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Now learn real Mexican lingo with this book and CD guide to contemporary idioms and expressions of street Spanish as heard in modern Mexico and Latin America! Read and hear the way the teens and sophisticates, drug dealers, cholos, outlaws and in-laws, pimps and street walkers all talk in their real lives. Whether you want to use street terms, avoid them, or just understand what you hear, this program will clear up the confusion. Translators, travelers, and serious students of Spanish no longer need to thumb through dictionaries seeking answers, to no result. More than just a book of word...

* 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...

This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of Spanish. Ideal for Spanish revision.