Plazas

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story's major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.

Aprender un idioma extranjero a través de situaciones reales es, probablemente, la manera más segura de fijarlo en la memoria y poder utilizarlo con agilidad en el momento en que surge la ocasión. Con el CD audio, este libro se convierte en un instrumento muy útil para aprender francés de manera gradual y eficaz. Los diálogos y las tablas ayudarán al lector a memorizar fácilmente las palabras de uso común y las expresiones coloquiales, con lo que dominará el léxico y la fraseología esenciales que serán la base sólida de su futuro dominio del idioma. Las estructuras gramaticales...

Each student of Spanish, whether a native speaker or a second-language learner, invariably encounters inexplicable rules of grammar. The authors of Gramática española, draw on years of classroom experience to focus on such grammatical topics that cause the most problems for advanced students of Spanish, especially the difficult rules that explain syntax and its components. The text’s flexible organization allows for coverage of material in a manner best-suited to classroom objectives. In addition, thought-provoking and challenging exercises appear at different levels throughout each...

Includes Spanish version of Vita Secundi (Life of Secundus of Athens) by Vincent of Beauvais, and the Spanish version (Castellana) by Walter Burley (Gualterus Burlaeus) with the Latin version in his "Tractatus de vita et moribus philosophorum et de quibusdam dictis eorum" from his ms. in the "Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid Vit. 18-7 (Olim T. 9), fols. 50r-51v"--See page 33.