La comadre María

"Destinado a estudiantes que, partiendo de un nivel inicial, aspiran a un dominio practico del espanol comunicativo y a un acercamiento a la cultura de los paises hispanos. En dos niveles, describe el funcionamiento de la lengua y practica cuestiones morfosintacticas atendiendo a la realidad de su uso."

When a little town is affected by a terrible drought, the town's children spend the summer searching for signs of rain. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

A basic Spanish text for junior high school students including vocabulary, grammatical structure, dialog, cultural readings, and written exercises.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.