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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...

Offers full developmental sequences in reading, orthography, writing, and grammar. Written by some of the best-known and best-loved authors in the Spanish-speaking world as well as up-and-coming authors. Also includes content questions and theme suggestions.

Pascual Duarte, campesino extremeño hijo de un alcohólico, nos cuenta su vida mientras espera su propia ejecución en la celda de los condenados a muerte. Víctima de una inexorable fatalidad, Pascual Duarte es un ser primitivo y elemental dominado por la violencia, única respuesta que conoce a la traición y al engaño. Pero esa siniestra apariencia no es más que la máscara que oculta su incapacidad para luchar contra la maldad de los demás y la desvalida impotencia que alberga en el fondo de su alma. La familia de Pascual Duarte ha ganado con los años fuerza y dramatismo y su...

Designed for use in advanced composition courses, this text helps students develop abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing students are generally asked to perform as Spanish majors and minors. This revision responds to the growing interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, to the findings of writing research, and to the helpful reactions of those who have used this best-selling textbook throughout the years..