Beginning Spanish for Teachers of Hispanic Students

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.

"Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histâorica de la filologâia by Cipriano Muänoz y Manzano, conde de la Viänaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been tapped before Hans-Josef Niederehe of the University of Trier courageously undertook the task to bring together any available bibliographical information together with much more recent research findings, scattered in libraries, journals and other places. The resulting Bibliografâia...

Se trata de una síntesis de la historia de la India, desde el origen de la original civilización sánscrita en el segundo milenio a.C. hasta el comienzo de la era del colonialismo europeo, que en la India coincide con el sometimiento de la mayor parte del territorio al poder del Islam. Junto a las grandes líneas de la evolución social o política, se perfilan los rasgos principales de la cultura y religión, tanto hindú como musulmana.