Bilingual Edition: If I had a Cat If I had a cat, I would play with it. If you had a cat, what would you do with it? What would it do with you? This funny beginning reader is perfect for kids who think they want a cat. With 28 unique words, If I had a Cat, is part of the Reading Stars series and makes a great book for kids just starting out in their love of reading. Sample text: If I had a cat, I would take it for a walk. It would not want to walk. It would want to lie down. In this Xist Kids English Spanish Bilingual Edition, the original English text is paired with the Spanish translation on each page.
Spanish-English Dialogues is a collection of over 60 conversations ranging from fundamental topics (e.g., phone calls, introductions, and tools) to academic (e.g., Renaissance, Copernicus, and Newton). Revolving around a middle-class family, these conversations are presented in an easily accessible bilingual format ideal for classroom use, allowing the student to attain authentic tone, rhythm, inflection and volume in context. Throughout is a series of cartoons meant not only to enhance the vocabulary, but also to bring life to the dialogues. Choosing the dialogues most practical and interesting, the student can be exposed to an ample variety of useful vocabulary—lasting over a year at the rate of one dialogue per week. The introduction presents a variety of standard and innovative methods for presenting the material. Our goal is to breathe life into language learning.
Choose Barron’s 501 Spanish Verbs for language learning--a trusted resource for over 50 years! This edition provides language learners with fingertip access to a carefully curated selection of the 501 most common Spanish verbs--in all tenses and moods! It is the perfect companion for students in high-school and college-level courses, or for anyone who wants to self-study. Each verb is listed alphabetically in chart form—one verb per page along with its English translation, present participle, and gerundio. Follow the clear, concise instruction, and then take your language fluency to the next level with an online activity center. Comprehensive Language Learning Lists of synonyms, antonyms, idioms, and usage examples for every verb A concise grammar review of tricky topics, organized for easy reference The popular 55 Essential Verbs feature, with an in-depth look at usage and formation for the most useful and challenging Spanish verbs Over 2,300 additional verbs conjugated like the 501 models English-Spanish Verb Index Numerous other features, such as: a pronunciation guide, weather expressions, subjunctive mood, defective and impersonal verbs, verbs that take prepositions, reflexive and reciprocal verbs, and more More Practice Online Audio program modeling native speaker rhythms and pronunciation Listening comprehension 4 practice quizzes with detailed answer explanations and auto scoring
Laugh and learn with fun facts about the sun, the moon, the planets, constellations, astronauts, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring The Cat in the Hat! “The universe is a mysterious place. We are only just learning what happens in space.” The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! On this adventure into outer space, readers will discover: • what makes each planet in our solar system unique • how a million Earths could fit inside the sun • how astronauts have driven a special car all over the moon • and much more! Perfect for story time and for the youngest readers, There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System also includes an index, glossary, and suggestions for further learning. Look for more books in the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series! Cows Can Moo! Can You? All About Farms Hark! A Shark! All About Sharks If I Ran the Dog Show: All About Dogs Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur? All About Dinosaurs On Beyond Bugs! All About Insects One Vote Two Votes I Vote You Vote Who Hatches the Egg? All About Eggs Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry? All About Deserts Wish for a Fish: All About Sea Creatures
Colloquial Spanish in Context examines subtle and difficult grammar points as they naturally appear: in normal, everyday Spanish as seen in comic strips.
Intended as a tool for new students of Spanish linguistics or general linguistics, this dictionary offers concise definitions and examples of linguistics terminology and its branches in both Spanish and English. The dictionary is presented in two main parts: one part for terms in Spanish, which includes equivalents in English and definitions in both languages; and one part for cross-reference between English and Spanish terms. This comprehensive dictionary is a valuable resource for both students and teachers of linguistics. Designado como un instrumento para estudiantes principiantes en la lingüística española o en la lingüística general, este diccionario les ofrece en español e inglés las definiciones y ejemplos concisos de términos de lingüística y sus varias disciplinas. El diccionario consiste en dos partes principales: una para términos en español con equivalentes en inglés y definiciones en ambos idiomas; y la otra para la referencia entre términos en inglés y español. Este diccionario detallado es una valiosa fuente tanto para estudiantes como para profesores de lingüística.
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), THE LEOPARD is one of the best-selling Italian novels of the twentieth century and an acclaimed masterpiece of world literature. This beautiful hardcover edition, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, also includes two short stories and a brief memoir of the author’s childhood. Set in Sicily in the 1860s, during the tumult of Italian unification, THE LEOPARD tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, fading aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of revolution and democracy. Its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950s, inspired by the decline of his own family. Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he finds himself beset by civil war, social change, and his family’s loss of wealth and status. While his beloved nephew, Tancredi, more practical and flexible than he, joins the nationalist rebels and marries the ambitious daughter of a newly rich upstart, Don Fabrizio takes refuge in his love of astronomy, gazing at the unchanging stars while the world as he has known it crumbles around him. The dramatic sweep and richness of Lampedusa’s observation, his seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and his sure grasp of human frailty imbue THE LEOPARD with its melancholy beauty and power. “No novel in Italian literature has aroused so much passion or caused so much argument… The book is more than the memorable invocation of a certain place in a certain epoch. It is a work of art that will survive, long after the last sad palaces of Palermo have gone, because it deals with the central problems of the human experience.” —from the Introduction by David Gilmour "The genius of its author and the thrill it gives the reader are probably for all time."—The New York Times Book Review "A masterwork . . . A superb novel in the great tradition and the grand manner."—Newsweek Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
