Mexican Spanish

This new Beginning Spanish text is a brief version of the successful ¿Sabías que…?, perfectly designed for those programs that are interested in an innovative task-based approach but whose curriculum necessitates a briefer text.

La recepción entusiasta que Rayuela recibió desde su aparición, en 1963, proyectó a Julio Cortázar a un sostenido reconocimiento internacional. Su imagen de escritor quedó por siempre asociada a las ideas de ruptura, novedad, rechazo del realismo telúrico; y su novela, al estatuto de jalón de la literatura hispanoamericana. Rayuela renovó experimentalmente los cánones de la composición novelística al aunar de manera lúdica un gesto narrativo: la fragmentación, con una heterogeneidad de lenguajes, discursos, géneros y registros que, en su entrevero, producen un efecto de...

The objective of this book is to develop in the student the capacity to communicate in both oral and written forms, to analyze and infer the text that is to be presented, but also to use the necessary tools so that his learning will be significant and permanent, applying his knowledge, abilities and dexterity, to the solving of everyday problems of life in school and professionally, through the skills and disciplines learned within constructive frame work.

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...