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Introducción a la lingüística española provides a systematic overview of key areas of Spanish linguistics, including the sound system, forms of words, syntactic patterns, the development of the language, and regional, social and contextual variation. Written entirely in Spanish from the viewpoint of contemporary descriptive linguistics, it employs a flexible approach that incorporates trends from different theoretical perspectives as well as the most recently published research.

Ideas is an intermediate or advanced reader that emphasizes the use of reading strategies to help students become more effective readers. It has a unique format, with all readings found in the six chapters of Parte I, which are designed to look like individual magazines on high interest topics such as pets, food, relations between the sexes, and so on. Reading strategies plus exercises, as well as lively activities that stimulate in-class conversation and composition topics make up Parte II. The entire text is in Spanish, including the reading strategies themselves. All readings--from...

Conversar en español B1 B2 es un manual destinado a universitarios que estudian español como segunda lengua y que, habiendo adquirido las competencias comunicativas básicas, necesitan reforzar la fluidez expresiva, el léxico y la adecuación a distintas situaciones cotidianas. Está dirigido a estudiantes y profesores de los niveles B1 y B2 del Marco Común Europeo de Referencia. La obra se fundamenta en el principio de que es posible sistematizar la enseñanza de los modelos conversacionales a partir de las funciones básicas que estructuran los discursos cotidianos. Los temas propuestos ...

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.