Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential...

Aprende a usar todos los tipos de condicionales en inglés, además de las estructuras hipotéticas con wish. Las frases condicionales son una parte importante de la gramática del inglés, muy útiles para aquellas personas que quieren subir de nivel hasta un intermedio o avanzado. Escrito por el autor de varios libros super ventas en USA, España y América Latina, este libro explica en un español claro y sencillo, todos los tipos de condicionales que existen en inglés, con muchos ejemplos de cada uno. Zero Conditional, primer condicional, segundo condicional, tercer condicional y mixtos, ...

Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching. I hold a BA from the BUAP in the teaching of English,and a Masters in the teaching of Spanish as a 2nd.language, from the University of the Americas, Puebla. I have been teaching English at all levels, from Basic, all the way to the preparation for the TOEFL for over forty years, at different places, such as: The American School in Puebla, the University of the Americas; and the BUAP, and, of course at - English/Español Training Center, Consequently, I ended up opening a bilingual school to teach both languages. On doing this, I...

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structure—whether shared knowledge determines the linguistic form or a given linguistic structure imposes a specific set of information. From an Ibero-Romance perspective, this book supports the necessity of a transversal approach to the grammar/pragmatics interaction.