Foundation Course in Spanish

A fast-moving international thriller set in Scandinavia, London, and southern Africa. A politician nearly dies in Stockholm, and secret agent Monika Lundgren chases the would-be killer. As she races across the world she meets a strange football team, a rock musician, and a madman with dreams of world power.

La historia e historiografía del español, así como de sus variedades, suponen un ámbito de estudios vivo, que evoluciona, que siembra interés en el investigador desde múltiples perspectivas, y que denota, además, todo lo mucho que aun queda por hacer. Se recogen en este volumen, una buena muestra de las diferentes posibilidades de estudio del español, así como de las múltiples fuentes documentales y recursos para su investigación. Esta muestra da cuenta delas investigaciones más actuales del campo y abarcan diversas disciplinas y metodologías. Los veinte estudios escogidos se...

En Marcha is an intensive course in Spanish for beginners. Systematic and comprehensive, it takes the student from beginner's to upper intermediate level in one year. Carefully graded exercises and expert grammatical explanations are combined with lively activities and an attractive presentation to develop the four key skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The material is organised in 8 units, each unit introduces new language and provides a variety of activities to practise that language, with clear instructions guiding the student and regular summaries of key points. The units ...

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.