Puntos de vista

Three self-teaching study units to gain the basics of conversational Spanish to help you communicate with Spanish-speaking students, and their parents.

Forty-seven reading passages from the world of journalism and advertising, on a wide variety of topics, suitable for beginning and intermediate students of Spanish and for native speakers who need remedial reading.

A multi-part telenovela which presents the vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions of Spanish in a natural, conversational way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Tells the story of Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past. Her quest takes her to Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...