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An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States

ISBN: 9780520969582
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation.

Schaum's Outline of Spanish Vocabulary

Spanish Visual Dictionary for Dummies

ISBN: 9781119717171
Publication Date: 2021-07-07
The must-have resource for your next trip to a Spanish-speaking destination. With Spanish Visual Dictionary For Dummies, you'll see words and pictures for every term, helping you build stronger connection, recognition, and recall. Chapters organized by functional themes so you can quickly order food, find landmarks, and navigate from Point A to Point B. Perfect for travelers and expats making their way around a Spanish-speaking country or neighborhood.

Decolonizing American Spanish

ISBN: 9780822988984
Publication Date: 2022-11-08
By foregrounding Latin American cultures and local varieties of Spanish and reconceptualizing the foreign as domestic, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera works to create new conceptual maps, revise inherited ones, and institutionalize marginalized and silenced voices and their stories. Considering the University of Puerto Rico as a point of context, this book brings attention to how translingual solidarity and education, a commitment to social transformation, and the engagement of student voices in their own languages can reinvent colonized education.

The Spanish Language in the United States

ISBN: 9781000531107
Publication Date: 2021-12-01
The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers' resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that racialization victims do not take their oppression meekly. It traces the rootedness of Spanish since the 1500s, when the Spanish empire began the settlement of the new land, till today, when 39 million U.S. Latinos speak Spanish at home.

An Introduction to Medical Spanish

ISBN: 9780300240603
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
As the Spanish-speaking population grows, nurses, doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly need to communicate in Spanish with their patients. ...The fifth edition of this popular textbook is designed for students with little or no formal background in the language, and uses text, audio, video, classroom activities, and electronic exercises to teach basic grammar, specialized medical vocabulary, and colloquial terms as well as Latino customs and communication styles.

Spanish Vocabulary: An Etymological Approach

ISBN: 9780292794757
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Unlike other vocabulary guides that require the rote memorization of literally thousands of words, this book starts from the premise that using the etymological connections between Spanish and English words--their common derivations from Latin, Greek, and other languages--is the most effective way to acquire and remember vocabulary.

An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States

ISBN: 9780520969582
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation.