El andaluz como entidad lingüística: estado de la cuestión

Using mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer original mnemonic rimes that are by turns amusing, ironic, pathetic, sentimental, and sardonic to help students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary. Included are mnemonic jingles for 700 of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and consonants. This ...

No tenga miedo, el francés está a su alcance. El camino por tierra hacia Europa pasa por Francia, pero no sólo es eso ya que el francés también está cada día más presente en nuestras relaciones comerciales y personales. Aprender este idioma se convierte cada vez más en una necesidad y resulta relativamente fácil para un español, ya que ambos idiomas tienen su origen en el latín. A partir de situaciones y diálogos cotidianos, este curso le permitirá profundizar en las estructuras gramaticales y conocer un buen número de esquemas, ejemplos y fraseología que le ayudará a...

Beginning Medical Spanish. Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility is designed for medical professionals and supporting staff with no prior knowledge of Spanish who need to develop oral language skills and cross-cultural sensitivity to establish relationship-building communication with their Spanish-speaking patients. This hospital-tested program teaches how to connect with patients of limited English-speaking ability and offer them the quality care they seek. Role-play activities allow students to develop their oral proficiency in meaningful contexts and contribute to a creative and dynamic...

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand grammatical concepts, describes health-related cultural competence and presents opportunities to discuss issues of concern about the health of Hispanic communities in the US and abroad.