Download or read book Spanish in Four Continents written by Carmen Silva-Corvalán and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to examine the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua. The overall picture that evolves clearly indicates that although influence from the contact languages may lead to different dialects, the core grammar of Spanish remains intact. Silva-Corvalán's volume makes an important contribution both to sociolinguistics in general, and to Spanish linguistics in particular. The contributors address theoretical and empirical issues that advance our knowledge of what is a possible linguistic change, how languages change, and how changes spread in society in situations of intensive bilingualism and language contact, a situation that appears to be the norm rather than the exception in the world.
Download or read book Spanish in Four Continents written by Carmen Silva-Corvalán and published by . This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to examine the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. Nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua. The overall picture that evolves clearly indicates that although influence from the contact languages may lead to different dialects, the core grammar of Spanish remains intact. Silva-Corvalán's volume makes an important contribution both to sociolinguistics in general, and to Spanish linguistics in particular. The contributors address theoretical and empirical issues that advance our knowledge of what is a possible linguistic change, how languages change, and how changes spread in society in situations of intensive bilingualism and language contact, a situation that appears to be the norm rather than the exception in the world.
Download or read book Spanish for Beginners written by Sergio Rodriguez and published by White Flower Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language. The fast and steady growth of the Spanish speaking population has made Spanish a necessity in business. Learning Spanish will empower you to communicate in the most productive way with Spanish speaking co-workers, employees, or customers. Hispanic consumers are the most dynamic market segment in North America. Knowing Spanish is particularly advantageous if you're in the healthcare or education sector. The globalization trend has made it possible to tap this vast and fast growing market segment. Health practitioners and professionals who want to provide the best services to their Spanish-speaking clients will want to speak and understand their language to ensure that there are no barriers to excellent service. If you're looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your résumé will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual. If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience. If this is your first time to learn a Romance language, you can use this knowledge to easily learn other related languages. The book "Spanish for Beginners" is designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It is written with the self-learner in mind and organized to help its readers understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time. This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning, anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days. Learning a language permanently requires mastery of its fundamentals. This book highlights the important features of the Spanish language in the areas of grammar, pronunciation, syllabication, sentence formation, and communication.
Download or read book Spanish First 100 Lessons written by Graeme Partington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hola! Spanish is the main language for people in 21 countries in four continents around the world. For the first time, your First 100 Spanish Lessons are presented here in an easy-to-follow format. Learn essential Spanish words and phrases. Practice the correct pronunciation. Prepare for a memorable trip to Spain. Or visit the Spanish-speaking people of South America! Or have fun with your new Spanish language skills in Central America. Buenos días!
Download or read book One Family Four Cultures and Four Continents written by Asher Elkayam and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book, One Family, Four Cultures and Four Continents, by Asher Elkayam, depicts the adventures of a child growing up in Morocco and goes through political and historical events which happened in his childhood and focused on a pivotal year: 1956. Mr. Elkayam writes about the beauty of childhood and the innocence thereof, the neighborhood, the nature, the education, the typical things, which happened then but may never be repeated. In an emotional way, he describes the infl uence of his parents, who were among the guardians of Jewish tradition. He describes the Moroccan Jewish population, which represented a minority, and the events which led to their survival. Having been targeted by the Nazi regime which expanded its grip on North Africa during the 1940’s, including French Morocco, that minority of Jews of North Africa was saved by the arrival of the American forces, during World War Two, who landed in Casablanca in November, 1942, the author’s city of birth. The North African Jewry, which totaled about 400,000, was thus saved from the Nazi threat while Nazi atrocities in Europe went on until 1945, thus destroying the majority of the European Jews. Consequently, a massive exodus of North African Jews took place between 1948 and 1958. The hopes and dreams, as recited in their daily prayers, to reach the Holy Land, were fi nally realized. With measured enthusiasm, Asher describes the friendly relationship between Moslems and Jews in his native Morocco. Asher wants to make sure his readers understand that there is a divide between friendship and politics. The overwhelming majority of his neighbors were friendly and unthreatening. However those in the small minority who became active in politics were behind the forces which eventually caused Asher’s family and thousands more to look for a safe exit from his native land. Whether the events which led to a massive exodus from North Africa represented a coincidental circumstance in current events or whether they were caused by some divine intervention would remain for a long time a thing historians could decide on one day.
