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Spanish Grammar You Really Need To Know: Teach Yourself
by Juan Kattan-IbarraComprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not only learn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so you sound natural and appropriate. Spanish Grammar You Really Need to Know will help you gain the intuition you need to become a confident communicator in your new language.
Spanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice (Routledge Advances in Spanish Language Teaching)
by Flavia Belpoliti Encarna BermejoSpanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice introduces a comprehensive, multi-level empirical study on the writing abilities of Spanish Heritage Learners at the beginner level; the findings guide a broad selection of instructional activities and pedagogical resources to support writing development in the heritage language classroom. This is the first book dealing exclusively with writing competence among Spanish Heritage Language Learners through the integration of empirical evidence and instructional perspectives to address core questions on heritage language literacy. In addition to the in-depth analysis of Spanish production—spelling, verb usage, grammatical features, vocabulary, and discourse organization—the volume revises the latest perspectives within the Heritage Language Education field, and provides effective teaching approaches, innovative classroom implementations, and up-to-date resources. This versatile volume, designed for researchers and practitioners in the fields of Bilingual Education, Language Teaching Methods, and Heritage Language Pedagogy, integrates empirical evidence, global perspectives on heritage language teaching, and suggestions for further research.
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century (Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies)
by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega Rubén Romero SantosThis book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While addressing the specificities of the Spanish landscape, this volume also situates the national cinematic output within the international arena, understanding film production and reception as continuously changing processes in which a variety of economic, social and cultural factors intervene. The book first analyzes the main horror trends emerging in the early 2000s, then approaches genre hybridization and the rise of new filmmakers since the 2010s with a special focus on gender issues and the reconfiguration of the past, before addressing the impact of streaming services within the Spanish film panorama, from a production and distribution standpoint. This book will be of keen interest to scholars and students in the areas of film studies, media studies, TV studies, horror, Spanish cultural studies and production studies.
Spanish Idioms in Practice: Understanding Language and Culture
by Javier Muñoz-Basols Marianne David Yolanda Pérez SinusíaIdiomatic expressions are the ‘salt and pepper’ of any language. They give Spanish its colour and imagery, its richness and variety. From set phrases and idioms to metaphorical expressions and proverbs, these essential components allow users to add humour and spice to their language, vividly embodying Hispanic culture while naturalizing their communication style to more closely resemble that of native speakers. Key features: Includes a selection of the most widely used idioms from Spain and Latin America; Idioms are classified into specific and easy-to-reference categories; Creative activities, exercises, mnemonic devices and learning strategies facilitate the acquisition and mastery of idiomatic language; Connections between the Spanish language and Hispanic culture are explained and illustrated; Reference tables at the end of each section highlight similarities between English and Spanish usage of idiomatic language; Original samples, as well as fragments from various Spanish-speaking countries and well-known literary works, are included to help expose students to the use of idioms in journalistic and literary writing. Practical, informative and highly entertaining, this is the ideal text for all intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish.
Spanish in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking Spanish (DK Hugo in 3 Months Language Learning Courses)
by DKLearn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently in just 3 months, and adopt an awe-inspiring craft!This educational language guide into the Spanish language has a newly updatedlook and an accompanying audio app that will get you speaking, reading and writing in Spanish easily and promptly. Inside the pages of this Spanish language book, you&’ll find: • &“Imitated pronunciation&” sections that make unfamiliar Spanish sounds less daunting to English learners • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Spanish Adopting a new language is made exciting and super easy with the latest edition of this classic self-study course providing all the resources that you need to converse, read and write in Spanish. If you&’re a complete beginner or simply want to refresh your knowledge, Hugo: Spanish in Three Months will have you speaking Spanish fluently in as little as just 12 weeks.This carefully structured grammar-based course contains 12 weekly chapters filled with informative lessons on the key grammatical structures and presents a range of useful vocabulary, along with easy-to-follow exercises to encourage your learning. You are taught approximately 4,000 words in a spoken, written and listening format, in addition to a helpful written &“imitated pronunciation&” guide. It replaces Spanish sounds with English syllables you&’re already familiar with, so you can perfect your pronunciation at home or on the go.Whether you&’re learning a new language for work, a future vacation or as a hobby, the Hugo language course series is the perfect place to start. Learn languages like French, Dutch, German or Portuguese in only 12 weeks! Each course includes an audio app to help with understanding and pronunciation. Language learning has never been so easy!
