"This book is for professionals involved in all areas of retail sales with no previous experience in the Spanish language. It's also a great tool if you want to brush up on the Spanish you learned in high school or college. Learning Spanish you can use on the job will empower you to provide better service to the nation's increasing number of loyal Hispanic customers. It will also help you instill trust and build valuable, long-lasting relationships."--Back cover
An important new book for anyone planning to retire to Spain, whether permanently or for only part of the year. Contains comprehensive information about the best places to live; local services and amenities; the weather; buying or renting a home; the cost of living; health services; getting to Spain and getting around; learning Spanish; and much, much more.
There’s a difference between learning a language and being able to speak it with the familiarity of a native speaker. This book fills that gap, clarifying tricky words and expressions and illuminating the finer points of Spanish wordplay and double meanings.
This workbook is a wonderful guide to the need to know grammar structures commonly found on internationally recognized Spanish proficiency tests. Tests such as the DELE and SIELE. This workbook covers many of the confusing, and often neglected topics needed to successfully obtain or surpass the B2/ C1 level on Spanish proficiency tests. This book covers, in a direct and concise manner, 26 topics pulled directly from the Common European Framework Of Reference For Languages, complete with over 100 exercises. This workbook is a great tool for advancing an aspiring language learners grammar skills, or for teachers looking for new and direct ways of explaining complex topics. Add this book to your learning library as soon as possible!
In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how every important feature of Latin's evolution is also reflected in English. His story includes scores of intriguing etymologies, along with many concrete examples of texts, studies, scholars, anecdotes, and historical events; observations on language; and more. Written with crystalline clarity, this book tells the story of the Romance languages for the general reader and to illustrate so amply Latin's many-sided survival in English as well.
Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and after the United States took control of the region. Focusing on Santa Fe, which was long one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, Deena González demonstrates that women's responses to the conquest were remarkably diverse and that their efforts to preserve their culture were complex and long-lasting. Drawing on a range of sources, from newspapers to wills, deeds, and court records, González shows that the change to U.S. territorial status did little to enrich or empower the Spanish-Mexican inhabitants. The vast majority, in fact, found themselves quickly impoverished, and this trend toward low-paid labor, particularly for women, continues even today. González both examines the long-term consequences of colonization and draws illuminating parallels with the experiences of other minorities. Refusing the Favor also describes how and why Spanish-Mexican women have remained invisible in the histories of the region for so long. It avoids casting the story as simply "bad" Euro-American migrants and "good" local people by emphasizing the concrete details of how women lived. It covers every aspect of their experience, from their roles as businesswomen to the effects of intermarriage, and it provides an essential key to the history of New Mexico. Anyone with an interest in Western history, gender studies, Chicano/a studies, or the history of borderlands and colonization will find the book an invaluable resource and guide.
Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips: CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to dance, eat, drink, and sleep RELIABLE MAPS, from the twisting streets of Granada to the medina of Marrakesh MULTILINGUAL glossary including Arabic, Basque, Catalan, French, Gallego, Portuguese, and Spanish phrases INSIDER TIPS on finding the best jazz on Las Islas Baleares or scoring that magic carpet in a Rabat market HIDDEN SWEETS, from chocolate factories in Astorga to honey-drizzled pastries in Tangier STRAIGHT TALK from travelers on everything from social graces to social justice
This thoroughly researched, highly perceptive and utterly gripping study deals with an important aspect of Spanish and British history - Churchill's policy of appeasement toward the Franco regime in Spain. Wigg demonstrates that the tolerance shown toward Spain's wartime trading permitted the rebuilding of Spanish gold reserves which helped Franco survive his (and Spain's) international ostracism between 1945 and 1950. This important book will interest scholars with an interest in contemporary European political history as well as those with a general interest in Spanish history.