Spanish Grammar in Context

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...

EL TANGO QUE NOS PARIÓ: un libro que conmoverá al lector en esa autobiografía de aromas palpitando en el constante fluir de la vida... Allí donde la palabra deviene rebeldía en la trinchera del espíritu, lucha y resistencia. Páginas desbordadas de humanidad danzando a puro latido, y desde la belleza espiritual que en un autor engendra toda crisis existencial.

“A través de los ojos de esta niña de 10 años, Aviya, el lector asiste, por un lado a la peripecia personal de la protagonista la difícil y esporádica relación con su madre y su aislamiento de los otros niños, etc- y a la de su madre, considerada como una “loca”, una extraña para sus vecinos. Es un relato conmovedor, duro, aunque nada lacrimógeno, escrito con sencillez y contención por Gila Almagor, prestigiosa actriz israelita” . (Cuadernos de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, CLIJ). El verano de Aviya fue llevada al cine con gran éxito, recibiendo el Oso de Plata del...

Luis Bunuel's Viridiana is the story of a young novice who, in the space of a short time, is transformed from fervently pious to worldly as she moves from serving God within the convent to serving people outside the convent. When Luis Bunuel began shooting Viridiana in 1961, he decided he did not want stars for the film ("Stars are always horrible," he once remarked). Two of the twelve beggars in the film were not professional actors: the woman dwarf (she was a lottery ticket vendor in Madrid) and the leper. "I remember in particular the remarkable character who played the leper," Bunuel...

The contributions gathered in this volume explore the possible uses of Bible translations to open new perspectives in the history of Iberian Romance languages. In addition to the linguistic description of Bible translations, they provide innovative analyses of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena of high theoretical interest, thus contributing to improve our historical understanding of Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese.