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Immerse yourself in Spanish language and culture! Identidades empowers learners to acquire Spanish language skills while immersing them in the richness of the Hispanic world and its people. I dentidades is a two-semester intermediate Spanish program that brings the goals of the National Standards to virtually every page of the text and its ancillary components. The program presents and treats the cultures of the Hispanic world in ways that are both appealing and appropriate for college students and simultaneously maintains reasonable expectations for their understanding and productive use of...

Horrorland--it's the coolest theme park ever. No crowds, no lines, and the rides are to die for. But it's the people in the monster costumes that are really great. They seem so real...

The middle school companion to ¡Buen viaje!, this program is written for the middle school learner, presenting material in smaller chunks with active practice and reinforcement. ¿Cómo te va? covers the same material as ¡Buen viaje! Level 1 so students who complete ¿Cómo te va? Niveles verde y azul may move directly into ¡Buen viaje! Level 2.

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, ...