Spanish in Health Care: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Glenn A. MartínezSpanish in Health Care fills an important gap by offering a panoramic overview of the research on Spanish in health settings that is emerging from a variety of disciplines. Synthesizing research from diverse disciplines such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, health services research, behavioral health research, health policy and administration, and social epidemiology, the volume offers a uniquely unified approach to the subject of Spanish in healthcare. This volume will be of interest to researchers in Spanish linguistics, sociolinguistics, health communication, and languages for specific purposes.
Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Andrew LynchSpanish in Miami reveals the multifaceted ways in which the language is ideologically rescaled and sociolinguistically reconfigured in this global city. This book approaches Miami’s sociolinguistic situation from language ideological and critical cultural perspectives, combining extensive survey data with two decades of observations, interviews, and conversations with Spanish speakers from all sectors of the city. Tracing the advent of postmodernity in sociolinguistic terms, separate chapters analyze the changing ideological representation of Spanish in mass media during the late 20th century, its paradoxical (dis)continuity in the city’s social life, the political and economic dimensions of the Miami/Havana divide, the boundaries of language through the perceptual lens of Anglicisms, and the potential of South Florida—as part of the Caribbean—to inform our understanding of the highly complex present and future of Spanish in the United States. Spanish in Miami will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of Spanish, Sociolinguistics, and Latino Studies.
Spanish in the United States: Attitudes and Variation (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Scott M. Alvord Gregory L. ThompsonSpanish in the United States: Attitudes and Variation is a collection of new, cutting-edge research with the purpose of providing scholars interested in Spanish as it is spoken by bilinguals living in the United States a current view of the state of the discipline. This volume is broad and inclusive of the populations studied, methodologies used, and approaches to the linguistic study of Spanish in order to provide scholars with an up-to-date understanding of the complexities of the Spanish(es) spoken in the United States. In addition to this snapshot, this volume stimulates new areas of inquiry and motivates new ways of analyzing the social, linguistic, and educational aspects of what it means to speak Spanish in the United States.
Spanish Is Fun: Lively Lessons for Beginners, Book 1
by Heywood Wald Lori Langer de RamirezThis introductory program is designed to help students attain a desired first-year level of proficiency in four basic skills--speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Spanish Made Simple: Revised and Updated (Made Simple)
by Judith NemethyWith more than 2.5 million copies in print, Spanish Made Simple is the bestselling title in the Made Simple series. For years, this trusted guide has led students, tourists, and business travelers step-by-step through the basic vocabulary and grammar of this most-studied foreign language. Thoroughly revised and updated for our increasingly bilingual world, this new edition features verb conjugation and pronunciation charts, modern vocabulary including new idioms, review chapters, reading exercises, a complete answer section, and English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionaries--tools that make mastering the language fun. With Spanish Made Simple, learning a language is as easy as uno, dos, tres.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Spanish Memory Book: A New Approach to Vocabulary Building
by William F. Harrison Dorothy Winters WelkerUsing mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer original mnemonic rimes that are by turns amusing, ironic, pathetic, sentimental, and sardonic to help students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary. Included are mnemonic jingles for 700 of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and consonants. This innovative approach, which the authors have used successfully with their own students, is simple, effective, and entertaining. In the words of one student, "This book teaches me not only Spanish words but English words as well. "
Spanish New York Narratives 1898-1936: Modernization, Otherness and Nation
by David Miranda-BarreiroIn the early decades of the twentieth century, New York caught the attention of Spanish writers. Many of them visited the city and returned to tell their experience in the form of a literary text. That is the case of Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) by Jose Moreno Villa (1887-1955), El crisol de las razas (1929) by Teresa de Escoriaza (1891-1968), Anticipolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza (1883-1961) and La ciudad automatica (1932) by Julio Camba (1882-1962). In tune with similar representations in other European works, the image of New York given in these texts reflects the tensions and anxieties generated by the modernisation embodied by the United States. These authors project onto New York their concerns and expectations about issues of class, gender and ethnicity that were debated at the time, in the context of the crisis of Spanish national identity triggered by the end of the empire in 1898.
The Spanish Perfects: Pathways of Emergent Meaning (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Language Variation)
by Chad HoweThis book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish.
