Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

La historia e historiografía del español, así como de sus variedades, suponen un ámbito de estudios vivo, que evoluciona, que siembra interés en el investigador desde múltiples perspectivas, y que denota, además, todo lo mucho que aun queda por hacer. Se recogen en este volumen, una buena muestra de las diferentes posibilidades de estudio del español, así como de las múltiples fuentes documentales y recursos para su investigación. Esta muestra da cuenta delas investigaciones más actuales del campo y abarcan diversas disciplinas y metodologías. Los veinte estudios escogidos se...

The 5th edition of Mosaicos: Spanish as a World Language provides a fresh, 2lst-century perspective on language teaching and learning in the context of a dynamic introduction to the Hispanic world and its people. Rich contextualization of vocabulary combined with contextualized, functional grammatical instruction gives students an authentic, communicative introduction to the Spanish language. Deeply integrated culture and detailed listening, speaking, reading and writing practice bring all the pieces together for today's students of Spanish. This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound,...

English Spanish Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Spanish as their second language. Alex finds it hard to go to sleep, so he starts making up excuses. After reading a bedtime story, his father suggests planning a dream that he would like to see when he falls asleep. Find out where their imagination takes them as they plan his dream together. This bedtime story will help kids feel loved and relaxed, preparing them for a peaceful, sleep-filled night.

A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex, the ms. Biblioteca Nationale Braidense AD XIII 30 (ca. 1400), preserving Petrarch’s moral treatise De remediis utriusque Fortunae. The symbolism of the image refers not only to the diversification of society and the recognition of this diversity as a defining vision of human community, it also casts a special light on the position of the intellectual as a public dignity, as a...