El Primer Libro de Lectura en Ingles para Principiantes / The First Book of Reading in English for Beginners

amazing = asombroso amusing = divertido ¿Comprendes estas primeras palabras en inglés? ¡Si tu puedes! ¡Esto es inglés fácil! ¿Por qué? Porque lo lees usando una nueva técnica: lectura bilingüe (texto paralelo). ¿Cómo funciona? Es simple: la lectura bilingüe funciona al leer dos versiones del mismo libro o texto al mismo tiempo. Una versión está en el idioma que desea aprender (en este caso, lo ayudaremos a aprender inglés) y la otra versión está en su idioma nativo o en otro idioma con el que se sienta cómodo: aquí utilizaremos el español. De esta manera, puedes aprender...

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

The highly successful intermediate Spanish three volume program provides instructors with a wealth of materials unified in content and offering a variety of teaching and learning options for successful outcomes. Students benefit from the abundant grammar and conversation practice in all three volumes, and learn to approach a topic or issue from multiple viewpoints. Conversacion y repaso is the grammar and conversational text designed to be used with one or both of the accompanying readers, Civilizacion y cultura and Literatura y arte. The purpose of the text is to review and expand upon the...

Developed for beginning and intermediate-level courses, Graded Spanish Reader: Primera etapa features works by renowned Spanish and Latin American literary figures, including prominent women writers. Selections of fiction, poetry, and drama are supported by a comprehensive pre-reading and post-reading apparatus designed to engage students as readers, writers, and speakers of the Spanish language. Brief discussion of literary figures and tropes prepares students to understand the meaning and function of figurative language. Biographical sketches and cultural context provides students with a...