Spanish Phrases for Beginners: A Foolproof Guide to Everyday Terms Every Traveler Needs to Know (Pocket Guides)
by Gail SteinLearn Español before you step off the plane! This beginner&’s book will make using Spanish phrases feel like second nature.This phrasebook is the perfect traveling companion for trips to Spain or any other Spanish speaking countries. You&’ll have everyday terms, popular idioms, conversational phrases, and pronunciation keys when you need them!Have you always wanted to visit Spain or South America? Now, you have a pocket guide that will help you with the phrases and terms you need to feel comfortable asking for directions, ordering food, or talking about the weather and sports. Everything a Traveler Needs to Know Gail Stein, an author of over 27 language books, has compiled Spanish Phrases for Beginners to introduce you to more than basic phrases. The book provides you with information on subtle differences between the peninsula and Latin America Spanish and modern additions such as commonly used social media and internet terms. This book is a foolproof guide to everything you need to know about common Spanish phrases and basic conversation starters. Visit Spanish speaking countries with confidence and excitement to explore. Complete the Series There are more books for beginners to discover in this series from DK Books. Pick up new hobbies and skills such as hand lettering through Hand Lettering for Beginners or learn language phrases through books such as Italian Phrases for Beginners.
Spanish Phrases For Dummies
by Susana WaldThe fun and easy way to speak Spanish With Mexico the #1 international destination for Americans, over 14 million secondary school students enrolled in Spanish classes, and Spanish the primary language in many neighborhoods from L. A. to Miami, this should easily be the most popular title in our new phrase book series, following in the footsteps of Spanish For Dummies (0-7645-5194-9), which has sold more than 300,000 copies. Susana Wald is a writer, teacher, and translator.
Spanish Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)
by Angel FloresDesigned for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative Spanish short stories. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in Spanish, the stories are presented both in Spanish and English, enabling students to learn a language while simultaneously studying literary classics. Edited by former Queens College professor Angel Flores, the volume includes brilliant works not available in any other edition published in the U.S. First-rate stories range from the medieval tales of Don Juan Manuel and the classics of Cervantes, Alarcon and Miguel de Unamuno to the highly acclaimed contemporary works of Jorge Luis Borges, Camilo Jose Cela, and Juan Goytisolo. Also included are satirical views of Spanish life by Leopolda Alas (Clarin) and Emilia Pardo Bazan, charming sketches by Ricardo Palma, and the socially and politically inspired writings of Benito Lynch and Horacia Quiroga. With this book, language students will be able to follow Spanish classics in the original while having immediate access to a complete, faithful English translation on the facing page. The dual format saves hours in word-hunting and note-taking, allowing more time for intensified study of the language, building vocabulary and practicing conversation. The present volume also contains an informative essay on Spanish literature, a biographical-critical introduction to each story, notes on obscure references and idioms and a Spanish-to-English vocabulary.Students of language and comparative literature will find the dual-language format convenient and helpful and the stories deeply satisfying; readers interested in Spanish literature will want to add this important and stimulating collection to their personal libraries.
Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century: A Dual-Language Book
by Stanley AppelbaumThese eleven tales are by four outstanding nineteenth-century authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero" (The Sorcerer), by Juan Valera, a highly polished allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's tale of bandits, "La buenaventura," appears with his "La Comendadora," inspired by an incident in a Granada convent. Three tales by Leopoldo Alas ("Clarín")--"Adios, Cordera," "Cambio de luz," and "Benedictino"--exemplify the author's remarkably protean style. Emilia Pardo Bazán's stories ("Afra," "La Santa de Karnar," "La cana," "Dios castiga," and "La Mayorazga de Bouzas") take place in her native Galicia. All exhibit the violence that fascinated Pardo Bazán, along with the independent, courageous female characters who populate her work.This dual-language edition features an informative introduction and ample footnotes, making it not only a pleasure to read but also a valuable learning and teaching aid for students and teachers of Spanish literature.
Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era /Cuentos españoles del Romanticismo: A Dual-Language Book
by Stanley AppelbaumThese twelve classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the 1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic era, they remain popular with readers of every generation. Featured authors include "Fernán Caballero," Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Mariano José de Larra, Enrique Gil y Carrasco, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.This dual-language edition features an informative introduction and ample footnotes, making it not only a pleasure to read but also a valuable learning and teaching aid for students and teachers of Spanish literature. Together with Dover's Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century, it offers a wide-ranging survey of an important literary age.
