Say It in Spanish!

This retelling of the Mexican legend of Mother Moon provides a delightful and humorous explanation for why the moon changes shape. Children will enjoy the repetitive, predictable text and elaborate illustrations. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

Aprender italiano divirtiéndose En italiano, para decir ¡Buena suerte! a alguien, se le desea que un lobo vaya a comérselo (In bocca al lupo!). Para decir que un mediador ha tratado de complacer a ambas partes en conflicto, se dice que ha salvado “a cabra y repollos” (salvare capra e cavoli). ¡Memorice más de 250 modismos, proverbios y expresiones populares en italiano, y diviértase comparándolos con sus respectivas versiones en español!

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.

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

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