El Portuñol. Un fenómeno como dialecto de contacto

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 ...

Santeria es la religion de una mezcla de magia primitiva y catolicismo ahora practicada por unos cinco millones de americanos hispanos.

This glossary should be exceptionally useful to translators, teachers, and business professionals who interact with those in Cuba where the number of new terms and new meanings for old terminology continues to grow. (Foreign Language Dictionary)

Seminar paper del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,6, Universität Osnabrück, Materia: Hauptseminar: La novela picaresca, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Este trabajo trata sobre el posfranquismo y la posmodernidad en Espana. El tema abarca en particular las características de la novela espanola después del régimen de Franco hasta los anos noventa. El fin de la dictadura militar provocó una ruptura política en Espana. Hay que preguntar si hubo también una ruptura literaria y social. Desde el punto de vista del siglo XXI es importante saber...