Charlas de Sobremesa

The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

“ This book contains English and Spanish words, you can read with great ease and comfort with its extremely simple and plain appearance.”

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spain. The bilingual autonomous regions Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands are equally covered in the book, making it an indispensable reference not only for scholars of the Romance languages and of Basque but also for specialists in other disciplines such as cartographers, geographers, historians, archeologists, etc.