Easy Spanish Reader - Quiero Vivir

"muy entretenido" -- ForeWord Clarion Reviews, 22.01.2014 "Un libro ilustrado absolutamente encantador para los más pequeños... que desde otro punto de vista puede llegar a ser 'mega grande'! Una bella historia con maravillosas ilustraciones. ¡Muy adecuado para niños a partir de los tres años!" -- xtme.de, 03.11.2013 "Perfecto para familias bilingües y guarderías [...] Una encantadora metáfora sobre las comparaciones de tamaño y el propio sentido de la vida" -- Boersenblatt.net, revista profesional para libreros alemanes, 06.02.2014 "Para niños que aman mirar páginas llenas de...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Este libro ofrece una minima introducción a la historia interna y externa de la lengua española. Presenta el desarrollo de la lengua en terminos de sus origenes latinos y los influjos extranjeros que han contribuido a su formación.

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish—upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students—who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help...