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What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

An easy-to-use, thoroughly updated bilingual resource features more than 115,000 entries and 160,000 translations of modern terminology, idiomatic expressions, and slang in both Spanish and English, along with quick reference tables of irregular verbs and coverage of Latin-American Spanish. Original.

La investigación llevada a cabo en este trabajo tiene por objeto el análisis de páginas Web que permiten que un estudiante de Español pueda practicar el vocabulario de dicha lengua. El presente estudio se centra en la elección de una serie de páginas, de acceso totalmente gratuito, de las cuales se describen sus principales aportaciones al aprendizaje de lenguas así como todo aquello que se considera que contribuye faborablemente al proceso de aprendizaje de palabras nuevas.

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