La oruga viajera

Builds English grammar skills for Spanish speaking people. Shows how verbs in their many forms and tenses are used in conversation.

This intensive course is expressly designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking skills is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, while answer keys support written work and grammar-acquisition exercises, and facilitate independent study. Authentic written materials develop important receptive skills and encourage the transition to independent reading. - Based on a style of Spanish easily understood by most...

This Spanish-language jacket for the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary makes this dictionary an essential reference for Spanish speakers. All material is presented in both languages.

El presente libro constituye un estudio de las estructuras copulativas en español mediadas por los verbos ser y estar como expresión de dos modos ónticos. El enfoque es semiolingüístico y pone en funcionamiento un modelo dinámico en espiral que hace posible la ubicación sistemática de las diferentes construcciones de ser y estar, sean éstas predicativas, copulativas o perifrásticas, presentándolas como discontinuidades de un continuo. El resultado de la investigación demuestra la existencia de un esquema cognitivo y una estructura enunciativa específica para sendos verbos. Esto...