Vvelo! Beginning Spanish

This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Grammatical explanations are given in English to facilitate comprehension. Numerous excercises help improve oral, written, and vocabulary skills. The contextualized exercises focus on contemporary situations students are likely to encounter. With updated literary and cultural readings, "Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation. New sections provide hints on the "art" of writing and rules for punctuation and...

The Pasajes series is one of the most widely used and highly respected programs for intermediate Spanish courses in North America. As in previous editions, Pasajes is a multi-volume component program. Pasajes, Fifth Edition, consists of three volumes--a review grammar, a cultural reader, and a literary reader--that are coordinated by theme and by language, chapter by chapter, across all three books. The result is a very flexible program that can be used in any combination and thus is easily adapted to suit a wide variety of instructors and intermediate courses. The Fifth edition of Pasajes...

The EMS Translator Field Guide, Spanish Edition allows the provider to simply point to Spanish questions and explanations, rather than requiring him or her to learn the language or pronounce the words phonetically. When the provider needs to obtain more information from the patient about his or her medical condition, the provider selects a question they wish to ask from a list of queries written in English and then simply points to the corresponding question in Spanish. The Spanish-speaking patient then needs only to answer "yes" or "no" to the questions posed to him or her. The English and...

Seminar paper del año 2011 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 2,3, Universität Trier (Romanistik), Idioma: Español, Resumen: Este trabajo pretende dar una idea del desarrollo histórico del español. En particular, se examinará la creación de un área de idioma español en la región del Río de la Plata y su ulterior desarrollo en la Argentina, el Uruguay y el Paraguay. Si se quiere tratar estas áreas lingüísticas, es insuperable llamar la atención sobre el problema de la superposición de las fronteras nacionales, tribales y lingüísticas. Las...