Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

Offers bilingual terminology for terms and phrases used in banking, management, commerce, international business, and securities

Beginning Medical Spanish. Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility is designed for medical professionals and supporting staff with no prior knowledge of Spanish who need to develop oral language skills and cross-cultural sensitivity to establish relationship-building communication with their Spanish-speaking patients. This hospital-tested program teaches how to connect with patients of limited English-speaking ability and offer them the quality care they seek. Role-play activities allow students to develop their oral proficiency in meaningful contexts and contribute to a creative and dynamic...

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

Publio Ovidio Nasón (43 a. C.-17 d. C.) es uno de los más grandes poetas de la antigua Roma. Fabulador genial, versátil, irónico, erudito, jocoso, sensible, provocador..., son innumerables las facetas que muestra su inagotable obra. En este estudio, Vicente Cristóbal ofrece una panorámica general de la poesía de Ovidio, pero presta especial atención a las obras de tema amoroso de su primera etapa creadora. Colecciones como Amores o Arte de amar, que parten de los poetas romanos previos del género elegíaco, van más allá de sus modelos y ofrecen una perspectiva totalmente nueva al...