Las fallas de Valencia: Mucho más que un sueño

An elderly woman who uses the title 'Countess' to live a life of leisure and luxury refuses to sacrifice her lifestyle as she grows old. When she is unable to travel on her own, she convinces her shy and unadventurous nurse to accompany her on the trip of a lifetime. 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.

Sol y viento: En breve is an exciting new film-based introductory Spanish program that seamlessly integrates the feature-length film Sol y viento into the instructional and learning experience for both students and instructors. This brief version of Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2005) presents a briefer text that is easily managed for programs with fewer contact hours or as an intensive high beginner course. The movie Sol y viento, created specifically for beginning language learners, was filmed on location in Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The film tells the story of a ...

PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need a pen and paper to complete the exercises. Learn more than 1,000 of the most common and useful English phrasal verbs using the highly effective English for Everyone visual method. Phrasal verbs (two- or three-part verbs such as "put off," "put on," and "put up with") are incredibly useful but notoriously difficult to learn. English for Everyone: Phrasal Verbs uses the same combination of visual teaching and crystal-clear definitions as in the rest of the English for Everyone series to make one of the most difficult aspects of ...

Este estudio se estructura en torno a tres temas principales. En primer lugar se considera el fenómeno de la interferencia lingüística como parte del contacto entre culturas, haciendo un repaso de las distintas nomenclaturas que se han utilizado y que se siguen empleando en este campo de la lingüística. En el siguiente capítulo, después de realizar un recorrido por las principales tipologías del préstamo lingüístico, se presenta la clasificación adoptada para el análisis de un corpus de más de un millar de galicismos del español que hemos recopilado. En la última parte se...

Una de las escritoras laicas del siglo de Oro que siempre recibio favorable critica y ademas fue sumamente admirada en su tiempo, fue dona Ana Caro. Sin embargo, aunque los criticos e historiadores afirmaron que Ana Caro fue una prolifica escritora, solo se conservan dos obras dramaticas: "Valor, agravio y mujer" y "El conde Partinuples." Este estudio esboza la vida de Ana Caro, examina y discute extensamente ambas comedias y analiza la versificacion y la estructura interna de su obra."