Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

Los cuentos incluidos en este libro se caracterizan por los temas centrales que se mezclan de forma natural y coherente. Entre esos temas resaltan la trágica inocencia juvenil, sueños que no se cumplen y la desesperante dicotomía de identidad de una persona que ha sido arrancada de sus raíces. Cada una de estas situaciones es proporcionada por el estado psicosomático de su personaje. Por los acontecimientos de la vida, forjados por fuerzas externas, algunos de estos personajes son llevados a su autodestrucción y otros a vivir sus vidas bajo una perpetua contaminación mental. En el...

"Cambridge English Empower is a general English course for adult and young adult learners that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from Cambridge English Language Assessment ..."--Publisher description.

With culturally thematic chapters and a traditionally organized grammar sequence, this is a solid and complete introductory course. It is ideal for instructors who want a balanced, contemporary course but not necessarily an innovative methodology. Although chapter changes in the new edition include an overall shortening, a trimming of grammar detail, and adding more visually-based activities, the basic methodology remains unchanged.

Impartial, modern, and friendly, this book introduces readers to the civilization and culture of Latin America-- from the most obscure beginnings to the present--and at the same time provides them with opportunities to improve their listening, speaking and writing skills. Comprehensive and chronological in approach, it offers well-researched coverage that goes beyond historical facts to include aspects of modern interest, sociology, economy, politics, philosophy, literature, arts, and communication. It covers the traditions in all of Spanish America--"Mesoamerica" and the Caribbean, as well...