383-429

. 383-385

Third Class.

418

Fourth Class

419

INTRODUCTION

ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION

THE ALPHABET

THE Spanish alphabet consists of twenty-eight letters. Ch, ll, and rr, though double in form, are single letters, and may not be separated. W is found in foreign words only, and is pronounced as in English.

The student should not at first attempt to learn the Spanish names of the letters, but merely their sounds, or orthographical force.

The vowels have but one quality of sound.

A ordinarily has the sound of a in land; as, animal, año; but when it is followed by two consonants in the same word, or stands at the end of a word and is unaccented, it has a slightly broader sound, as a in father; as, martes,