Fraseología, Variación y Traducción

A pesar de que nos defendamos más o menos en inglés, todos, en mayor o menor medida, tenemos dudas a la hora de elegir la palabra, expresión o construcción adecuada de una frase. "¿Cuál es la diferencia entre specially y especially?", "¿Es further o farther?", "¿En serio que en inglés no se dice footing?", "¿Por qué los ingleses dicen sorry todo el tiempo?", "¿Los phrasal verbs son demasiado informales para un texto escrito?", "¿Qué demonios es un phrasal verb?"... El British Council, familiarizado desde hace varias décadas con las dudas que se plantean a los estudiantes que...

Presents English definitions of over four thousand Spanish language idioms and colloquialisms, grouped according to Spanish key word, and includes example sentences, matching English expressions, and a Spanish-English index.

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El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designed for intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides students with a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which to expand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por- trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite- rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can be read in one sitting.