Spanish Idioms

Perfect for beginning students of Spanish, this affordable anthology is filled with 41 delightful stories and proverbs based on works of Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Ricardo Palma, and other noted writers. Complete and faithful English translations are featured on the facing pages of the Spanish text. Exercises are also included.

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 ...

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The Workbook / Laboratory Manual, Volume 1, provides a wealth of activities, both aural and written, that reinforce chapter content. For use with either the Audio CD Program, Part 1, available for student purchase, or with the free, downloadable MP3 files in the Online Learning Center. Covers Chapters Primeros pasos –- Chapter 9 Answers found in the appendix.