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.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...

¿Tiene nivel de principiante en francés o necesita refrescar sus conocimientos del idioma? ¿Desea no solo hablar como un nativo, sino también entender perfectamente lo que le dicen? Bienvenido a Polyglot Planet. Le proporcionamos las herramientas adecuadas, la energía y la motivación para que comprenda y hable francés con soltura. Aprenda a hablar francés de manera casi instantánea con nuestras lecturas fáciles y grabaciones de Audios fáciles. Sin conocimientos previos de gramática ni de cómo se estructuran las frases, aprenderá a usar el francés cotidiano de forma coherente y...

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.

Offers eighty thousand entries highlighting Latin American Spanish, tables of regular and irregular verbs, and sections on numbers and common abbreviations