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This highly successful program offers a flexible, concise introduction to grammar and communication for students and professionals seeking a working knowledge of the Spanish language. Designed for one- or two-semester courses in Introductory Spanish, Basic Spanish Grammar offers a wealth of features and components that also make it ideal for college extension courses, adult and continuing education courses, and Spanish courses for professionals or special purposes. In six correlated manuals, students apply the structures presented in Basic Spanish Grammar to practical contexts and develop...

A series of texts for secondary school students to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Spanish. Includes information about the way of life of the Spanish and Latin American people.

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...

Se exponen los planteamientos teóricos sobre las relaciones de posesión, las características universales del poseedor y del poseído; además de un breve panorama sobre los mecanismos o recursos que utilizan algunas lenguas del mundo para señalar la relación que se establece entre poseedor-poseído, ello con el fin de ubicar tipológicamente el fenómeno de duplicación posesiva que este trabajo analiza. Se expone también lo que sucede en cuanto a la duplicación posesiva en el español de México y en el de otros dialectos americanos, ya que el fenómeno en estudio, al parecer, no es...