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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 ...

Excerpt from Gramatica Historica de la Lengua Castellana Cap. I. Noticias Bibliograficas: 55 1 - 4. Cap. II. De la Lengua Castellana: 55 5 - 7. Cap. III. La Historia de la Lengua Castellana: 55 8 - 22. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in ...

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish—upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students—who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help...

"Fue la primera novela escrita por Miguel Angel Asturias y sigue siendo la mas famosa y la mas leida. Ocupa un lugar privilegiado entre las 'novelas de la dictadura', que han llegado a constituir un genero en la literatura hispanoamericana. Esta novela representa una exploracion de la condicion humana percibida a traves del lente distorsionador de una oscura dictadura centroamericana, y es una de las primeras novelas que intenta y logra una revolucion del lenguaje literario, explotando la relacion entre el mito y el lenguaje hallando el modo de revolucionar el aspecto formal del texto dentro...