Spanish Idioms

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

El recurso de punto de referencia para el aprendizaje de español en el siglo 21 Ahora la 10ª edición, Dicho y hecho: Beginning Spanish ofrece un programa de lenguaje innovativo el cual ha sido diseñado para estudiantes de hoy en día. Este enfoque de aprender español es fácil de implantar y a través de los años ha demostrado ser innovatico y muy efectivo. La gramática es presentada con explicaciones precisas, simple, con gráficos claros y abundantes frases de ejemplos que establecen conexiones inmediatas entre formas y el uso en la comunicación. Ofrece un conjunto de sistemas de...

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 book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...