Spanish South America

If you want to enrich your travels with the most popular and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary close at hand, then pay attention. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, and you are probably planning on visiting one of these. Whether you are traveling for work, studies or just holidays, in this audiobook, you will find 2,500 words and sentences that will help you speak fluently with locals and other travelers.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, Earworms mbt© Rapid Spanish is the course for you. Volume 1 was your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad. Volume 2 will have you talking about yourself, past, present and future, chatting, and even flirting!

Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the "Cajamarca miracle" - in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands - demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority.

This audiobook tells the story of how Spain managed to conquer the Americas in the span of half a century, from the late 1400s to the mid-1500s. Although exploitation and warfare continued between the colonizers and the colonized after this period, the largest campaigns against the indigenous peoples were undertaken in this short time span, which is the focus of this audiobook.

¿Qué es América Latina? ¿Cómo se define? América Latina comprende el Caribe, Sudamérica y México. Estas regiones son diversas en cuanto a cultura, pero comparten un vínculo común de historia que se forjó cuando el Viejo Mundo de Europa Latina se encontró con el Nuevo Mundo de las Américas. Este libro lo lleva a través de la historia de esta vasta y compleja región.

If you are interested in learning Spanish quickly and easily, then you need to listen to this book! The problem with most phrase books is that they are teaching the wrong phrases or at least uncommon phrases. This book is full of the most common phrases you will use while speaking Spanish. Designed as a quick reference and an easy-to-use study guide, this inexpensive and up-to-date book offers fast, effective communications. The perfect companion for tourists and business travelers in Spain and Latin America, it features words, phrases, and sentences that cover daily use phrases.

In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed.

Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

Change the quality of your travels to Spain and South America with this amazing phrasebook. As an educator for more than 20 years, I'm a fan of teaching others. And there is no greater challenge than to learn a language and to use that tool when traveling abroad! I created this Spanish phrasebook as a way to increase your enjoyment when traveling to such amazing places as Spain, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru.

If you like to use your drive time for education by audiobook, consider this book for widening and deepening your view of an event you studied briefly in school - the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Conquistador Voices, which relies more heavily than most works of this kind on first-person accounts, neither glamorizes nor condemns the conquistadors. Somewhat in the manner of a modern film documentary, it treats the so-called conquest as an historical event that’s worth learning about for its own sake, with most of the moralizing left to the listener.

Ante la dimisión del gobernador Francisco García, el realista Mateo de Toro y Zambrano tomó interinamente el mando. Su gobierno, que llegó en el clímax de las ideas de libertad producto de la Ilustración, tuvo que enfrentar a la dura divergencia política que se vivía en la metrópoli, Presionado, Toro y Zambrano hubo de acceder en septiembre de 1810 a convocar un cabildo abierto para decidir sobre el futuro político del país. Nadie imaginaba que ese sería el comienzo de la independencia del país.

This guide provides an overview of the the Guatemalan language and culture. The audio course covers key vocabulary for use in Guatemala including commonly used words and phrases such as greetings, questions, numbers, and colors as well as many other topics.

"Este libro de historia, aunque vaya ilustrado con caricaturas, no va en chiste: va en serio", así empieza este fascinante audio libro, un agudo recorrido por la historia del país, desde los días del Descubrimiento y la Conquista, pasando por los años de la Independencia, la Regeneración, la Hegemonía Conservadora, la República Liberal, el Frente Nacional, la época de la Violencia, hasta llegar a nuestros días.

El autor rescata en este libro episodios claves de la historia de Chile que ponen en evidencia las prácticas antidemocráticas de la elite política. Felipe Portales ha investigado minuciosamente cada uno de estos sorprendentes hechos de nuestra historia, generalmente ocultos o tergiversados en la historia oficial. El Mercurio provocó genocidio mapuche

Una oportunidad singular de conocer parte de la historia reciente de Perú a través de la vida de un hombre, Lurgio Gavilán, que relata en primera persona su paso por Sendero Luminoso y luego por las Fuerzas Armadas. Por si fuera poco, el protagonista narra también su experiencia en el convento, con lo que reúne en estas páginas los tres actores clave de los últimos años en este país: Sendero Luminoso, Ejército e Iglesia. A través de este libro, cobra inusitada relevancia la autobiografía como género para presentar una realidad con profundidad.

Dos generaciones marcadas por las cicatrices de la guerra. Una lucha ya sin rumbo, ni sentido, cargada del ambiente hostil que causa la rutina del conflicto. La Guerra de los Mil Días marcó un momento en la historia colombiana, cargado de avaricia, ansias de poder, violencia y terror, que aún retumban en las páginas de esta novela.

UNA EXTRAORDINARIA SELECCIÓN DE OBRAS ESENCIALES, EN SU MAYORÍA INÉDITAS, QUE CELEBRAN LA FUERZA, EL TALENTO Y LA DIVERSIDAD DE LAS MUJERES LATINAS, Y TIENDEN PUENTES QUE NOS CONECTAN LAS UNAS CON LAS OTRAS.

Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; desde los versos pioneros de Cecilia Vicuña, Maryse Condé, Nancy Morejón y Conceição Evaristo hasta la poesía transgresora de Elizabeth Acevedo.

El indeleble recuento del Che de la guerra revolucionaria cubana.

Esta obra narra cómo el imperio incaico, a pesar de innumerables estudios realizados hasta ahora, ha conservado celosamente bajo sus edificaciones los misterios del origen de su civilización. Este material contribuye al conocimiento y entendimiento de esta cultura sudamericana, que forma parte importante en la historia del mundo antiguo.

Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern Age. Including colorful characters like circus clowns, prostitutes, bullfighters, street puppeteers, and best-selling authors, this book maps vivid and often surprising combinations of the new and the old, the high and the low, and the political and the cultural.