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¿Libros similares a "Lecciones de Lengua Castellana"?
En casa de mis padres me reencontré el otro día una copia bastante vieja ya del libro Lecciones de lengua castellana (Edición americana) - Curso superior, por Colecciones G. M. Bruño.
Es un libro que ...
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Looking for Spanish writing that is humorous in nature to help with comprehension
Apologies if this question isn't exactly in line with this forum, but I would appreciate some help if possible.
I have been doing some language exchange and have found that the use of humorous ...
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What is the best book to learn synonyms?
I have been learning Spanish for a couple of years now, but I think that learning synonyms will help me improve quicker.
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Need a good legal glossary
I'm looking for a good legal glossary -- could be added to Resources for learning Spanish / Recursos para aprender español
Alternatively a concise introduction to legal concepts and terminology ...
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¿Cómo se utiliza la 'Nueva gramática. Morfología y sintaxis' de la RAE en linea?
Quiero indagar unos asuntos gramaticales y los he buscado en la 'Nueva Gramática, Manual" de la RAE. Aunque me han ayudado las entradas en ese libro, quería ver si hay explicaciones más extensas ...
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"Se de matización" (por ejemplo, 'bajar vs bajarse') en el español peninsular: ¿cómo entenderlo?
Estoy intentando entender las diferencias entre verbos como 'bajar' y 'bajarse', 'morir' y 'morirse', 'quedar' y 'quedarse', 'ir' y 'irse', etc.
Con 'ir' y 'irse' se me ha hablado de lo 'incoativo': ...
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Looking for a website to essentially proofread my Spanish?
I am looking for a check my work website to ask for feedback. I know that this website is not for check my work questions. Just wondering where it might be a good place to go?
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Libros recomendados sobre la historia de la lengua española
Estoy buscando una recomendación de un buen libro sobre la historia de la lengua española. No soy filólogo, por tanto no creo que un texto académico sea adecuado. Aún así, me gustaría algo riguroso, ...
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¿Existen alternativas al diccionario inverso Dirae?
La web de nuestra amadísima Dirae muestra este mensaje:
Lo sentimos, Dirae.es cesa en su actividad por amenazas legales de la Real Academia Española por uso de su marca registrada "RAE".
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Where can I find a platform like conversifi to exchange English lessons for Spanish?
I would like to practice conversing with Spanish speakers in exchange for English. Someone told me about conversify but I have not been able to find it for Spanish. Does anyone else have a website ...
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¿Ha publicado la RAE un diccionario de sinónimos?
La RAE mantiene/contribuye a varios diccionarios:
Diccionario de la lengua española
Diccionario del español jurídico
Diccionario de americanismos
Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
¿Ha publicado ...
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Useful resources for learning Spanish grammar at home?
I've recently begun learning Spanish, and while I'm gaining a good understanding of vocabulary, I can't seem to find many effective resources for studying the grammar, without having to pay a lot of ...
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What's the difference between the various context dictionaries available for Spanish (e.g., Tatoeba, Reverso, Linguee, ...)?
A few years ago I discovered my first online context dictionary — Tatoeba. Up until then, I had never seen anything quite like it (other than Google Translate) and immediately began using it on a ...
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¿Existe un catálogo con todos los libros (en sus distintas ediciones) publicados en Español?
Estoy buscando todas las ediciones de un libro en particular. Para eso, sería ideal encontrar un catálogo online (por ejemplo, de una universidad, biblioteca pública, academia de lengua) que contenga ...
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How is "layout and design" translated into Spanish?
Anyone with a background in journalism or some similar field will have been introduced to the phrase "layout and design," a phrase I am having difficulty finding a good, solid, standard Spanish ...
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¿Hay recursos buenos para ampliar el vocabulario español avanzado? [closed]
He llegado a un punto donde domino bastante bien el castellano, pero quiero aumentar mi vocabulario avanzado. Sé perfectamente que la mejor manera hacerlo es leer y buscar las palabras no conocidas ...
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Frequency list for morphemes
Being a native speaker of English, and having a reasonably large English-language vocabulary, especially for words of Latin origin, and having studied Latin in high school, I tend to be reasonably ...
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Manual on the Spanish language [duplicate]
I'm interested in a documentation on the Spanish language. Like really concise - similar to the documentation of a computer language.
There's a lot of bloat on learning languages online or sometimes ...
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¿Existen los diccionarios connotativos? [duplicate]
A veces me encuentro en la encrucijada de querer escribir algo, pero cuando lo hago trato de buscar que las mismas palabras que utilizo connoten lo que el narrador está sintiendo o trate de narrar ...
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Resources for learning Spanish / Recursos para aprender español
This is a canonical question / Esta es una pregunta canónica
This is a specifically created Community Wiki which gathers resources for learning Spanish and it has been approved by the Community ...
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¿Hay alguna manera de enlazar búsquedas del CORDE o del NTLLE?
