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¿Cmo se dice...? has successfully prepared and motivated over one million students to continue their study of Spanish. The program features a balanced, four-skills approach that stresses communicative competency and cultural awareness as well as the mastery of language structures. It remains one of the best-selling programs available today because it is flexible, easy to use, and adaptable to any teaching and learning style. Lesson-opening dialogues, available on video, provide an alternative, interactive way of presenting the lesson vocabulary and grammar and also reinforce new material...

El inglés es el idioma hoy más hablado, estudiado y extendido por todo el mundo como lengua materna, pero sobre todo como lengua franca y lengua extranjera. España no es una excepción. Este libro introduce al lector en un contexto tan sugerente como desconocido: el definitvo despegue de la presencia de la lengua inglesa en nuestro país durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Un hecho al que contribuirían decisivamente figuras del ámbito filológico, literario periodístico y docente del momento, como fueron Juan Calderón, los hemanos Luis y Santiago Usoz, o Pascual de Gayangos, cuya...

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

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...