English-Spanish

This intensive course is expressly designed to lead the adult beginner to a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish. The course gives balanced attention to the four key language skills: the development of listening comprehension and speaking skills is supported by quality audio materials recorded by native speakers, while answer keys support written work and grammar-acquisition exercises, and facilitate independent study. Authentic written materials develop important receptive skills and encourage the transition to independent reading. - Based on a style of Spanish easily understood by most...

Gramática de la lengua quechua de la época de los Incas escrita por el abogado peruano José Dionisio Anchorena.

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

Una de las cuestiones más difíciles con las que tiene que enfrentarse la persona que quiere profundizar en el conocimiento del español es la relativa a los valores y usos de las distintas formas verbales. Este volumen representa, sin duda, un completísimo estudio de la cuestión a propósito de los tiempos y de las formas no personales. En él, efectivamente, después de señalar los distintos significados de tiempo como término lingüístico, se aborda el estudio de todas y cada una de las formas temporales, tanto desde el punto de vista más abstracto o del sistema, como, sobre todo,...