Language Research Guide

It's an informal and practical approach to conversational Spanish for English speakers who have no knowledge of Spanish but need to learn some basics for work in social services. Family counselors, members of the clergy, welfare and public benefits workers of all kinds, and just ordinary neighbors who start learning Spanish with help from this book will pick up frequently used phrases and enough of the language to ask questions, offer advice, and understand the replies from their Spanish-speaking clients and friends.

Drawing on the major new edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Spanish Dictionary published in 2003, this third edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains up-to-date coverage of over 170,000 words and phrases, and 240,000 translations, with hundreds of new words in each language. New additions include bioterrorism, rate tart, spread betting, stability pact, and stealth tax. This new edition also includes the introduction of some popular features of the Oxford Spanish Dictionary such as a spread on text messaging in Spanish, and notes on the life and culture of countries of the Spanish-speaking world.The design has been transformed by the use of colour and a new presentation of the dictionary information, making this dictionary more accessible and easier than ever to use, and an essential tool for those who need an authoritative and concise guide to Spanish and English.The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary is also available as a Curriculum Online accredited CD-ROM: Pop-up Oxford Spanish Dictionary on CD-ROM (Windows® only), ISBN 0-19-860953-1.

This guide enables English-speaking health care providers to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. It focuses on practical language skills used in first aid and emergency situations, routine home visits, admission, and testing. Short reviews are included at the end of each unit.

Written in the award-winning Incredibly Easy! style, this updated and expanded Second Edition helps make learning to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients easy and fun. This handy guide covers examination and testing of all body systems, signs and symptoms, and diagnostic tests. Words and phrases associated with medication, procedures, and nutrition are also included. Appendices include bilingual patient-teaching aids, a quick reference guide to key medical terms, and a picture dictionary of common objects. Indexes appear in both English and Spanish, and basic rules of Spanish pronunciation and grammar are covered.

English & Spanish Medical Words & Phrases, Fourth Edition is a handy, pocket-sized reference covering thousands of key terms and phrases used in clinician-patient interactions. It's the perfect resource for nurses and other health care professionals who care for Spanish-speaking patients or whose primary language is Spanish. The book covers important terms related to every aspect of patient care, including systems assessment, patient teaching, discharge, medical equipment and supplies, diagnostic tests, treatments, nutrition and diet therapy, and complementary and alternative therapies. Anatomical illustrations are included to facilitate communication. This Fourth Edition includes an English-Spanish picture dictionary and Spanish pain-rating scales.

As doctors' time becomes more limited, communication with patients becomes more important and the need for doctor-patient understanding becomes critical. Here is a book that helps bridge the gap between the professional language of health care providers and that of people whose first language is Spanish. A staple of southwestern health care for more than twenty years, this dictionary can make a difference in patient care. Now available in a revised edition, it focuses on vocabulary used in health contexts by Spanish-speaking people in order to help patients tell their stories and medical practitioners to understand them. Unlike other bilingual dictionaries that emphasize scientific terms, this one focuses on standard Spanish terms as well as regional expressions peculiar to Mexican Spanish--language encountered in Chicago as easily as in Phoenix. In the Spanish-to-English section, Spanish terms are followed by English translations and sample sentences to help health care practitioners understand how a patient might use them: acedías, heartburn, pain in lower esophagus perceived as in the heart. Uno tiene la tendencia a sufrir de acedías después de comer chile. One has a tendency to suffer heartburn after eating chile. (syn: acidez, agruras del estómago) In the English-to-Spanish section, English words are translated into simple Spanish terms along with English synonyms. Now available in a revised edition, this handy reference features: * more than 3,000 entries * new entries that reflect current health problems and treatments * inclusion of cognates * Spanish definitions of English words * anatomical drawings with bilingual labels * more material on medicinal plants, including an appendix of poisonous and non-poisonous plants * lists of food items and kinship terms This book is an indispensable reference for all health care professionals who see patients of Mexican origin. Combining idiomatic precision with technical accuracy, it can help break down language barriers on either side of the border.

Translated by Rosa Zubizarreta. Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.

This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since. Its coverage ranges from colonial times to the present day, the later chapters having been radically rewritten to take account of the most recent developments in both literature and criticism. The book sets the literary works discussed in their historical, political and economic context, and explores the impact on Latin-American literature of European cultural traditions. English translations are provided for Spanish quotations in the text, and the extensively updated reading lists of primary and secondary material refer not only to Spanish texts but also, where available, to editions in English.