Pues eso. Básicamente, la RAE tiene a disposición del público dos* pedazo de recursos: el CORDE, un corpus del español escrito en los últimos 10 siglos; y el NTLLE, un "diccionario de diccionarios" ...
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Is there an official list of Spanish onomatopoeia?
An onomatopoeia is a word that represents a sound.
onomatopeya.
Del lat. tardío onomatopoeia, y este del gr. ὀνοματοποιΐα onomatopoiḯa.
f. Formación de una palabra por imitación del ...
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What does "vt", "vpr" and "vi" mean when referring to verbs in a Spanish dictionary?
Does anybody comprehend these abbreviations in the image, used in Oxford's Essential Spanish Dictionary?
It says:
venga|nza f revenge. ~r vt avenge. ~rse vpr take revenge (de, por for) (en on). ~...
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¿Hay un banco terminológico en español?
Hay una herramienta de traducción de euskera que a mí me resulta muy útil e interesante, lo llaman banco terminológico, aquí el enlace: Euskalterm. Buscas una palabra y en los resultados te aparece ...
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What books explain Spanish's difficulties? [closed]
I use explicate (the cognate of explicar) to mean 'conjecture or explain possible reasons or origins', rather than books like Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish and 1001 Pitfalls in Spanish which ...
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Native-speaking Spanish radio station or podcast for learning? [duplicate]
Scouring TunedIn and Google search results, I've been unable to find a good talk radio station in Spanish. This is not a technical question, but rather a question about where to find the tools I need ...
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Recursos que comparen el español de España y el sudamericano [closed]
Aprendí el español con una profesora madrileña, pero vivo en las Américas y mis amigos hispanohablantes son todos de Sudamérica así que ahora mi español es una mezcla de español de España y otros ...
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¿Existe alguna clasificación de palabras para determinar si son positivas o negativas?
Investigando un poco sobre el análisis automático de textos, me interesó mucho esta parte de "análisis sentimental" (sentimental analysis / opinion mining). Me gustaría profundizar algo más en el tema ...
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Download Spanish–English translations (esp. conjugations) as Open Data [duplicate]
I'm learning Spanish conjugations and using sites like Conjugemos. I like these time-intensive conjugation drills since they drive conjugations into procedural memory: after a while in the exercise, I ...
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Library of old scanned manuscripts or handwritings in Spanish?
This is an example of such online libraries but in other languages:
manuscripts in Persian or Arabic
May you offer some places that I can find papers in Spanish ?
Whether online (free) or for sale?
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Does the Spanish Wikipedia use correct Spanish?
Can I expect that the Spanish used on the Spanish-language Wikipedia, such as this article is standard Spanish, or are they just articles originally written in English that have been translated into ...
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Diccionario inverso en línea / Online reverse dictionary
Me interesa saber si existe un diccionario de español en línea, en donde se puedan buscar las palabras por las últimas y no por las primeras letras.
Por ejemplo:
Si uno desea buscar caramba, uno ...
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Participating in a Spanish proficiency test? [closed]
I speak Spanish daily now, but feel I'm not learning many new things any more (although there is still much for me to learn).
As I will have some more time in the coming months, I was thinking of ...
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How can I learn basic vocabulary? [duplicate]
I am learning Spanish (Castellano) and want to expand my vocabulary.
There are many vocabulary trainers out there. But some do not come with predefined words and others contain them all. I want to ...
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Are there any free bilingual books in Spanish and English? [closed]
I guess bilingual books may speed up the learning process a little bit.
Thanks!
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Good *extensible* dictionary software? [closed]
I am looking for a software that could help me create my own dictionary (extension). While there are excellent dictionaries for Spanish out there both freely available on the web as well as commercial ...
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Spanish word list for statistical analysis [closed]
I need a Spanish word list, as simple as that.
The more complete it is, the better, it should contain as many words as to be a statistically relevant sample.
It can be in any format, xml, excel, txt, ...
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Audio maps of Spanish dialects?
Apart from vocabulary differences, the Spanish language has an enormous and fascinating diversity in pronunciation and accents. In my country (Argentina) people from the central inland region have a ...
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Free online resources for beginner course [duplicate]
Along with this question, what are good, free online resources to learn Spanish?
Important areas such as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation should be covered.
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Spanish etymology resources [duplicate]
Many questions on this site have been about the etymology of a particular word or phrase. For English, resources like the Oxford English Dictionary often give researched etymologies full of details ...
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Translating medicine names to Spanish
I have sometimes run into cases where I want to translate the name of a medication into Spanish, but can't find the specific medicine name in a dictionary (e.g. amoxicillin, acetaminophen). This is ...
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List of most commonly used Spanish words
When learning vocabulary in a new language, it is useful to focus on very commonly used words first. Are there any resources online (or in print) that give a list of the most frequently occurring ...
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American style TV shows in Spanish [duplicate]
Are there American style TV shows that could be used to practice listening Spanish. By American style I mean
Each episode around 30 minutes in length
Although it helps to watch them in sequence, ...
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