Communicating In Spanish (Intermediate Level)

Designed to help the reader become more proficient at communicating in Spainsh about the tourist trade and the hospitality industry.

Sobre el proyecto HISPANOLUSO y este libro: El principal objetivo es documentar, organizar y publicar de forma independiente la mayor cantidad posible de palabras, frases y textos sobre situaciones que ayuden a comprender las verdaderas dificultades en la comunicación entre hablantes de español y de portugués brasileño. Eso me ha llevado a definir, comprender y estudiar el fenómeno del “portuñol”. Si bien existen muchos trabajos académicos el objetivo que el Hispanoluso quiere alcanzar esta basado en una aproximación empírica y usando textos, situaciones y definiciones simples y...

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story's major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.

Upgrade your Spanish is the ideal guide for students wanting a better grade in their Spanish exams. It offers a thirty day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your results. In the countdown to exams, students should simply spend between 30 minutes to an hour a day with this book, and see their mark go up a grade! This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: 1) Eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; 2) Increasing and consolidating your vocabulary; 3) Moving on from school-book Spanish.

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