Spanish Reading Selections: La Galería, Havana

Spanish Reading Selections: La Galería, Havana via http://lagaleria-restaurante.com/ … A word about reading texts in their original language: This is freaking hard! Yup. Languages can be complicated! Can’t I just use Google translate on this stuff and read it in English? I guess you could… Then why should I read this? Because reading texts like […]

Spanish Reading Selections: Pan de Lujo, Madrid

Spanish Reading Selections: Pan de Lujo, Madrid via http://www.pandelujo.es/ … A word about reading texts in their original language: This is freaking hard! Yup. Languages can be complicated! Can’t I just use Google translate on this stuff and read it in English? I guess you could… Then why should I read this? Because reading texts […]

Instructional Resources: Language Reading Skills

… Reading Strategies for Modern Languages: The readings selected during this semester were designed with two purposes in mind: (1) To provide information you are capable of understanding. (2) To give you confidence in reading in the language you are studying. Before reading, you should determine what your purpose for reading is, as this will […]

French Reading: Food and Dining – Les menus

French Reading: Food and Dining – Les menus via The LEAF Project (Click on the Images to Embiggen!) Questions: TBA The LEAF Project www.leaflanguages.org Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Hispanic Culture: Social Courtesies and Small Talk

Hispanic Culture: Social Courtesies and Small Talk Spanish and Latin American societies tend to be quite traditional; strict conventions govern social behavior. Although economic, social, and political events have brought about many changes in the makeup of society and in the roles of both men and women, a strong sense of family still prevails and […]

Hispanic Culture: The Familiar (Informal) Form “Tú”

Hispanic Culture: The Familiar (Informal) Form “Tú” The use of the familiar “tú” form will vary quite a bit from country to country, from region to region within a given country, from family to family, and among individuals. The familiar form is used more readily in some countries than in others; however, in recent years […]

French Reading: Census – Peignez Un Nouveau Portrait De L’Amérique

French Reading: Census – Peignez Un Nouveau Portrait De L’Amérique (Click on the Image to Embiggen!) Questions: Who does the Census information benefit?