Lexical borrowing and deborrowing in Spanish in New York City
by Rachel Varra
Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing. In particular, it presents empirical data obtained through quantitative analysis to answer the question of who is most likely to use English lexical borrowings while speaking Spanish, to address the impact that English has on Spanish as spoken in the city and to identi...
DE LECTOR A ESCRITOR is a process-oriented, reading-to-write approach for Spanish composition courses based on authentic texts as models for compositional analysis.
With a delightful mixture of laughter and love, fatalism and faith, the proverbs of Mexico capture the wisdom, spirit, and experience of a complex and colorful country. Over 100 authentic sayings -- or dichos -- are presented in this charming bilingual assortment. Compiled by a former writer for the Mexico City News, illustrated with dramatic artwork, and including a foreword by Gary Soto, the noted Chicano poet, this wise and wonderful collection will entertain, inform, and enchant readers bot...
Guia De Conversacion (Trilingual Phrase Guide)
by Calonge Santandreu and Angel Garralda Ortega
This comprehensive trilingual phrase book serves as a useful reference book for visitors/business travellers/students from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, Mainland China and Hong Kong. It covers a wide range of daily-life situations and is organized in three columns for quick and easy access.
Spanish Phrasebook for Medical and Social Services Professionals
by Ana C. Jarvis
These pocket phrasebooks provide students and professionals a handy reference for real-life and on-the-job situations. They contain vocabulary and phrases arranged alphabetically, specific to each worktext.
This updated language-learning guide, with a brand-new free audio app, helps you learn to speak Spanish in 15-minute visual lessons themed around common situations. With clear photography and illustrations, 12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons that combine vocabulary and grammar essentials about a range of themes, from socializing to doing business for the most user-friendly, accessible language guide on the market. The audio app, available for Apple (from the App...
Conversational Spanish Dialogues for Beginners and Intermediate Students
by World Language Institute Spain
?Te has sentido alguna vez como un verdadero tonto? !Pues, animo estimado amigo! Hay otros que han hecho cosas peores:Adan y Eva trajeron el pecado al mundo.Esau vendio su primogenitura por un tazon de sopa.Jonas huyo de Dios y termino en la panza de un gran pez.El primer libro de las 20 historias mas sobresalientes de la Biblia, Grandes necios de la Biblia da un vistazo a 20 personas en la Biblia que tomaron decisiones necias y sufrieron las consecuencias. Escrito con una retorica aguda y conc...
Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition
by Diane Engelhardt
A handy ESL phrase guide that helps you converse like a native English speaker-now enhanced via app with audio recordings of key expressions If you're an intermediate level speaker of English, you know that idiomatic speech, slang and other English phrases can create a barrier to conversing confidently in casual and work-related situations. In Perfect Phrases for ESL: Conversation Skills, Premium Third Edition you'll find a phrase guide that allows you to say the right words at the right time i...
For use in upper-level courses in Spanish Conversation and Composition, Spanish Conversation, and Intermediate Spanish. This collection of prose works and poetry by famous Hispanic authors features intellectually mature and appealing selections whose brevity and simplicity of style do not require adaptation, simplification, or abridgment. The text is designed to be used after the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary; these readings enhance language learning at any level.
La vida del Buscavida, por otro nombre don Pablos -- La vida del Buscón, llamado don Pablos -- Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado don Pablos, ejemplo de vagamundos y espejo de tacaños (versiones Z y B)
Contexto Latinoamericano No.2
Teach Yourself Holiday Spanish
This dictionary gives all the text of the Oxford Study Spanish Dictionary in mini format. Intended for use by English learners of Spanish, this dictionary will take the student through their years of study, from the first day they start learning Spanish right through to their exams and beyond. It is easy to use and to understand, and leads straight to the translation the student is looking for. BL35,000 headword entries and phrases BL40,000 translations BLMany examples to show how words are used...
Spanish Memory Book offers original mnemonic rhymes to assist in learning and remembering several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words.
Mira Los Dos Lados (Yellow Umbrella Books: Math Spanish) (Math - Spanish)
by Elena Martin
Haciendo Formas (Yellow Umbrella Books: Math Spanish) (Math - Spanish)
by Jennifer Vanvoorst
The enthusiasm and excitement surrounding the Olympics makes it an ideal topic for teaching Spanish. The Olympics 2016 - Spanish Topic Book contains photocopiable activities and games which include: Background information on Spain at the Olympics; Photocopiable flashcards; word searches, crossword puzzles and other word games and activities linked to the 28 Olympic sports; Activities to promote speaking, listening, reading and writing, including passages about sports, the Olympics and Brazil, su...