Los ojos de una ciudad china

Intermediate. It is 1792, and Spain is in crisis. The Inquisition is sweeping the country, making life dangerous for court painter Francisco Goya and his beautiful model Ines. From the reader series Aprende Espanol Con..., which features stories based on modern films and television series, carefully adapted for Spanish language students. Includes an Audio CD of the text, supplementary materials for teachers, and before and after activities for students.

From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential...

Seminar paper del año 2009 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 15/20, Université Catholique de Louvain, Idioma: Español, Resumen: En su obra Don Quijote, Cervantes nos enseña sus consideraciones a propósito de las nuevas normativas de vida que aparecieron en la Edad Moderna. En esta época se nota la aparición de una nueva forma política, el Estado. El autor, a través de su personaje, nos presenta una crítica en la cual se desarrollan diversos temas, como los del dinero, del ejército y de la burocracia. Según José Antonio Maravall, estos...

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