Correct Your Spanish Blunders, 2nd Edition

FAIRY TALE & FANTASY Join Alice as she follows the white rabbit into the amazing world of Wonderland, where anything can happen! Watch Alice change size, meet the Mad Hatter and his friend, the March Hare, talk to the smiling Cheshire cat, play a game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts, witness the strangest trial ever and enjoy never-ending adventures in the land of dreams! Dossiers: Oxford, A Great Invention: Photography, Victorian Sports

While the city of Valencia enjoys the Las Fallas festival, Sheriff Peralta begins to receive strange reports about the disappearance of Fallas girls. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.

This volume introduces basic concepts of linguistic theory illustrated with examples of Spanish linguistics.

<I>La expresion de la pasividad en el sudoeste de los Estados Unidos y Mexico (1855-1950) examina el desarrollo de los dialectos hispanos del sudoeste de los Estados Unidos en un intento por establecer su similitud y/o diferencia con el espanol hablado en Mexico. Utilizando como lente un fenomeno linguistico - el uso de las expresiones pasivas - este libro investiga la evolucion del espanol en los estados del sudoeste estadounidense (California, Nuevo Mexico y Texas) y los compara con el espanol usado en Mexico DF. Valiendose del metodo utilizado por la sociolinguistica historica, y con la...