Vistazos Listening Comprehension

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 ...

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.

This third edition of PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR offers you a wide variety of exercises that put Spanish grammar into practice so you can understand better how the language is used today. Thoroughly updated, PRACTISING SPANISH GRAMMAR THIRD EDITION includes: a glossary that explains grammatical terms clearly, providing you with a useful reference guide to the tools of the language level indicators with all exercises to help you progress at your own pace translations for key words within the exercises so you can work without having to stop and refer to a dictionary answers to all the exercises ...

Mit der kubanischen Wirtschaftskrise entstanden neue literarische Gestaltungsprozesse nationaler Identitätskonstruktionen. Die vorliegende Analyse geht der zeitgenössischen Literatur Kubas nach, in der soziale, kulturelle und politische Paradoxe der post-revolutionären Weltanschauung zum Vorschein kommen und der Figur der „Insel“ bzw. „Insularität“ eine große Bedeutung für die Neukonfiguration der Nation zukommt. Die „Insularität“ drückt in literarischen Texten verschiedene Aneignungen des Raumes und somit auch eine Weltanschauungen aus. Die literarische Figur der...

Seminar paper del año 2008 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 2,3, Universität zu Köln (Historisches Seminar I - Abteilung für Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte), Materia: Simón Bolívar, Geschichte und Mythos, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La figura histórica de Bolívar en Latinoamérica es tan mitoresca que entre tantos mo- numentos que lo representan, incluso los pocos dedicados a otros libertadores, corren con- tinuamente el riesgo de ser confundidos con la figura de Bolívar. Parece ser que la política histórica latinoamericana ha...

En este trabajo la autora estudia seis obras de contenido americano basadas en las guerras de Arauco y en la figura de uno de los primeros gobernadores de Chile, Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza. La primera parte analiza los textos que sirvieron de base creativa a los dramaturgos. La segunda consiste en el analisis textual de las obras teatrales. Este muestra el sutil proceso evolutivo a traves del cual el tratamiento teatral del hecho historico - Arauco y la Conquista - contribuyo a crear la -idea- de America en la Espana de la epoca, e indica, mediante la reelaboracion de personajes y motivos, la...