El cuento hispánico

Learn the 201 most common Spanish phrases anywhere, anytime with this digital format that enhances memorization! Barron’s 201 Spanish Phrases You Need to Know Flashcards offer the most common phrases in color-coded categories, including greetings, questions, feelings and emotions, well wishes, activities and hobbies, and weather. Each flashcard presents: The Spanish phrase with phonetic pronunciation The English translation with a photo Highlights for different usage and alternate phrasing Pronunciation guidance Verb conjugations Pronouns Numbers And more Digital flashcard features: Access...

Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish. Defining periphrases as "productive verbal constructions with a partially grammaticized finite verb," the study strives to account for the partly lexical and partly grammatical status of periphrases within the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar--which views language as a tool for verbal communication rather than as an autonomous system. The study finds that, for certain complexities of periphrase usage, Functional Grammar needs to be adapted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, ...

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Sonido y sentido lifts the learning of Spanish pronunciation for American English-speaking students to a new level, with support of an accompanying CD. Written in Spanish by a native speaker who is a leading figure in the field of Spanish phonology, this introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology will improve both the pronunciation and understanding of spoken Spanish by demonstrating the specific ways in which the sound pattern of Spanish differs from English. Notable in that it explains the why of pronunciation with specific information on how the sounds of Spanish are organized--it...