This book exemplifies learning the Spanish language within its cultural context—an approach that incorporates the products, perspectives, and practices important to understanding the Hispanic culture, while including the vocabulary and structures that are required to communicate within it. It contains fifteen lecciones, topically organized and designed to encourage communication and offer insight into the language and culture of over 300 million people. Chapter topics include Spanish names and nicknames; universities in Spanish speaking countries; shopping; reading advertisements; making travel arrangements; expressing wishes and daily routines; persuading others; exchanging money at the bank; and the media. For individuals interested in learning the culture behind the vocabulary and grammar of the Spanish language.
About the author
Eduardo Zayas-Bazán is Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University. He was chairman of ETSU's foreign language department for twenty years. Zayas-Bazán has a M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. He has been president of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and of the National Association of Cuban-American Educators. He is the coauthor, coeditor and translator of eighteen books, among them the best sellers ¡Arriba!, Conexiones, and Fusión, published by Pearson-Prentice Hall. Zayas-Bazán is the coauthor of The Flying Fish, a historical novel about the sequence of events that led to a chaotic transformation of political allegiances in the western hemisphere and brought the world to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. The Spanish version of the novel, El pez volador, is also available in Amazon.
Zayas-Bazán is married to Lourdes Abascal. He lives in Miami, FL since his retirement in 1999.
