Amor por sorpresa

The system includes: * Two audio CDs with the voice of author Santiago Reynaga as well as four native speakers of English. * An explanation of every major sound in the English language. And many examples.* A comparison of the English sounds with the similar Spanish sound. How do English and Spanish pronunciation differ? Which English language sounds are “traps” for Spanish speakers? * Each chapter on sounds includes the “Listen & Compare” section. Hear the difference on CD. Then repeat the English pronunciation. You said it. You did it. * Lessons on advanced aspects of pronunciation,...

Para los estudiantes de lengua, el presente libro Los tiempos verbales ofrece un sencillo método que les permite dominar las 3 conjugaciones con sólo aprender 9 “fórmulas introductorias” (una para cada tiempo simple) y las 8 relaciones entre los tiempos simples y los compuestos. Se explica además el uso básico de cada tiempo, así como las dificultades más habituales de acentuación, ortografía y conjugación de ciertos verbos de uso frecuente. Para los profesionales de la lengua o los estudiantes avanzados, el libro ofrece un exhaustivo estudio del uso matizado de los tiempos (se...

Drawing on authentic cultural materials ranging from thought-provoking artwork to classic literature and short contemporary films, Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España offers a fresh and inspired approach to the teaching of advanced Spanish Composition. In each of the eight thematically-organized chapters, these primary source materials are used to illustrate—to provide a “portrait” of—a historically or culturally important figure in the Hispanic world. These first-hand introductions to such personalities offer students rich opportunities to explore cultural...

In this book you will find two novellas in English paired with their Spanish translations. Due to the nature of translating and the differences between languages, the translations will not be an exact match to each other. Sometimes the wording between the two languages will be very similar, but in other places the wording will be quite different. You can use this book as a learning tool to comparatively study English and Spanish, learning from both the differences and the similarities. One way to use this book is to take different colored pencils to circle verbs or underline nouns and compare ...