MI INGLÉS BÁSICO

Designed for introductory-level students, this communication manual develops practical vocabulary for everyday situations. The Fifth Edition corresponds in structure and content with Basic Spanish Grammar, 6/e, including a second Lección preliminar. In each lesson, essential vocabulary and grammatical structures are reinforced through realistic dialogues, questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities. The correlated audio program features up-to-date dialogues (paused and unpaused versions), vocabulary lists for each lesson, and Práctica orales corresponding to the review...

Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching languages. In fact, I have taught English as a foreign language for over forty years, all the way through grade school up to university level. One day, twenty years ago during Summer school, due to an emergency, the university where I was teaching English requested me to help them out the next day - substituting a teacher of Spanish who had fallen sick. I didn ́t give it a second thought ...¡¡¡¡ piece of cake!!!. Next morning , there I am, standing in front of a group of 20 enthusiastic and eager American teachers full of questions...

Este estudio se estructura en torno a tres temas principales. En primer lugar se considera el fenómeno de la interferencia lingüística como parte del contacto entre culturas, haciendo un repaso de las distintas nomenclaturas que se han utilizado y que se siguen empleando en este campo de la lingüística. En el siguiente capítulo, después de realizar un recorrido por las principales tipologías del préstamo lingüístico, se presenta la clasificación adoptada para el análisis de un corpus de más de un millar de galicismos del español que hemos recopilado. En la última parte se...

Spanish and English texts of the most loved and commonly used prayers are presented in large, readable type in an easy-to-follow, facing-page, parallel presentation. The English text appears on the left page, with the Spanish text directly across from it on the right. Besides the most common prayers (Hail Mary, Apostles' Creed . . .), this treasury of prayer includes the Ordinary of the Mass, prayers for confession and Communion, prayers of devotion, prayers for the sick and deceased, the Ten Commandments, the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, prayers from the ancient Hispanic liturgy,...