Conversacion y repaso

This video program on DVD accompanies the Intermediate Spanish series and presents specially selected cultural topics relating directly to material covered in Civilizaci n y cultura. Featuring a mix of short film (NEW to this edition), authentic news clips, and other cultural footage, the video program spans the Spanish-speaking world and provides you with a wealth of cultural perspectives.

This glossary should be exceptionally useful to translators, teachers, and business professionals who interact with those in Cuba where the number of new terms and new meanings for old terminology continues to grow. (Foreign Language Dictionary)

Designed for more advanced introductory-level students, Spanish for Communication develops the basic language skills necessary for successful communication in everyday situations. At the beginning of each lesson, a realistic dialogue provides the context for the introduction of grammar and vocabulary, which is then reinforced through questions, situational roleplays, and realia-based activities and is correlated to Basic Spanish Grammar.

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand grammatical concepts, describes health-related cultural competence and presents opportunities to discuss issues of concern about the health of Hispanic communities in the US and abroad.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...