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...

What you need to know - now! Designed for beginning language students (no prior knowledge of Spanish is assumed), for whom success in the field is vitally important,Spanish for Health Care prepares you to use “real-life language” on the job—immediately. A focus on practical language learned in context makes Spanish accessible for the health professional.

Completely revised and updated, this dictionary contains a wealth of idiomatic expressions, covering Latin American Spanish. All headwords are in blue for quick reference. Full grammar details are included, as well as Spanish conjugation tables.

El manual está concebido para hispanohablantes que cursan los primeros años del aprendizaje del alemán, tanto para la consulta en cuestiones específicas, como para el aprendizaje sistemático. Contiene explicaciones claras y sencillas y proporciona ejemplos útiles con traducción al español. El manual, además,contiene enlaces a ejercicios interactivos que cubren todos los temas gramaticales. Contenido: PARTE A: LAS CLASES DE PALABRAS El verbo Las formas del verbo en el presente Las formas impersonales del verbo – infinitivo y participios (lachen, lachend, gelacht) Las formas de los...

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...