Con bro! Beginning Spanish

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

Ensayo del año 2008 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen), Materia: Literatura en imágenes, Idioma: Español, Resumen: En el fragmento de la obra aparecen cuatro personajes: El padre, la madre y sus hijos Mario y Vicente. Probablemente se encuentran en una habitación. El padre es el único que no participa a la conversación. Sólamente las acotaciones del autor indican que el padre también está presente en la escena. Ejemplos: “EL PADRE lo mira ...

While the city of Valencia enjoys the Las Fallas festival, Sheriff Peralta begins to receive strange reports about the disappearance of Fallas girls. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...