Los secretos de la Santería

A reader for your intermediate through early advanced Spanish students Legends from Latin America/Leyendas latinoamericanas contains 18 stories that chronicle approximately 2,000 years and includes Indian tales from before the arrival of Columbus, stories of the conquest and colonial period, and tales based on events from the 19th century, bringing Latin America s cultural heritage to life. The text is presented in simple Spanish and English so that students gain valuable reading skills in their new language with the support of their native language. The content questions that follow each...

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.

"Includes over 5,000 entries and 6,000 definitions of the most commonly-used Latin American words and expressions, with many examples to illustrate their use, and there is a Spanish and English translation for every entry. Includes all entries listed in the Spanish Royal Academy dictionary pertaining to...Latin America." Amazon.com viewed 8/12/2020.

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...