Lengua Espanola I

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

French course for Spanish speakers A course that doesn't involve learning by heart, ideal for beginners and for a refresher course. Learners can start to speak French within two months, gaining an intuitive knowledge of grammar. Within six months, learners can take part in everyday conversation with a vocabulary of 1,500 to 2,000 words. The recordings include all the texts in French for each lesson and the translation exercises from the book. These progressively more challenging texts have been recorded by professional native speakers. - Lively, useful dialogue - Carefully-constructed...

El presente tomo abarca la existencia, persistencia y posible crecimiento del voseo a lo largo de gran parte del continente americano. El voseo es un tema de creciente interés académico: habiendo sido marcado como coloquial e inapropiado, vive un renacimiento en el siglo XXI. Hace medio siglo se predecía que el voseo dejaría de emplearse; hoy en día no sólo no desaparece, sino crece en varios casos. En esta colección de estudios, entendemos por qué es importante el voseo y por qué sigue vigente en el habla actual. Vos implica cercanía en la comunicación; refleja valores sociales;...

Accompanied by audio exercises and downloadable mini-dialogs for practice in usage and review, offers 555 fully conjugated verbs, current idioms and expressions for each verb, extended usage examples, and more than 2,500 verbs cross-referenced to conjugation models.