Catalan-english/ English-catalan Practical Dictionary
Catalan-english/ English-catalan Practical Dictionary

Author: A. Scott Britton

Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780781813686

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Catalan is a romance language named after the autonomous province Catalonia in Spain and spoken by well over 9 million people worldwide. It is also the national and only official language of Andorra. Most Catalan speakers, however, reside in Spain's Catalonia and Valencia provinces. Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently from Vulgar Latin during the Middle Ages around the Pyrenees region. During the 19th century and the rise of a nationalist cultural movement in Catalonia, the language was revived as a literary language. Since the 1980s, Catalan has been the language used in state schools, and thus most residents of Catalonia are bilingual in Catalan and Spanish. Ideal for businesspeople, travelers, and students, this dictionary features over 16,000 word-to-word entries, including common words as well as technical, legal, business and locally-specific terms (key cities, foods, and cultural terms). It also includes an exhaustive pronunciation guide and a concise discussion of the basics of Catalan grammar.

Cultures of Anyone
Cultures of Anyone

Author: Luis Moreno Caballud

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1781381933

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This book focuses on the rise of sharing and collaboration practices among peers in Spanish digital cultures and social movements in the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008.

The Future of Spanish in the United States
The Future of Spanish in the United States

Author: José Antonio Alonso

Publisher: Fundación Telefónica

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13:

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U.S. leadership will be a strong factor in the persistence of Spanish in its midst as a living language will be a powerful factor in the strengthening of the language on the international stage. In this volume, a number of specialists, all professors of Latino origins currently working in U.S. universities, analyze a variety of factors, from different perspectives, that play a role in the present and future vitality of Spanish as a second language in the U.S. The result is a rich and complex work surrounding a crucial issue that will influence the future of Spanish as an international language.

English-Dari Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary
English-Dari Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary

Author: Richard Carlson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781984237699

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About the Book: Learn types of clothing with this bilingual children's picture dictionary.English-Dari Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary Dictionnaire bilingue illustr� pour enfants www.rich.center

Spanish as a Heritage Language in the Netherlands
Spanish as a Heritage Language in the Netherlands

Author: Pablo Irizarri

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9789460932137

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There are more than 100,000 people in the Netherlands born in a Spanish speaking country, or with at least one parent born there. A large part of them fits the definition of heritage speaker: persons exposed to a heritage language in a naturalistic setting from birth, simultaneously or subsequently exposed intensively to another language in childhood, and with varying degrees of proficiency in the heritage language. This dissertation investigates the Spanish spoken as a heritage language by members of a small but tight-knit subgroup: the first and second generation of Chileans in the Netherlands. This Dutch-Spanish bilingual community was studied from a sociolinguistic perspective, and then linguistically on the basis of 60 hours of recordings. These were gathered through visual elicitation and personal interviews with 40 participants - 24 bilinguals and a control group of 16 monolingual homeland speakers in Chile.

English-Pashto Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary
English-Pashto Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary

Author: Richard Carlson, Jr.

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-11

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781979670258

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About the Book: Learn types of clothing with this bilingual children's picture dictionary. English-Pashto Clothes Bilingual Children's Picture Dictionary www.rich.center

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish
A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish

Author: Mark Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 1457

ISBN-13: 1134874537

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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.