Curso nuevo, vida nueva (A1-A2)

Lectura graduada para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera. Nivel básico-intermedio (A2+).

A Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary containing over 600,000 entries, which provides usage examples, grammar sections, and conjugation tables for regular and irregular English verbs.

A combined text that meets the needs of second-year intermediate courses in Spanish. Part I reviews Spanish grammar, in Spanish, with oral and written exercises and brief cultural readings. Part II offers five complete stories and one play by Hispanic authors from Latin America, the U.S., and Spain. The program addresses the problem of both ``anglo'' and ``hispanic'' students.

This monograph focuses on modality in Spanish. It presents the theoretical approach to this category formulated by Bohumil Zavadil and, consequently, it analyses its possible application to Spanish. We concentrate on specific areas of the Spanish modal system where two modal meanings combine. Theoretical analyses are combined with corpus-based studies concentrating on the choice of mood or contextual interpretation of selected constructions. We veryfied that areas where two modal meanings meet are a natural part of the Spanish modal system and that the combination of modal meanings has...

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...