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Learning Spanish can be a difficult process but ¡Vívelo! makes it easier by offering a fresh approach. It emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and...

La recepción entusiasta que Rayuela recibió desde su aparición, en 1963, proyectó a Julio Cortázar a un sostenido reconocimiento internacional. Su imagen de escritor quedó por siempre asociada a las ideas de ruptura, novedad, rechazo del realismo telúrico; y su novela, al estatuto de jalón de la literatura hispanoamericana. Rayuela renovó experimentalmente los cánones de la composición novelística al aunar de manera lúdica un gesto narrativo: la fragmentación, con una heterogeneidad de lenguajes, discursos, géneros y registros que, en su entrevero, producen un efecto de...

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 ...

Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching. I hold a BA from the BUAP in the teaching of English, and a Masters in the teaching of Spanish as a 2nd.language, from the University of the Americas, Puebla. I have been teaching English at all levels, from Basic, all the way to the preparation for the TOEFL for over forty years, at different places, such as: The American School in Puebla, the University of the Americas; and the BUAP, and, of course at - English/Español Training Center, Consequently, I ended up opening a bilingual school to teach both languages. On doing this, I...