Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Basada en una noticia real que apareció en un periódico, Federico García Lorca escribe una pieza magistral, Bodas de Sangre, en la que la pasión convierte el amor y el honor familiar en lujuria y deslealtad el mismo día de la boda de dos grandes fortunas. Based on a real piece of news that appeared at a newspaper, Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca is a masterly play in which passion turns love and family honour into lust and disloyalty the same day of the wedding of two great fortunes.

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

Approximately 2000 idiomatic expressions are presented in English, with their meanings or equivalents expressed in Spanish.