Vicente Blasco Ibañez

Improve your Spanish language skills with authentic texts . The best way to bring the grammar of a language to life is by experiencing it in context, as it is actually used by native speakers and writers. Designed for the intermediate and advanced student, Spanish Grammar in Context puts Spanish grammar into context for you with an array of engaging texts, including newspaper articles, song lyrics, literary texts, and even transcriptions from TV talk shows. . Each chapter focuses on a specific element of grammar. A short text is followed by an explanation of the relevant grammar and several...

"Oye Broder, Get a Load of These Palabras!"They're all Spanglish words -- and you can hear them on the streets of Miami, Los Angeles, Nueva York, and lots of otherciudadesacross the country where English and Spanish seem to blend and bend into a mind-boggling, veryfonihybrid of two different languages -- or are they sodiferente?Mira:lonchando:Having lunch. "I'mlonchando,I don't wanna talk to him now."yogur:Yogurt. "Este yogurdoesn't really hit the spot when you'relonchando.Maybe I need to order ajambergueand some fries."bacuncliner:Vacuum cleaner. "Aye!I think thebacunclinerjust swallowed my...

Esta obra colectiva recoge buena parte de las comunicaciones y las ponencias presentadas en el XVII Coloquio de la APFUE, la Asociación de Profesores de Francés de la Universidad Española que ha trocado recientemente su denominación por la de AFUE (Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española); cambio motivado, en opinión –expresada mayoritariamente– de sus miembros, por entender que el término francesistas refleja mejor al conjunto de los universitarios que se dedican a los Estudios Franceses en España, tanto en la docencia como en la investigación. El volumen da...

Offers beginners a proven, step-by-step method of teaching oneself to speak Spanish with conversational ease