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Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching languages. In fact, I have taught English as a foreign language for over forty years, all the way through grade school up to university level. One day, twenty years ago during Summer school, due to an emergency, the university where I was teaching English requested me to help them out the next day - substituting a teacher of Spanish who had fallen sick. I didn ́t give it a second thought ...¡¡¡¡ piece of cake!!!. Next morning , there I am, standing in front of a group of 20 enthusiastic and eager American teachers full of questions...

FACETAS is a brief and multi-faceted intermediate Spanish program ideal for use in one-semester courses. It incorporates relevant literary and cultural readings and integrates two kinds of video. The first is a specially-shot sitcom featured in every lesson. The second showcases three original short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. FACETAS' interactive, student-friendly approach focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts, giving students a rewarding learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency.

Conocer el nacimiento y la posterior evolución de la filosofía en el mundo heleno antes del advenimiento de Sócrates significa emprender un recorrido a veces intrincado pero siempre apasionante que se ve iluminado aquí con los amplios conocimientos históricos, filosóficos y filológicos de su autor, el prestigioso Olof Gigon. La admirable tarea exegética que Gigon desarrolla en esta obra nos permite disfrutar de una hilvanada evolución del pensamiento presocrático y contextualizar cada uno de los planteamientos filosóficos que se van sucediendo en la antigua Grecia. Remontándose en ...

Presentación 1. Español soy, estoy, doy, voy. Un intento de explicación morfológica 1.1. Introducción (p. 11) – 1.2. Teorías (p. 14) – 1.3. Cronología (p. 17) – 1.4. Los criterios morfológicos (p. 21) – 1.5. La persona verbal yo en otras lenguas romances (p. 26) – 1.6. La persona verbal yo en la Península Ibérica (p. 38) – 1.7. Signo cero (p. 45) – 1.8. -i como morfonema (p. 48) – 1.9. Fuentes de -i (p. 49) – 1.10. Transferencia de morfemas. El ejemplo de las lenguas en contacto (p. 54) – 1.11. El cambio morfonémico (p. 60) – 1.12. Tiempo y mecanismo de...