Los secretos de la Santería

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

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.

The system includes: * Two audio CDs with the voice of author Santiago Reynaga as well as four native speakers of English. * An explanation of every major sound in the English language. And many examples.* A comparison of the English sounds with the similar Spanish sound. How do English and Spanish pronunciation differ? Which English language sounds are “traps” for Spanish speakers? * Each chapter on sounds includes the “Listen & Compare” section. Hear the difference on CD. Then repeat the English pronunciation. You said it. You did it. * Lessons on advanced aspects of pronunciation,...

Wie kommt die Krise in die Zeitung? Welche Taktik steckt hinter Wahlkampffloskeln? Und was sagt die Sprachwissenschaft dazu? Die Autoren dieses Buches analysieren den Diskurs zwischen Politik und Medien aus romanistisch-linguistischer Perspektive und stellen hier einige korpusgestützte Fallstudien vor. Sie untersuchen darin unter anderem Wahlkampfstrategien und -taktiken sowie die mediale Darstellung der politischen Krise in den romanischen Ländern. Die empirisch belegten Analysen thematisieren sowohl einzelsprachliche Phänomene als auch sprachübergreifende Gemeinsamkeiten, wobei einzelne ...