Download or read book How To Pick Up Spanish Girls written by Yoonj Kim and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK España. The country’s Spanish name rolls off the tongue so easily, provoking images of a lazy afternoon during siesta as warm breezes gently stir you awake. Upon awakening, you would stroll over to the nearest restaurant on Las Ramblas, Barcelona’s most famous street, and sit down for some steaming-hot tapas. As you knock back a glass of wine while waiting for your order, the thought hits you: if only you had a lovely Spanish lady by your side to complete this perfect moment. This book will attempt to help you find that dark-haired, boisterous woman of your dreams. Playboys and voyeurs, however, beware. Since this guide is written by a girl, respect and good intentions will be requirements on the journey. But if you heed my woman’s intuition to the end, with a little bit of luck and the key foreign languages phrases in this book, you will be successful no matter what your aim, be it a first date or long-term relationship. MEET THE AUTHOR Having trudged through four continents and lived in two countries by the age of 21, Yoonj considers herself a citizen of the world. It is through this perspective that she approaches everything in her life, including writing. Having studied journalism and international studies at Northwestern University, she is keen to tell stories of people and events around the world. She has previously written for The Chicago Tribune, The Orange County Register, and dabbled in documentary production at CNN. Her next stop will be e.tv, a television channel in Johannesburg, South Africa, where in her free time she hopes to indulge her other interests of food, drink, and dance. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK So you’re at the club, or cafe, or whatever your social venue of choice is, to meet people. You look around and spy over in the corner a tanned shoulder, dark eyelashes, a beautiful smile. A chica bonita. You’re dying to go over and talk to her but you have absolutely no idea what to do, what to say, or even which smile to give her. My advice to you: have no worries. Spanish girls, at least the many I’ve met through traveling, possess a wonderful combination of qualities: they stay relaxed while being vivacious talkers. All you will need is an interesting fact about yourself, so you’re basically covered since by virtue of being a foreigner in Spain (or Mexico, or any other Spanish-speaking country), you’re instantly interesting. Use that to your advantage, since one of the best ways to experience a new country is to meet new people. Now all you need to do is straighten your collar, fix that cowlick, and head on over to her armed with these Spanish terms. Buy a copy to keep reading!
Download or read book Learn Spanish in Your Car written by Francisco Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been trying to learn Spanish and simply can't find the way to expand your vocabulary? Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language, with more than 400 million native speakers all over the world. It is the official language in 21 countries including Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Argentina, and Equatorial Guinea. It is the most popular second language in the United States and Europe. The large population of Spanish speakers around the world in four continents and beyond makes it a smart choice for a second language. Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don't really understand? If you're looking for job opportunities worldwide, having Spanish in your r�sum� will certainly confer definite advantages over those who are monolingual. If you have plans of travelling to Spanish-speaking regions, the ability to understand and speak the language will make your trip a truly enriching experience. Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered "Yes!" to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We've compiled the 4000 Most Common Words in Spanish, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen. The book must know Spanish words was designed to help you learn Spanish and bridge the communication gap in as fast as one week. It was written with the self-learner in mind and organised to help listeners understand and speak the language confidently within a short span of time. This learning material will prove that by identifying the most important features of a language and by applying proven techniques and strategies to language learning, anyone can master the basics of the language and use this knowledge base to start speaking confidently and properly in Spanish in as little as seven days. Finally, a conclusion to make sure you've learned and supply you with a final list of tips Don't look any further, we've got what you need right here! In fact, we're ready to turn you into a Spanish speaker... ...are you ready to get involved in becoming one?
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Download or read book Wanderings in Four Continents written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glimpses of Four Continents written by Wilma Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dan to Beersheba written by Archibald Ross Colquhoun and published by London, Heinemann. This book was released on 1908 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages written by N. Hornberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.
Download or read book Around the World in 80 Months Travels and Reflections in four continents 2007 2014 written by Peter G Emery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part reminiscence, part commentary, Around the World in 80 Months presents the author's 'take' on people and places in widely differing cultures during the period 2007-2014. Being based in three continents afforded opportunities to observe social and cultural realities in a variety of countries, while catching up with family and friends enabled him and his wife to roam through a fourth. Around the World in 80 Months is a celebration of sharing the joys of retirement and un-retirement, of negotiating the unexpected and of finding common cause with others.
Download or read book My Life in Four Continents written by Charles Chaillé-Long and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Intimacies of Four Continents written by Lisa Lowe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
Download or read book The Four Continents written by Osbert Sitwell and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1954 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discursions on travel, art and life.
Download or read book The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics written by Manuel Diaz-Campos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in contemporary Hispanic sociolinguistics. Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist approaches, Spanish and its importance in the U.S., language planning, and other topics focused on the social aspects of Spanish Includes several varieties of Spanish, reflecting the rich diversity of dialects spoken in the Americas and Spain
