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¡A que sí!, is a provocative post-intermediate Spanish conversation book that will motivate students to developcultural awareness and express opinions through oral and written discussion on a variety of timely, personally relevantissues. Each theme-related unit is supported by creative activities and engaging authentic materials, including dozens of new selections in literature, journalism, films, songs, and cartoons.

<I>La expresion de la pasividad en el sudoeste de los Estados Unidos y Mexico (1855-1950) examina el desarrollo de los dialectos hispanos del sudoeste de los Estados Unidos en un intento por establecer su similitud y/o diferencia con el espanol hablado en Mexico. Utilizando como lente un fenomeno linguistico - el uso de las expresiones pasivas - este libro investiga la evolucion del espanol en los estados del sudoeste estadounidense (California, Nuevo Mexico y Texas) y los compara con el espanol usado en Mexico DF. Valiendose del metodo utilizado por la sociolinguistica historica, y con la...

Provides coverage of over ninety thousand words and phrases and 130,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English, as well as sections on grammar, culture, and communication.

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.