The Spanish Subjunctive: A Reference for Teachers
by Hans-Jörg BuschA Complete Guide to the Spanish Subjunctive is the most complete reference guide to the use of the subjunctive in Spanish. Along with an exhaustive review of published literature on the subjunctive, the book also includes a thorough discussion of the uses and meanings of the subjunctive as well as examples throughout drawn from linguistic corpora such as the CREA database. The book presents a comprehensive theory of the subjunctive and provides practical rules for understanding, teaching and acquiring the Spanish subjunctive. This book includes: "Your Turn" sections that invite readers to reflect on the content discussed and on their own experiences in teaching the subjunctive A "Synopsis" section that summarizes the content of the work and offers practical suggestions for teaching the subjunctive Two indexes providing a summary of verb conjugation in the subjunctive and an alphabetical list of expressions used with the subjunctive.
Spanish Super Review (Super Reviews Study Guides)
by The Editors of REAGet all you need to know with Super Reviews! Each Super Review is packed with in-depth, student-friendly topic reviews that fully explain everything about the subject. The Spanish Super Review includes comprehensive reviews of basic pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, conjugation of regular and irregular verbs, pronouns, time, weather, and numbers. Take the Super Review quizzes to see how much you've learned - and where you need more study. Makes an excellent study aid and textbook companion. Great for self-study! DETAILS - From cover to cover, each in-depth topic review is easy-to-follow and easy-to-grasp - Perfect when preparing for homework, quizzes, and exams! - Review questions after each topic that highlight and reinforce key areas and concepts - Student-friendly language for easy reading and comprehension - Includes quizzes that test your understanding of the subject
Spanish Super Review, 2nd Ed.
by The Editors of REANeed help with Spanish? Want a quick review or refresher for class? This is the book for you! REA's Spanish Super Review gives you everything you need to know! This Super Review can be used as a supplement to your high school or college textbook, or as a handy guide for anyone who needs a fast review of the subject. * Comprehensive, yet concise coverage - review covers the material that students must know to read, write, and speak Spanish. Each topic is presented in a clear and easy-to-understand format that makes learning easier. * Questions and answers for each topic - let you practice what you've learned and build your skills. * End-of-chapter quizzes - gauge your understanding of the important information you need to know, so you'll be ready for any homework assignment, quiz, or test. Whether you need a quick refresher on the subject, or are prepping for your next exam, we think you'll agree that REA's Super Review provides all you need to know!
The Spanish Travelmate
by Lexus Alicia de Benito Harland Mike HarlandThe Spanish Travelmate phrasebook and dictionary gives you a detailed yet easy-to-use A to Z list of English words and phrases with Spanish translations for quick-find reference. There are more than 3500 words and phrases, and the Spanish translations come together with an easy-to-read pronunciation guide. Tap a hyperlink (there are hundreds of them) to go to special sections: travel tips about being in Spain; basic language notes; typical Spanish replies to your Spanish questions; conversion tables. These are features which make the Travelmate the must-have ebook Spanish phrasebook download for the traveller who wants to really communicate. The Spanish Travelmate phrasebook and dictionary also gives you a detailed Spanish menu reader of over 500 items and a dictionary section with translations of over 300 common Spanish signs and notices. This is the little book that's a big help. And a joined-up language experience.
Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics)
by Antonio FábregasSpanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives. This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a Neo-Constructionist framework that highlights the correlations between the syntactic and semantic behaviour of verbs and their morphological make up. Provided within are detailed empirical descriptions of each of the nine major ways of building lexical verbs in Spanish, as well as an integral analysis of those patterns that shows the significance of the contrast between them and their uses to address some foundational questions in morphological theory. Spanish Verbalisations will be of particular interest to researchers in formal linguistics and Spanish. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r)
by David BrodskyIt's time for a new approach to learning Spanish verbs. Unlike popular verb guides that require the rote memorization of hundreds of verb forms, this book clearly explains the rules that govern the conjugation of all classes of Spanish verbs—especially the irregular ones that give second-language learners the most trouble. These simple, easy-to-understand rules for conjugating Spanish verbs are effective learning tools for both beginning students and more advanced speakers who want to perfect their usage of Spanish verb forms.
Spanish Visual Dictionary For Dummies
by Consumer DummiesSpanish Visual Dictionary Learn Spanish vocabulary faster!It’s a fact—seeing something helps you remember it. This handy guide helps you build your Spanish vocabulary with full-color pictures illustrating every term. You’ll be able to communicate with native speakers faster as you learn and remember more words and their meanings. The book is organized by themes such as transportation, accommodations, restaurants and eating, sports, emergencies, and shopping, making it especially useful for travelers. Boost your learning speed and get talking in Spanish today!InsideTransportation terminologyGetting around a cityRestaurants and food ordersHandling an emergency