Alá, patria y rey

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it explains from scratch the fundamentals of phonetics (the study of speech sounds) and phonology (the study of sound systems) and describes in detail the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Spanish as it is spoken in both Spain and Latin America. Topics covered include consonants, vowels, acoustics, stress, syllables, intonation, and aspects of variation within Spanish. Clear comparisons are made between the sounds of Spanish and those of English, and students ...

El Real Decreto 1629/2006 dispone que las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas podrán organizar e impartir, en los términos que establezcan las Administraciones educativas, cursos de los niveles C1 y C2 según estos niveles se definen en el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas. Los siete capítulos que componen esta obra recogen las bases normativas, orientaciones sobre métodos de desarrollo curricular y de programación. Se analizan los procesos institucionales de diseño, elaboración, administración y clasificación de pruebas de certificados, y se revisa la implementación de...

El uso de las letras, las reglas de acentuación, los signos de puntuación, el uso de las mayúsculas, abreviaciones, derivados y compuestos; todo ello esquematizado en 64 páginas de exposición clara y fácil consulta.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...