Las guerrillas contemporáneas en América Latina

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...

Written for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the Spanish language, this book integrates language-skills instruction with subject-matter content. It ensures a smooth transition from the practical knowledge of Spanish that is necessary to carry out daily tasks to a deeper comprehension of the cultures of the Hispanic world. The first five chapters are theme based and then the remainder of the book is organized around regions of the Spanish-speaking world. Each chapter focuses on a set of topics that are related to a broad cultural theme and fully integrated with the language...

Este volumen se ocupa de cuestiones de linguistica teorica y aplicada. Entre las primeras se aborda un rasgo universal de la mente y el lenguaje humanos: la necesidad de clasificar el mundo que nos rodea. Sirven aqui de ejemplo las categorias gramaticales de dos lenguas muy alejadas de las indoeuropeas: las clases nominales del mancana (una lengua de Senegal) y los clasificadores nominales del chino. Ademas, se trata tambien de la composicion de palabras en espanol mediante prefijos y de los gentilicios. De las segundas dan cuenta estudios sobre dialectologia canaria, traduccion, literatura...

Written by Venezuela's Minister for Culture, this memoir relates a personal vision of President Hugo Chavez and the reforms that are sweeping Venezuela today, describing the reasons for the changes, the transformation of Venezuelan society, and the importance of culture in Venezuela's development. Above all the book asserts the importance of revolutionary values and ethics as the basis for the political, social and cultural revolution in Venezuela.