El paraguas blanco

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.

Este libro ha sido pensado para estudiantes de español que desean aprender nuestra lengua y, a la vez, adentrarse en la historia y la cultura de América Latina. El relato se basa en los textos y discursos de los personajes históricos, como también en los hechos tal como han sido expuestos y verificados por los historiadores más reconocidos. Las fotografías y los fragmentos de documentales proveen una aproximación directa a, en este caso, la imagen, la voz y la acción de Eva Duarte de Perón. Se incluye la versión escrita de todo el material audiovisual para una mayor comprensión. Si ...

Recounts the life and career of the Dominican slugger who sought the home run-hitting record, and discusses Dominican baseball and the previous and new record holders

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...