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Roberto Toledo, a teenager living in Guanajuato, is unable to get anyone in his family to talk about the disappearance of his grandfather. The arrival of Linda Toledo, a student from San Antonio, Texas, starts Roberto in search of the truth. What secret is the family hiding? Does he want to know the truth? Filmed in Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, and Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, this 10-episode video is appropriate for second-year Spanish students. Each episode is approximately nine minutes in length. The VHS package contains 5 cassettes and the DVD package contains 2 discs. Each package...

This collection of papers addresses the wide variety of questions that arise when Spanish (or any language) comes into contact with other languages. Which languages are used and under what circumstances? How do languages change and affect each other in a bilingual or multilingual environment? How do societal pressures, cultural stereotypes, and individual attitudes affect language use and development, or even result in the death of a language? Spanish in Contact is organized into three sections, examining contact situations in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. The authors look at...

Sonido y sentido lifts the learning of Spanish pronunciation for American English-speaking students to a new level, with support of an accompanying CD. Written in Spanish by a native speaker who is a leading figure in the field of Spanish phonology, this introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology will improve both the pronunciation and understanding of spoken Spanish by demonstrating the specific ways in which the sound pattern of Spanish differs from English. Notable in that it explains the why of pronunciation with specific information on how the sounds of Spanish are organized--it...

Conocer el nacimiento y la posterior evolución de la filosofía en el mundo heleno antes del advenimiento de Sócrates significa emprender un recorrido a veces intrincado pero siempre apasionante que se ve iluminado aquí con los amplios conocimientos históricos, filosóficos y filológicos de su autor, el prestigioso Olof Gigon. La admirable tarea exegética que Gigon desarrolla en esta obra nos permite disfrutar de una hilvanada evolución del pensamiento presocrático y contextualizar cada uno de los planteamientos filosóficos que se van sucediendo en la antigua Grecia. Remontándose en ...