Dictionary of Spoken Spanish

El objetivo de COMUNICANDO, COMUNICANDO es enseñar al estudiante de E/LE a manejarse en las situaciones a las que se enfrenta día a día. Por este motivo se han integrado aspectos gramaticales con elementos léxicos enmarcándolos dentro de las llamadas funciones comunicativas. Las funciones comunicativas que aparecen en este libro han sido seleccionadas atendiendo a las necesidades de los estudiantes y se han desarrollado a través de actividades cerradas o abiertas según los objetivos planteados. Público al que se dirige: Estudiantes de Español como Lengua Extranjera.

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

A lyrical, surreal, moving novel chronicles the lives of three generations of Cuban-American women in Miami--Cuca, a believer in spirits; her daughter, Adela, an amorous cosmetologist; and Adela's daughter, Maribel, a dispassionate marketing analyst.