Latinoamérica

"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...

Offers beginners a proven, step-by-step method of teaching oneself to speak Spanish with conversational ease

La autora nos ha donado una impresionante investigación sobre Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. La biografía abarca un detallado análisis de su obra y de su entorno social e histórico. El texto se compone de cuatro partes: Ansias de infinito, Dos amores: Cuba y España, Tula a la vanguardia de su tiempo y Dimensión religiosa de la Avellaneda. Pieza importante para los estudiosos y amantes de la literatura cubana; devela sin alardes de erudición la personalidad de una artista que se adelantó a su época y que representó, con sus limitaciones, a una de las primeras feministas...

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...