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Access Spanish: A First Language Course provides a thorough grounding in all the skills required to understand, speak, read and write contemporary Spanish from scratch. This fully revised edition consists of 10 units, each of which includes Language Focus panels explaining the structures covered and Descubre el mundo hispano boxes providing cultural insight into the Spanish-speaking world. Learning Tips and Ready to Move On checklists help students to achieve a sense of autonomy, while the accompanying website gives direct access to additional listening, reading and speaking activities, plus...

A través de una serie de ensayos escritos por autores y críticos de la talla de Vicente Quirarte, Carlos Monsiváis y José Emilio Pacheco, James Valender nos presenta el arte y el pensamiento de un hombre y poeta ejemplar, que aunque nació en Sevilla, casi podría considerarse mexicano: Luis Cernuda, el poeta español más rebelde de la generación del 27.

This second edition updates a course which has proven to be a perfect fit for classes the world over. Engaging content and a strong focus on grammar and vocabulary combine to make this course a hit with both teachers and students. Popular course features have been refreshed with new content, including the imaginative reading and listening topics, 'Culture in Mind', and 'Everyday English' sections. New for the second edition is a DVD-ROM with the Level 2 Student's Book containing games, extra exercises and videos featuring the photostories' characters as well as a 'Videoke' record-yourself...

The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis of a broad corpus of texts close to the pole of immediacy, the study analyzes the factors that have determined this variation at various points in time.