El paraguas blanco

This video program on DVD accompanies the Intermediate Spanish series and presents specially selected cultural topics relating directly to material covered in Civilizaci n y cultura. Featuring a mix of short film (NEW to this edition), authentic news clips, and other cultural footage, the video program spans the Spanish-speaking world and provides you with a wealth of cultural perspectives.

The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.

Seminar paper del año 2010 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 5.5, Universität Basel (Iberoromanistisches Institut - Hispanistik), Idioma: Español, Resumen: El motivo de la naturaleza americana aparece por primera vez en los libros de viajes, conteniendo descripciones del nuevo mundo colonizado (FRANCO 1975: 20). Por lo tanto, este motivo surge en la literatura con la colonización y, aunque parezca contradictorio, será ese mismo motivo del que se servirán los escritores criollos en el siglo XIX para proclamar la independencia. El objetivo de este...

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times