Vistazos: Un curso breve

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!

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...

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Texto íntegro de la vigésima segunda edición del Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española.

The Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook will have you talking Mexican Spanish as soon as you arrive. Its features include: comprehensive two-way word lists; dialogues for situations you'll encounter; tips on customs, etiquette and slang; detailed menu readers for food and drink; the rules of the language; and colour highlighting for fast access. Have a good trip - Buen viaje!