Toponimia De Espana / Toponymy of Spain

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.

In this book you will find two novellas in English paired with their Spanish translations. Due to the nature of translating and the differences between languages, the translations will not be an exact match to each other. Sometimes the wording between the two languages will be very similar, but in other places the wording will be quite different. You can use this book as a learning tool to comparatively study English and Spanish, learning from both the differences and the similarities. One way to use this book is to take different colored pencils to circle verbs or underline nouns and compare ...

El mundo de los héroes y heroínas celtas toca prácticamente a su fin después de la Batalla de Gabhra. En esta batalla Finn y sus guerreros los “Fianna” son prácticamente aniquilados y es también el momento en el que irrumpe con fuerza la ideología cristiana que lleva consigo el final de la cultura pagana. También sus leyes, como son las leyes Brethon, pasarán poco a poco a mejor vida, dejando en su lugar unas nuevas leyes que en apariencia se basan en la doctrina cristiana, como es la abolición de la esclavitud, pero que en realidad serán aplicadas por unos señores feudales...

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...