Pasajes: Literatura

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.

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...

Excerpt from Coa, Jerga de los Delincuentes Chilenos: Estudio y Vocabulario Las manifestaciones primarias de las jergas hay que buscarlas en los apodos, que nacen mu chas veces enel seno de la familia. No hay duda que toda colectividad, toda aso ciación ...propende a tener una jerga, en la cual sus individuos gustan de entenderse, especial mente delante de extraños, por cautela algunas veces, por comodidad otras, y a falta de razones más calificadas, por divertirse con la perplejidad de los no iniciados. A procurarse estos modos de decir los lleva, un poco inconso1entemente. About the...

This text is uniquely designed for both heritage- and non-heritage learners of Spanish composition and conversation at the advanced-intermediate levels and above. Taking a process-based approach with an emphasis on academic writing, Palabra abierta progresses from more familiar writing genres such as reportage to more academic essay assignments, and concludes with the research paper.