Let's go to the Beach / Vámonos a la playa


Book Description

Bilingual Books for Kids Learning to Read Summer is here and it's time to head to the beach! Help your kids get reading this summer with this level 1 reader from Nancy Streza. In this checklist-style book, beginning readers will use visual cues to figure out new words and build confidence. Discover Reading series books from Xist Publishing are created with digital and print reading in mind. Each page features a photograph with descriptive text leveled for early readers. Libros bilingües para niños que aprenden a leer ¡El verano está aquí y es hora de ir a la playa! Ayude a sus hijos a leer este verano con este lector de nivel 1 de Nancy Streza. En este libro de estilo de lista de verificación, los lectores principiantes usarán señales visuales para descubrir nuevas palabras y crear confianza. Los libros de la serie Discover Reading de Xist Publishing se crean teniendo en cuenta la lectura digital y la impresión. Cada página ofrece una fotografía con el texto descriptivo nivelado para los lectores tempranos.




Spanish Voices 2


Book Description

Spanish Voices is a two-part series designed to provide learners with an opportunity to hear and study authentic Spanish as it is spoken by native speakers from around Latin America and Spain. Unlike the scripted materials read by voice actors used in many course books, Spanish Voices offers dozens of audio essays spoken naturally and off-the-cuff. The materials in the books are designed to help you improve your listening skills and expand your vocabulary in Spanish. Bonus: The MP3s can be downloaded for free from our website, where you can also find interactive flashcards, quizzes, and games, as well as links to further listening and reading practice on the topics presented in the segments (audio essay chapters). Each segment consists of: 1) True or False and Multiple Choice exercises to sharpen your listening skills and increase how much you can understand, whatever your level. 2) Vocabulary and Translation exercises to help you expand your vocabulary and improve your understanding of Spanish collocations and grammar. 3) In-chapter answers to the exercises (no having to flip back and forth to the back of the book). 4) Verbatim transcripts of the audio with side-by-side English translations. 5) Lined sections for note-taking and recording new vocabulary.




Play and Learn Spanish (Book + Audio CD)


Book Description

Over 50 fun songs, games and everyday activities to get started in Spanish! From taking a bath to going shopping, books in the Play and Learn Language series turn everyday routines into fun language-learning activities for parents and children. Packed with lively four-color illustrations, each package features: Fun songs, games, and activities Key word illustrations Engaging comic strips Sidebars with fun cultural information English translations for all activities Packaged inside each book is an audio CD that includes all the songs, games, and expressions in the course.




Learn Spanish - Level 4: Beginner


Book Description

Listen to audio lessons, while you read along! Buy or sample now! Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner Spanish - a completely new way to learn Spanish with ease! Beginner Spanish will arm you with Spanish and cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your Spanish friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Beginner Spanish: - 160+ pages of Spanish learning material - 25 Spanish lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section - 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (over 6.5 hours of Spanish lessons) - 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases) - 25 Audio Dialog Tracks (read along while you listen) This book is the most powerful way to learn Spanish. Guaranteed. You get the two most powerful components of our language learning system: the audio lessons and lesson notes. Why are the audio lessons so effective? - powerful and to the point - syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase so that you can say every word and phrase instantly - repeat after the professional teacher to practice proper pronunciation - cultural insight and insider-only tips from our teachers in each lesson - fun and relaxed approach to learning - effortlessly learn from bi-lingual and bi-cultural hosts as they guide you through the pitfalls and pleasures of Spain and Spanish. Why are the lesson notes so effective? - improve listening comprehension and reading comprehension by reading the dialog transcript while listening to the conversation - grasp the exact meaning of phrases and expressions with natural translations - expand your word and phrase usage with the expansion section - master and learn to use Spanish grammar with the grammar section Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning.




