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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.

Class book and self-learning for students preparing to spend an Erasmus year in Spain. 14 units with balanced social-cultural and linguistic information. Complete with answers and audio CD. Suitable for class or self-learning.

La influencia del inglés sobre el español es uno de los fenómenos sociolingüísticos más destacados desde mediados del siglo XX en adelante. La creciente presencia del área anglosajona, así como la estandarización del modelo de vida occidental, fuertemente fomentado por los EE.UU. de Norteamérica, hacen del inglés la lengua de mayor protagonismo internacional. En el presente volumen el lector encontrará un estado de la cuestión sobre este asunto: los factores extralingüísticos que ayudan a entender la complejidad del fenómeno, las posturas adoptadas por los distintos estudiosos ...

"'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.