Foundation Course in Spanish

French course for Spanish speakers A course that doesn't involve learning by heart, ideal for beginners and for a refresher course. Learners can start to speak French within two months, gaining an intuitive knowledge of grammar. Within six months, learners can take part in everyday conversation with a vocabulary of 1,500 to 2,000 words. The recordings include all the texts in French for each lesson and the translation exercises from the book. These progressively more challenging texts have been recorded by professional native speakers. - Lively, useful dialogue - Carefully-constructed...

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

La presente obra contiene once artículos con distintos enfoques teóricos y metodológicos, en los que se abordan variados campos relativos a los estudios sefardíes, es decir, a esa fascinante variedad de cuño hispano que es la lengua judeoespañola y a su producción literaria, en cuyos textos se plasman aspectos de su cultura, de sus tradiciones y de su historia social. Los estudios se basan en obras producidas mayoritariamente en el ámbito de los Balcanes, a lo que hay que sumar la ciudad de Viena, y con un arco cronológico que va desde el siglo XVIII al XX. En cuanto a los temas,...

This glossary should be exceptionally useful to translators, teachers, and business professionals who interact with those in Cuba where the number of new terms and new meanings for old terminology continues to grow. (Foreign Language Dictionary)