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What you need to know - now! Designed for beginning language students (no prior knowledge of Spanish is assumed), for whom success in the field is vitally important,Spanish for Health Care prepares you to use “real-life language” on the job—immediately. A focus on practical language learned in context makes Spanish accessible for the health professional.

Improve your Spanish language skills with authentic texts . The best way to bring the grammar of a language to life is by experiencing it in context, as it is actually used by native speakers and writers. Designed for the intermediate and advanced student, Spanish Grammar in Context puts Spanish grammar into context for you with an array of engaging texts, including newspaper articles, song lyrics, literary texts, and even transcriptions from TV talk shows. . Each chapter focuses on a specific element of grammar. A short text is followed by an explanation of the relevant grammar and several...

This is an anthology of ten short stories dealing with a broad range of Spanish American literary themes: love, hate, vengeance, justice, oppression and solidarity. A reading guide offers tips for reading in Spanish and provides guidelines for predicting a story's major events. Following each story are two different sections of comprehension activities, as well as exercises on key modismos (idioms) and grammar structures.

Mit der kubanischen Wirtschaftskrise entstanden neue literarische Gestaltungsprozesse nationaler Identitätskonstruktionen. Die vorliegende Analyse geht der zeitgenössischen Literatur Kubas nach, in der soziale, kulturelle und politische Paradoxe der post-revolutionären Weltanschauung zum Vorschein kommen und der Figur der „Insel“ bzw. „Insularität“ eine große Bedeutung für die Neukonfiguration der Nation zukommt. Die „Insularität“ drückt in literarischen Texten verschiedene Aneignungen des Raumes und somit auch eine Weltanschauungen aus. Die literarische Figur der...