The key to learning the Spanish language is the ability to conjugate Spanish verbs. This 6-page laminated guide offers easy-to-read tables of conjugations for the 15 verb tenses and moods, with the changes bolded for quick reference. Sixty verbs and their meanings are included, with the irregular tenses and moods listed for each verb. Using the ......
When it comes to legal matters, lawyers and their Spanish-speaking clients fully understand that proper communication is crucial when working on a particular case. Our 3-panel (6-page) guide can help by providing a thorough, up-to-date listing of the most important phrases and key wordsaas well as Spanish translationsawithin the legal field. Our ......
A QuickStudy Reference Tool for School, Work & Language Barriers
So much knowledge of the Spanish language in so few pages at an unbeatable price. These durable coated pages will stand on their own with our built in easel for ease of reading and reference. Hundreds of pages of book facts expertly authored, edited and designed to fit into 21 pages. Find answers easier and faster in a great looking package. The ......
This best-selling textbook guides advanced students through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their ......
A Crisis of Identity explores the construction of identity and society's influence in four Spanish plays and discusses parallels to these works in popular culture. Through close reading and analysis covering race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, the author uncovers what lies behind the mask of each play's characters.
The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors ......
Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States addresses for the first time how receiving heritage classroom instruction affects Spanish speakers on multiple levels, including linguistic, affective, attitudinal, social, and academic outcomes.
Outcomes of University Spanish Heritage Language Instruction in the United States addresses for the first time how receiving heritage classroom instruction affects Spanish speakers on multiple levels, including linguistic, affective, attitudinal, social, and academic outcomes.
Religion, Feminism, Slavery, Politics, and Economics in the First Modern
Anatomy of Liberty in Don Quijote de la Mancha presents five major facets of liberty as they appear in the first modern novel. Analyzing the novelist's attitudes towards religion, feminism, slavery, politics, and economics, the author argues that Cervantes should be considered a major precursor to history's greatest liberal thinkers.
Indagaciones is a postintermediate Spanish textbook that introduces students to a wide variety of visual, audio, and written texts and teaches critical textual analysis in Spanish through a cultural studies approach. Deepening and enhancing students' knowledge of the expression of culture within Latin America, Spain, and U.S.-Latin@ areas, ......
For use with children ages 4 to 6 years, the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment was developed to identify phonological and/or language impairment in bilingual children and English language learners using a standardized protocol, and differentiate between a delay in English language acquisition and a true language disorder.
Introduccion a la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX
This advanced Spanish textbook and Latin American literature anthology guides students through the critical analysis of fourteen literary and filmic texts published between 1889 and 1995. It introduces them to twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture, and builds their textual analysis skills through examining the theme of identity.
First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does the bear... How will ......
Informed by the latest research in the field of second language acquisition and written entirely in Spanish, this book responds to the central questions that lie at the heart of learning Spanish as a second or foreign language. Each chapter examines the linguistic challenges and pitfalls involved in Spanish-language learning.
Informed by the latest research in the field of second language acquisition and written entirely in Spanish, this book responds to the central questions that lie at the heart of learning Spanish as a second or foreign language. Each chapter examines the linguistic challenges and pitfalls involved in Spanish-language learning.
Guides the advanced student through complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This title promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language in order to write more effectively and confidently.
Provides a panoramic view of research trends, develop probabilistic models of grammar, and investigate the impact of language contact on pronoun expression. The book is divided into three sections. It features views of experts on the topic of language variation in Spanish.
With BarCharts' new 3-panel study guide on the AP Spanish exam, a student's performance should reach a 3, 4, or 5 on this challenging AP exam. Students and teachers will be given effective strategies, organized according to the exam itself with tips and help in each section to avoid pitfalls and problem areas. Focus is on the skills needed to ......
Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century
What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and ......
New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing, and drawing of Federico Garcia Lorca. This book establishes the historical, cultural, and biographical context in which Lorca encountered scientists and their work, and studies the writing and drawing ......
What if the goddess Athena, who sprang fully-grown from Zeus's head and denied she had a mother, became aware of the compelling existence of her other parent? What if she discovered that her mother, Metis-first wife of Zeus and "wiser than all gods and mortal men," according to Hesiod-was swallowed by her father and continued to impart her wisdom ......
Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975-1995)
Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain's trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyzes the translation "boom" of U.S. literature that marked literary production in Spain after Franco's death, and the central position that U.S. ......
This book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de soledad, Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortazar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English ......
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture including ......
Perfeccionamiento del espanol por medio de la traduccion, segunda edicio
Provides advanced learners of Spanish with hands-on manipulation of grammatical, lexical, and cultural detail through the practice of translation (traduccion). This book includes: current events, new exercises, and expanded instructions containing Spanish texts to be translated into English as well as English texts for translation into Spanish.
Suitable for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship, this title offers an overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. It addresses the central role of education within the field.
A comprehensive introduction to the internal and external history of the Spanish language from its Indo-European ancestry to the present-day language of over 400 million people. It examines the phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical changes that characterize the evolution of Spanish from its Latin origins.
Introduccion a la historia de la lengua espanola es una introduccion completa a la historia externa e interna de la lengua espanola desde sus origenes indoeuropeos hasta la lengua moderna de mas de 400 millones de personas. Los autores escudrinan los cambios fonologicos, morfologicos, sintacticos semanticos y lexicos que caracterizan la evolucion ......
How to Use William Bull's Visual Grammar of Spanish
Suitable for teachers looking for a way to show students how grammar produces meaning, this title illustrates grammatical contrasts in Spanish. It includes illustrations that clarify difficult-to-understand points of grammar such as ser vs estar, subjunctive vs indicative, and preterite vs imperfect.
Explains the logic behind more than 3,000 frequently used verb phrases and combinations that make Spanish speech sound native. This book includes a definition of the phrase including its register, synonyms, antonyms, complementary expressions, grammatical patterns, and examples of how the combinations are used in easy and difficult structures.
Enables English speakers with no prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese to develop the basic communication skills and cultural knowledge needed to visit Brazil and to function in a work environment in which Portuguese is spoken.
A comprehensive historical, social, and linguistic overview of Spanish in contact with other languages in all of its major contexts - in Spain, the United States, and Latin America.
Offers a comprehensive analysis of a variety of crucial issues in the phonology and morphophonology of various dialects of Spanish. This book includes margin notes to highlight key points and a glossary of constraints. It includes study questions, lists of the most influential sources for each chapter, and topics for further research.
