Introducción a la historia de la lengua española

"Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!"They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of otherciudadesacross the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, veryfonihybrid of two different languages -- or are they sodiferente?Mira:lonchando:Having lunch. "I'mlonchando,I don't wanna talk to him now."yogur:Yogurt. "Este yogurdoesn't really hit the spot when you'relonchando.Maybe I need to order ajambergueand some fries."bacuncliner:Vacuum cleaner. "Aye!I think thebacunclinerjust swallowed my...

El italiano es uno de esos idiomas que por su proximidad geográfica y cultural con el nuestro muchas personas desean aprender. Sin embargo, esta similitud nos obliga a hacer un esfuerzo mayor, ya que el parecido de las palabras no siempre se corresponde con su significado exacto. Por este motivo, la autora ha puesto especial cuidado al tratar todos aquellos casos en los que las semejanzas en la sintaxis o el léxico permiten seguir un aprendizaje más rápido y eficaz, así como en los que pueden provocar error o confusión. El vocabulario, las reglas sintácticas, los modelos tomados de las ...

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

A mother, her four daughters, and a sea captain embark on a boat bound for the island of Madeira. When an accident befalls the boat, this seaside trip threatens to turn deadly. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.