Beginning Spanish for Teachers of Hispanic Students

This book is a series of lectures on topics of culture, economics and Latin American society. Thanks to the titles in this collection, readers will discover the most relevant and interesting aspects of Latin American culture.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

Attempts "to bring together a wide range of expressions, structures, phrases, Spanish, bilingual and translated puns, quips, boasts and truncated, expanded or humorous variants and adaptations of traditional proverbs, all of which are very common in the Spanish dialect of Texas.

El espanol en America es un estudio exhaustivo sobre el desarrollo de la lengua castellana desde el momento en que esta echa raiz en el continente americano hasta que alcanza sus distintas modalidades en las regiones americanas, trazando un mapa en el que se registran las peculiaridades linguisticas del idioma.