Spanish Words and Phrases You Need to Know

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...

An easy-to-use, thoroughly updated bilingual resource features more than 115,000 entries and 160,000 translations of modern terminology, idiomatic expressions, and slang in both Spanish and English, along with quick reference tables of irregular verbs and coverage of Latin-American Spanish. Original.

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

Thinking about the limitations, the conditions for possibility, the obstacles and the need for a therapeutic dialogue is one of the key necessities in the field of family therapy. This collection of essays presents their authorsb particular perspective to create a dance of ideas about the clinic of couples, family and destructive divorce from the central axis of a conceptual framework.