Estudios de lengua española

Three self-teaching study units to gain the basics of conversational Spanish to help you communicate with Spanish-speaking students, and their parents.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

Teo, protagonista de esta historia, se rebela contra su autor porque quiere escribir su propia aventura. Estudiando un examen de historia, se queda dormido y, sin darse cuenta, cae en su cuaderno donde es maltratado por letras y números. Después de algunas contrariedades, llega donde está el mago que guarda la entrada del mundo de la imaginación, quien, para permitirle la entrada, le propone resolver dos adivinanzas, que al fin acierta. Llega al mundo de la imaginación y sin saber cómo se encuentra en el centro de una encarnizada partida de ajedrez, donde todas las fichas intentan...

"'Español escrito' is a first-course textbook designed specifically for college students educated in the United States whose first language is Spanish. The text's main goals are two: to acquaint students with Spanish in its written form, and to expand students' o verall knowledge of the language. To these ends, 'Español escrito' focuses on reading development, orthography, identification of the parts of speech, lexical expansion, and facility in composition"--Preface, p. v.