México - Como México no hay dos

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...

The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.

Ensayos de arte y literatura cubana: Regino Boti, Lydia Cabrera, Eliseo Diego, Fina Garc a Marruz, Lorenzo Garc a Vega, Jos Lezama Lima, Virgilio Pi era, Jos Manuel Poveda, Cintio Vitier / Eduardo Abela, Cundo Berm dez, Mario Carre o, Carlos Enr quez, A

Es conveniente resaltar la importancia del estudio linguistico que realizaron los autores sobre el matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan unica comunidad de esta lengua que, rodeada de pueblos de habla nahua, ha conservado no solo el idioma sino tambien su cultura. Los resultados de la investigacion, que durante anos han llevado a cabo Escalante y Hernandez, permiten el estudio de procesos de larga duracion que tiendan el puente entre los matlatzincas historicos y los contemporaneos para conocer las particularidades culturales de este grupo etnico, que dominara otrora una amplia extension...