Colloquial Spanish of Latin America

Ensayos de arte y literatura cubana: Regino Boti, Lydia Cabrera, Eliseo Diego, Fina Garc a Marruz, Lorenzo Garc a Vega, Jos Lezama Lima, Virgilio Pi era, Jos Manuel Poveda, Cintio Vitier / Eduardo Abela, Cundo Berm dez, Mario Carre o, Carlos Enr quez, A

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.

Designed for more advanced introductory-level students, Spanish for Communication develops the basic language skills necessary for successful communication in everyday situations. At the beginning of each lesson, a realistic dialogue provides the context for the introduction of grammar and vocabulary, which is then reinforced through questions, situational roleplays, and realia-based activities and is correlated to Basic Spanish Grammar.

Muy largo ha sido el camino recorrido por la gramatica espanola desde que se inicio el estudio de las relaciones interoracionales hasta que se llego a una clasificacion relativamente satisfactoria de ellas. Muy lento ha sido el progreso de ese estudio desde que dio el primer paso el fundador de la linguistica hispanica, Antonio Nebrija, hasta que algunos gramaticos modernos alcanzaron una meta, siquiera provisional, hace aproximadamente una centuria. Cinco siglos, ahora, de un lento y penoso avance. El autor se propone mostrar aqui, aunque de manera muy esquematica, cual ha sido ese proceso y ...