Habla Español ¡Ya!

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...

Designed for introductory-level students, this communication manual develops practical vocabulary for everyday situations. The Fifth Edition corresponds in structure and content with Basic Spanish Grammar, 6/e, including a second Lección preliminar. In each lesson, essential vocabulary and grammatical structures are reinforced through realistic dialogues, questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities. The correlated audio program features up-to-date dialogues (paused and unpaused versions), vocabulary lists for each lesson, and Práctica orales corresponding to the review...

Quick Minds is an exciting six-level course for young learners in Spain that enhances your students' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their language skills. The Activity Book mirrors the content of the Pupil's Book. It practises the core vocabulary and grammar and consolidates skills development, with a variety of exercise types: reading, matching and colouring, puzzles, etc. 'Do that!' sections provide opportunities for speaking, while the Review and Culture sections provide extra listening practice and 'Get it right!' pages cover problem areas for Spanish speakers....

"Fue la primera novela escrita por Miguel Angel Asturias y sigue siendo la mas famosa y la mas leida. Ocupa un lugar privilegiado entre las 'novelas de la dictadura', que han llegado a constituir un genero en la literatura hispanoamericana. Esta novela representa una exploracion de la condicion humana percibida a traves del lente distorsionador de una oscura dictadura centroamericana, y es una de las primeras novelas que intenta y logra una revolucion del lenguaje literario, explotando la relacion entre el mito y el lenguaje hallando el modo de revolucionar el aspecto formal del texto dentro...

Quizá sea la fonología, junto con la sintaxis y la pragmática, la disciplina que ha gozado de mayor vitalidad a lo largo del último cuarto del siglo XX. Ello quiere decir que, en este período, las propuestas abundan, se sucenden, se solapan y, por lo general, coexisten durnate bastante tiempo. El surgimiento y desarrollo de la fonología generativa, con los distintos modelos de ella derivados, y el mantenimiento, sobre todo en Europa, de los planteamientos estructuralistas sin duda han contribuido a este florecimiento. Sobre tales premisas, esta obra trata de presentar un panorama...