Textos literarios y ejercicios

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.

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story's major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.

Este libro representa una exhaustiva descripción del aragonés hablado en la zona del Biello Sobrarbe, área que se corresponde aproximadamente con el antiguo condado del Sobrarbe y que el autor ha encuestado de forma sistemática para su realización. Incluye asimismo un completo vocabulario, en el que se recoge el léxico general de la comarca, y abundantes testimonios de literatura de tradición oral. En palabras del autor, este libro puede ser “un instrumento útil más para profundizar en la configuración de una koiné, de un modelo culto de aragonés: única posibilidad de...