¡Así se dice!, Level 2, Student Edition

Designed to help the reader become more proficient at communicating in Spainsh about the tourist trade and the hospitality industry.

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This intensive course is expressly designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking skills is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, while answer keys support written work and grammar-acquisition exercises, and facilitate independent study. Authentic written materials develop important receptive skills and encourage the transition to independent reading. - Based on a style of Spanish easily understood by most...

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.

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...