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The Oxford Beginner's Spanish Dictionary is a brand new guide to learning Spanish. Designed specifically for native English speaking adult learners who are either learning from scratch or refreshing lost language skills, it offers an easy to use dictionary, extra help with vocabulary, and essential information on the Spanish-speaking world. The dictionary is exceptionally easy to use, because it moves away from the traditional dictionary layout. All main translations are preceeded by an equals sign so that they are instantly identifiable, and all parts of the entry are spelt out in full,...

Designed for use in advanced composition courses, this text helps students develop abilities in composition tasks that reflect the kind of writing students are generally asked to perform as Spanish majors and minors. This revision responds to the growing interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, to the findings of writing research, and to the helpful reactions of those who have used this best-selling textbook throughout the years..

This provocative and complete intermediate French language program offers selections from contempoary documents and media. Each chapter of this three volume program is cordinated thematically and linguistically with the others, yet each text may also be used independently. Ensemble: Grammaire offers a brief review of basic grammatical structures via the introductory chapter in a clear and concise format that prepares students for the introduction of intermediate grammatical topics throughout the volume. The grammar presentations are clear, concise explanations in English with contextualized,...

Los tres artículos que componen este libro dan testimonio de la influencia mutua que, a lo largo de siglos de contacto, se ha generado entre el español y el caló. En primer lugar, el estudio de los numerosos préstamos del caló en el léxico marginal español nos sirve para entender la posterior presencia de algunos de estos préstamos del caló en el español coloquial. En segundo lugar, el caló hablado por los gitanos palentinos demuestra que el caló, todavía vigente en algunas comunidades gitanas españolas, ayuda a potenciar la cohesión étnica del grupo que lo usa a la vez que...