Habla Español ¡Ya!

Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching languages. In fact, I have taught English as a foreign language for over forty years, all the way through grade school up to university level. One day, twenty years ago during Summer school, due to an emergency, the university where I was teaching English requested me to help them out the next day - substituting a teacher of Spanish who had fallen sick. I didn ́t give it a second thought ...¡¡¡¡ piece of cake!!!. Next morning , there I am, standing in front of a group of 20 enthusiastic and eager American teachers full of questions...

Roberto Toledo, a teenager living in Guanajuato, is unable to get anyone in his family to talk about the disappearance of his grandfather. The arrival of Linda Toledo, a student from San Antonio, Texas, starts Roberto in search of the truth. What secret is the family hiding? Does he want to know the truth? Filmed in Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, and Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, this 10-episode video is appropriate for second-year Spanish students. Each episode is approximately nine minutes in length. The VHS package contains 5 cassettes and the DVD package contains 2 discs. Each package...

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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 ...

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist der Aufstieg und Fall der theologischen Legitimierung der gehobenen Poesie, die sich ab Ende des 16. und im Laufe des 17. Jahrhunderts im Vizekönigreich Peru vollzieht. Der Höhepunkt dieser Legitimierung liegt in dem Entstehen einer „Academia Antártica“ (Antarktische Akademie) in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ihr Ende wiederum beginnt in der zweiten Hälfte desselben Jahrhunderts, wenn Gelehrte religiöser Orden, vor allem Juan de Espinosa Medrano und seine Texte zur Verteidigung der Dichtung und der Wissenschaften, diese theologische...