Vistazos Listening Comprehension

A multi-part telenovela which presents the vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions of Spanish in a natural, conversational way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Tells the story of Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past. Her quest takes her to Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

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 ...

Albahaca se encuentra en una extraña y nueva maceta donde conocerá a nuestras parlanchinas plantitas. Ellas creen que saben mucho, pero cuando se trata de animales, no tienen ni idea. Una suposición incorrecta seguida por otra les llevará a meterse en un gran lío. ¡La próxima vez puede que no sean tan afortunados! Esta historia ilustrada, que distribuimos de forma totalmente gratis, es para niños bilingües y estudiantes de Alemán con un nivel básico o intermedio que quieran divertirse leyendo un texto paralelo en Alemán y Español. El libro está dividido en dos partes. En la...

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 ...

Seminar paper del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 2-, Universität Salzburg (Romanistik), Materia: La novela picaresca en Espana e Hispanoamérica, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La novela picaresca alemana es todo lo contrario del tipo de novelas que hasta entonces fueron publicadas. Describe un mundo real y actual. Los protagonistas son mendigos, estafadores y prostitutas. También los escenarios se trasladan más bien hacia la calle, las plazas, los campos y los puertos que hacia el palacio. Este tipo de novela enseña la parte oscura del país:...

This advanced Spanish grammar text, written with a strong linguistic perspective, is intended both for upper level grammar courses as well as for introductory courses in Spanish linguistics. It focuses in particular on those rules of the Spanish language that explain syntax and its components, especially those that are traditionally difficult for students of Spanish. The flexible organization of the text will allow the instructor to cover chapters (and material within chapters) in a manner that best serves his/her curricular objectives. In addition, the combination of mechanical and creative...