¡VÃvelo!, Edition 2

Learning Spanish can be a difficult process but ¡Vívelo! makes it easier by offering a fresh approach. It emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and...

The Yoruba are responsible for one of Africa's oldest and most dynamic artistic traditions. This cultural heritage now extends to 25 million people of Yoruba descent in other parts of Africa and the Americas.This is a Spanish dictionary for hundreds of words and expressions used in this religion.

This second edition of the popular Spanish for Cruisers has been greatly expanded so that it now covers ALL the language and vocabulary necessary to cruise the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean, Central and South America and Europe. There is no other source that provides boaters and marine interests with the practical, specialized phrases they need to communicate with port captains, dock attendants, marina and boatyard staff, mechanics, marine technicians, rescuers, fishermen and divers. Spanish for Cruisers is just as useful ashore for food provisioning, shopping, dining, medical...

Conocer el nacimiento y la posterior evolución de la filosofía en el mundo heleno antes del advenimiento de Sócrates significa emprender un recorrido a veces intrincado pero siempre apasionante que se ve iluminado aquí con los amplios conocimientos históricos, filosóficos y filológicos de su autor, el prestigioso Olof Gigon. La admirable tarea exegética que Gigon desarrolla en esta obra nos permite disfrutar de una hilvanada evolución del pensamiento presocrático y contextualizar cada uno de los planteamientos filosóficos que se van sucediendo en la antigua Grecia. Remontándose en ...

Seminar paper del año 2006 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,0, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Filología hispánica), Materia: El español de América, 20 Citas bibliográficas, Idioma: Español, Resumen: ‘El espíritu de una nación es su lengua y vice versa.’ Con referencia a esa idea humboldtiana el lingüísta colombiano Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911) escribe al final del siglo XIX: "Nada, en nuestro sentir, simboliza tan cumplidamente la Patria como la lengua: en ella se encarna cuanto hay de más dulce y caro para el individuo y la...