Colloquial Spanish

The Annotated Instructor's Edition contains carefully-placed teaching suggestions, variation tips for activities, and answers to close-ended exercises. The text comes packaged with the Text Audio CD.

A bilingual dictionary with 175,000 entries also offers cultural notes, background information on life in English- and Spanish-speaking countries, and verb tables.

Diccionario sohez de uso del español cotidiano, popular, desenfadado, familiar, coloquial, grosero, malhablado, con eufemismos, insultos, clichés, solecismos, barbarismos, ñoñerías, jergas y piadosismos. “Estamos ante una obra ingente, ante un autor que conoce la ciencia del lenguaje popular, se ha impregnado de sus lodos más profundos y ha puesto orden y concierto a la caravana de las palabras soeces que, en tantas ocasiones, definen con especial precisión el sentimiento del pueblo español.” Luis María Anson, de la Real Academia Española.

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spain. The bilingual autonomous regions Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands are equally covered in the book, making it an indispensable reference not only for scholars of the Romance languages and of Basque but also for specialists in other disciplines such as cartographers, geographers, historians, archeologists, etc.