El español al día

A glossary of terms to assist health aides in translating for Spanish-speaking populations. Other health workers at various degrees of professional skills may also find the document useful. The Glossary is arranged from English to Spanish. It contains words, sentences, idioms and colloquial expressions. For the person whose first language is English, the question format may not be too helpful. The chief benefit is a familiarity with the folk vocabulary, and rephrasing highly technical directions into words which the patient will understand. The concepts and terminology are simplified so that...

La asunción de la idea de argumento o actante ha llevado a la aparición de nuevos complementos que se distinguen del grupo en el que anteriormente estaban acogidos por el simple hecho de ser argumentales: algunos complementos circunstanciales van a pasar al grupo de los suplementos o complementos preposicionales; complementos indirectos dejan de serlo para ser dativos o CI2 y algunos otros argumentos, antes simples predicativos o complementos del nombre entran en un bombo que busca nuevos nombres con el derecho que le otorga su carácter argumental, ya sea en relación al sustantivo, al...

An introductory course with dialogues that introduce vocabulary and grammatical concepts, practice exercises, and word puzzles.

The left page shows English-speaking Peter and Roberta going on a shopping trip early in the morning. On the opposite page, Spanish-speaking Pedro and Roberta perform the same errand.