En marcha An Intensive Spanish Course for Beginners

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...

Letras Hispánicas en la Gran Pantalla is an innovative textbook for advanced students of Hispanic studies, which merges the studies of canonical literary works and their film adaptions. Students are guided through key literary masterpieces spanning from the Renaissance to the present day while, at the same time, interpreting their film versions. This parallel approach encourages students to develop their analytical skills as they master the terminology of contemporary studies in literature and cinema. Exploring complete works by both male and female authors and directors from Argentina,...

Seminar paper del año 2002 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: bestanden, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Romanistik), Materia: Hör-/Sprechübung 2) a): Analisis de textos de prensa, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Amores Perros – Celebrada, elogiada y a la vez criticada ampliamente, la obra primera del mexicano Alejandro González Iñárritu logró cosechar varios premios a nivel internacional (Festivales de Cannes, Edimburgo etc.). Con razón ? En este trabajo intentaremos descubirlo a manera de presentar un breve resumen de la película, algunas...

La rica tradición épica castellana, de la que dan abundante testimonio las prosificaciones de las crónicas medievales, alcanzó tempranamente su cota más alta con el "Poema de Mio Cid". En su prólogo, José Jesús de Bustos Tovar examina los orígenes de la épica castellana, analiza la datación y autoría del manuscrito y estudia su estructura temática y técnica literaria. Lejos del tópico que pretende encarnar en el Cid un inexistente espíritu nacional, el poema «es ante todo la historia de un hombre que recupera su honra por el esfuerzo de su brazo, es decir, la historia de un...