OLIVIA Y LOS MONOS

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.

Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is a 2-book/3-audio tape set designed to teach Spanish to public safety personnel with Anticipatory Learning Language (A.L.L.), a copyrighted learning method created by the authors. The A.L.L. technique considers how an individual acquires a language. The first introduction to language is sound. A.L.L. is practical in that it emphasizes speaking and listening in identifiable real life situations instead of punctuation, complex grammatical structures and syntax as traditionally taught. Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is designed to provide security and...

Access Spanish: A First Language Course provides a thorough grounding in all the skills required to understand, speak, read and write contemporary Spanish from scratch. This fully revised edition consists of 10 units, each of which includes Language Focus panels explaining the structures covered and Descubre el mundo hispano boxes providing cultural insight into the Spanish-speaking world. Learning Tips and Ready to Move On checklists help students to achieve a sense of autonomy, while the accompanying website gives direct access to additional listening, reading and speaking activities, plus...

Vos, tu, usted, vuestra merced son unos cuantos indicadores de la variedad de sistemas de tratamiento en espanol, junto con todo tipo de apodos, hipocoristicos, titulos y demas formulas nominales que, en su conjunto, se estudian desde diversas dimensiones en este amplio volumen. Participan en el cuarenta y dos autores de Europa y America para dar cuenta de los usos y sistemas de trato del espanol, segun determinaciones historicas, geograficas, estilisticas, comunicativas, pero, sobre todo, de identificacion y reconocimiento de los interlocutores en cada relacion social. Se incluyen...