Dictionary of Spoken Spanish

The goal of this book is to provide tuition and quidance for professionals, professionals-to-be and other interested parties regarding the correct way to express themselves in English in the professional world. In order to make the most of it and do so in a confortable way, the starting level of English knowledge should be at least B1 (intermdiate). These materials are intended, firstly, to support learning within and outside the classroom and, secondly, to enable the student to acquire his/her own the strategies and techniques necessary both to understand and produce a wide range of formal...

Seminar paper del año 2009 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1, Universität Wien (Zentrum für Translationswissenschaften), Materia: Kulturkompetenz Spanisch Lateinamerika, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Cuando el día de Año Nuevo de 1994 apareció en escena un grupo de rebeldes autodenominado Ejército Zapatista de Liberación, las interpretaciones de los sucesos no tardaron en llegar. La rebelión armada en el estado mexicano Chiapas recordaba desde el primer momento a un capítulo de la historia mexicana, que había marcado el país como ningún otro...

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This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...