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 ...

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.

A concise, useful volume containing more than 12,000 entries; includes more than 60,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms.

OLIVIA Y LOS MONOS is based on the true story of the Mishahuallí monkeys. Mishahuallí is a small village in the Ecuadorian Amazon where humans and monkeys share their home. SUMMARY Olivia is a very curious 16-year-old girl who likes to travel and who loves animals. She travels with her parents to Misahuallí. She is fascinated with the group of wild monkeys that live in the town. The monkeys approach and interact with tourists and the town's people. In OLIVIA Y LOS MONOS one after another amusing situation occurs with the monkeys. The story is told from Olivia's point of view. Ecuadorian...

Acompañado de un CD para adquirir soltura en la adquisición y pronunciación de vocablos y locuciones, este libro se dirige tanto a principiantes como a aquellos que cuentan ya con unos ciertos conocimientos de alemán. Al principio de cada unidad aparece un compendio de reglas gramaticales, fáciles de encontrar y consultar. Todas ellas le ayudarán a evitar los errores cuando tenga que hablar esta lengua, ya sea por teléfono o en persona, y a realizar los correspondientes ejercicicos. Un libro para tener siempre a mano, que le permitirá progresar en el estudio del alemán y comprobar...