Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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!

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spain. The bilingual autonomous regions Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands are equally covered in the book, making it an indispensable reference not only for scholars of the Romance languages and of Basque but also for specialists in other disciplines such as cartographers, geographers, historians, archeologists, etc.

Este libro es perfecto si tienes un nivel intermedio de español pero quieres expresarte de una forma más natural, especialmente si tienes pensado vivir en España, hacer negocios con españoles o presentarte al examen del DELE. Con este libro aprenderás más de 450 expresiones coloquiales y refranes que son usadas diariamente en España. Están organizadas por temas de forma que resultan más sencillas de aprender. Los temas engloban desde el vocabulario del trabajo hasta el del sexo. Descubrir que expresiones como "de puta madre" tienen un sentido positivo sorprende mucho a los alumnos,...

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...