Canary Island Song


Book Description

When Carolyn’s grown daughter tells her she needs to “get a life,” Carolyn decides it’s time to step out of her familiar routine as a single woman in San Francisco and escape to her mother’s home in the Canary Islands. Since Carolyn’s mother is celebrating her seventieth birthday, the timing of Carolyn’s visit makes for a perfect surprise. The surprise, however, is on Carolyn when she sees Bryan Spencer, her high school summer love. It’s been seven years since Carolyn lost her husband, but ever since that tragic day, her life has grown smaller and closed in. The time has come for Carolyn to get her heart back. It takes the gentle affection of her mother and aunts, as well as the ministering beauty and song of the islands to draw Carolyn into the fullness of life. She is nudged along by a Flamenco dance lesson, a defining camel ride and the steady gaze of Bryan’s intense blue-gray eyes. Is it too late for Carolyn to trust Bryan? Can Carolyn believe that Bryan has turned into something more than the wild beach boy who stole her kisses so many years ago on a balmy Canary night? Carolyn is reminded that Christopher Columbus set sail from the Canary Islands in 1492 on his voyage to discover the New World. Is she ready to set sail from these same islands to discover her new life?




Programming with Latino Children's Materials


Book Description

This comprehensive resource offers planning and programming tips and information on the materials needed to begin, improve, or expand upon services to Latino children. Most of the suggestions are for a preschool and elementary age audience, but older children and intergenerational programs are briefly considered.




Mi primer paseo a la playa / My First Trip to the Beach


Book Description

Noah is a young boy who's never been to a beach. Readers join Noah and his good friend Will as they spend a day in the sun and sand. Will shows Noah the best ways to have fun at the beach, and shows him how to splash in the waves and build a sandcastle. Emerging readers and young listeners alike will enjoy this amusing narrative of exploration. Gorgeous, sunny illustrations are sure to draw readers' attention and aid in reader comprehension.




Basic Spanish


Book Description

Basic Spanish: Learn with Easy Conversations was created for students of Spanish who know the basics of reading and writing the language, but have trouble talking to people. It was designed to help you power through those first moments when you have no idea of what to say. It will also help you predict what others will say in return. This will vastly improve your ability to have conversations. By providing scenarios, in a multitude of settings, you can improve your confidence, increase your vocabulary and amaze your classmates, family, friends or business partners. Basic Spanish contains: - 50 conversations - 10 categories - Short conversations to aid in memorization - Unique and interesting material - Sentences constructed (mostly) in the present tense; and -10 reviews to aid in learning By reading this book you will automatically build an arsenal of phrases, sentences and entire conversations that you can use when talking with others. This book can also be used for conversation classes, language meet-ups, classrooms and among friends and family that want to improve their Spanish skills. You will be surprised by what you learn and how using this book will help you with speaking Spanish to others. Other books that may interest you: Easy Spanish by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. Real Spanish: Conversations with a Twist by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. Learn Spanish by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. Spanish: Conversations for Business by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. Spanish Small Talk by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D.




Listen & Other Stories


Book Description

Listen is a book where characters ask readers to do just that: listen to their stories, especially because many aren't the type of people who often get listened to - even though they should. These characters' trials, missed connections, and sundry challenges are full of surprises - some good, some bad, some funny, some wise, and some all this at once. Perhaps most surprising of all, there's tenderness here and a lot of heart - which often gets the collection's characters into a lot of trouble.




Amazon Wisdom Keeper


Book Description

With captivating lyricism, Amazon Wisdom Keeper transports us into the multicultural upbringing and transformation of Loraine Van Tuyl, a graduate psychology student and budding shamanic healer who’s blindsided by startling visions, elusive drumming, and her inseverable mystical ties to the Amazon rainforest of her native Suriname. Is she in the wrong field, or did her childhood dreams, imaginary guides, and premonitions somehow prepare her for these challenges? Did Suriname’s military coup and her family’s uprooting move to the US rob her from all that she knew and loved at thirteen to help reveal her soul’s purpose, or is she losing her mind by entertaining far-fetched questions and hunches that can’t be answered or proven—like wondering if her perplexing life story is shedding light on the double-binds in her field on purpose, and suspecting that her soul’s daunting blue print was plotted long before she was even born? Van Tuyl wrestles with these questions and more as she embarks upon her risky quest, enduring test upon test in search of her true self and calling while enrolled in a rigorous academic program that regards intuitive healing methods as unscientific—and even unethical.