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PROGRESS FROM VOCABULARY TO PROFICIENCY Vocabulary words let you communicate basic ideas, but proper grammar enables you to communicate concepts, feelings, and subtle nuances much more effectively. Now mastering Spanish grammar is easier than ever. Whether you're a student, a business professional who wants to sound more professional, or a future tourist who doesn't want to sound like one, Webster's New World Spanish Grammar Handbook is an indispensable reference. It helps you hone your Spanish writing skills and sharpen your verbal expression with features such as: Fifteen parts covering all ...

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish -- upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students -- who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help students...

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)

En este libro, por poca atención que se ponga al leerlo, se verán ejemplos de épocas puristas del autor y otros de su posición más tolerante, más realista, producto de los años que lleva dedicado al oficio de aconsejar sobre el buen uso del español. En la primera parte, en la colección de pequeños artículos en los que se comentan palabras o giros que, en principio, son o eran censurables, se mezclan textos escritos desde 1993 hasta el 2000, y hay algunas recomendaciones, algunas censuras, que no tendrían razón de ser si se escribieran hoy; pero se han mantenido, precisamente,...