Spanish Idioms in Practice: Understanding Language and Culture

Author:   Javier Muñoz-Basols ,  Yolanda Pérez Sinusía ,  Marianne David (Trinity School, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415533911


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   08 August 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Javier Muñoz-Basols ,  Yolanda Pérez Sinusía ,  Marianne David (Trinity School, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415533911


ISBN 10:   0415533910
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   08 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Capítulo 1. Expresiones idiomáticas con comidas, animales, árboles y plantas, y otros elementos de la naturaleza. Capítulo 2. Expresiones idiomáticas con las partes del cuerpo. Capítulo 3. Expresiones idiomáticas con partes de la casa, objetos, ropa y colores. Capítulo 4. Expresiones idiomáticas con lugares, personajes de la historia y de la literatura, nacionalidades y tradiciones culturales. Capítulo 5. Expresiones introducidas por preposiciones. Capítulo 6. Refranes populares. Answer Key. Index.

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Engaging from its very first page, this outstanding book allows students to master the intricacies of Spanish idiomatic language. The authors have created a unique resource that will help students learn hundreds of idiomatic expressions and, most importantly, practice and understand them in context. Carefully crafted learning activities, and varied samples of literary and journalistic texts from different Spanish-speaking countries, illustrate the meticulous research into the use of idiomatic expressions conducted by the authors prior to writing the book. Professors and teachers of Spanish will be delighted to include this exceptional resource in their course syllabi as a means of teaching students to use the Spanish language with the same vividness as native speakers do. I would also recommend this book to native and bilingual Spanish speakers who are interested in expanding their familiarity with idiomatic language and learning about its origins. - Professor Domnita Dumitrescu, California State University, Los Angeles I found this to be an excellent guide to Spanish idioms, their meanings and their uses. A combination of good, clear explanations (for example of the origins of some idiomatic expressions), impressive illustrations and thoughtful exercises should enable students to remember and use the host of everyday idioms featured. This most difficult of areas for the non-native speaker is cleverly and memorably broken down so that students of Spanish will feel able to make use of a rich array of expressions which may previously have been only passively registered. - Dr Jonathan Thacker, Merton College, University of Oxford This book provides students and teachers with an excellent, up-to-date guide to Spanish idiomatic language. Carefully documented and drawing on diverse sources, it offers a rich selection of the most widely-used idioms in both Spain and Latin America. Students will find a large number of idiomatic expressions usefully classified into semantic fields (food, human body, clothes, nationalities, historical and cultural references, etc.), as well as a wealth of linguistic and cultural information. The inclusion of an answer key to all the exercises and activities makes the book suitable for independent study. Thanks to activities with a strong visual component, useful chapter summaries, engaging self-assessment activities and opportunities for writing practice, students will learn to speak and write Spanish with vividness and clarity. Spanish Idioms in Practice is an essential resource for achieving genuine fluency in the language. - Professor Leonor Ruiz Gurillo, University of Alicant


Engaging from its very first page, this outstanding book allows students to master the intricacies of Spanish idiomatic language. The authors have created a unique resource that will help students learn hundreds of idiomatic expressions and, most importantly, practice and understand them in context. Carefully crafted learning activities, and varied samples of literary and journalistic texts from different Spanish-speaking countries, illustrate the meticulous research into the use of idiomatic expressions conducted by the authors prior to writing the book. Professors and teachers of Spanish will be delighted to include this exceptional resource in their course syllabi as a means of teaching students to use the Spanish language with the same vividness as native speakers do. I would also recommend this book to native and bilingual Spanish speakers who are interested in expanding their familiarity with idiomatic language and learning about its origins. - Professor Domnita Dumitrescu, California State University, Los Angeles I found this to be an excellent guide to Spanish idioms, their meanings and their uses. A combination of good, clear explanations (for example of the origins of some idiomatic expressions), impressive illustrations and thoughtful exercises should enable students to remember and use the host of everyday idioms featured. This most difficult of areas for the non-native speaker is cleverly and memorably broken down so that students of Spanish will feel able to make use of a rich array of expressions which may previously have been only passively registered. - Dr Jonathan Thacker, Merton College, University of Oxford This book provides students and teachers with an excellent, up-to-date guide to Spanish idiomatic language. Carefully documented and drawing on diverse sources, it offers a rich selection of the most widely-used idioms in both Spain and Latin America. Students will find a large number of idiomatic expressions usefully classified into semantic fields (food, human body, clothes, nationalities, historical and cultural references, etc.), as well as a wealth of linguistic and cultural information. The inclusion of an answer key to all the exercises and activities makes the book suitable for independent study. Thanks to activities with a strong visual component, useful chapter summaries, engaging self-assessment activities and opportunities for writing practice, students will learn to speak and write Spanish with vividness and clarity. Spanish Idioms in Practice is an essential resource for achieving genuine fluency in the language. - Professor Leonor Ruiz Gurillo, University of Alicant Es sabido que las expresiones idiomaticas forman una parte importante de las particularidades de una lengua y su cultura, y que su presencia en el lexicon mental del hablante nativo es fundamental. En este sentido, Spanish Idioms in Practice resulta un material de gran utilidad para que el estudiante de espanol llegue a ser competente en su reconocimiento y uso. En especial, esta obra resulta motivadora y dinamica tanto por las ilustraciones que la acompanan como por la gran variedad de actividades que posee. Concretamente, son de gran valor las tablas de referencia dedicadas a explicar el origen de las expresiones, pues facilitan la comprension de su significado, y las tablas que recogen de forma sintetica las equivalencias de las expresiones en espanol y en ingles, lo cual es altamente beneficioso para estudiantes con lengua materna inglesa. -Clara Urena Tormo, LinRed / Linguistica en la Red 11, 2013 (http://www.linred.es/resenas_pdf/LR_resena55_03122013.pdf)


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Javier Muñoz-Basols is Senior Instructor in Spanish at the University of Oxford. Yolanda Pérez Sinusía teaches at the Official School of Languages and at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. Marianne David is Adjunct Professor of Spanish at Pace University in New York.

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