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¡Conversemos! is designed for use in intermediate Spanish courses in conjunction with other texts or as a core text in a conversation course. Its lively, interactive approach develops speaking and listening skills and facilitates student interaction. ¡Conversemos! is correlated thematically to the core text ¡Continuemos!, 7/e, and is easily adaptable for use with other core texts. Practical, high-interest topics motivate students to learn, while problem-solving tasks throughout the text promote the active use of language. A variety of authentic materials throughout the text, such as...

Sol y viento: En breve is an exciting new film-based introductory Spanish program that seamlessly integrates the feature-length film Sol y viento into the instructional and learning experience for both students and instructors. This brief version of Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2005) presents a briefer text that is easily managed for programs with fewer contact hours or as an intensive high beginner course. The movie Sol y viento, created specifically for beginning language learners, was filmed on location in Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The film tells the story of a ...

La rica tradición épica castellana, de la que dan abundante testimonio las prosificaciones de las crónicas medievales, alcanzó tempranamente su cota más alta con el "Poema de Mio Cid". En su prólogo, José Jesús de Bustos Tovar examina los orígenes de la épica castellana, analiza la datación y autoría del manuscrito y estudia su estructura temática y técnica literaria. Lejos del tópico que pretende encarnar en el Cid un inexistente espíritu nacional, el poema «es ante todo la historia de un hombre que recupera su honra por el esfuerzo de su brazo, es decir, la historia de un...