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Want to learn Spanish quickly and effortlessly? Do you struggle with speaking Spanish in everyday conversations like ordering food or asking for directions? Conversational Spanish Made Easy is your ultimate beginner's guide to mastering Spanish naturally, without stress or confusion. Whether you’re planning a trip, building new relationships, or looking to expand your career goals, this book will give you confidence in speaking Spanish—fast and effectively.

Ladies and gentlemen, hold onto your sombreros, because I've got something muy caliente for you! Get ready to embark on the language-learning adventure of a lifetime. Are you sick and tired of feeling like a clueless gringo every time you try to speak Spanish? Well, get ready to kick those language-learning frustrations to the curb, because this audiobook is about to blow your mind!

Argentina, 1939: “My darling Valentina, I beg you to not go through with this marriage. I know your duty to your family means the world to you, but I pray our love means more. Let us run away together, and never be parted again…” London, Present day. Rose once thought she was alone in the world, having just lost her beloved mother a few months ago. So, when she is presented with a mysterious box containing a small figure of a horse, a scrap of glittering silk and the hope of a lost family being found, Rose will stop at nothing to find them.

Learn Spanish: Must-Know Spanish Slang Words & Phrases by SpanishPod101.com is designed for beginner-level learners. You learn the top 100 must-know slang words and phrases that are used in everyday speech. All were hand-picked by our team of Spanish teachers and experts.

Energy is nothing, talent is nothing and even luck is nothing. Putting in long hours is nothing. Without it, even a trivial task becomes a big mountain. FOCUS is a superpower and rare skill in the present chaotic and uncertain world, where minds cannot stay still for more than a few seconds. This small book is an effort to wrestle back some of our focus from the chaos of present times.

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers such as William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal whipped Americans into frenzy by claiming that Spain's "secret infernal machine" had destroyed the battleship. Soon after, the blandly handsome and easily influenced President McKinley declared war, sending troops not only to Cuba but also to the Philippines.

Uncover the connection between a teenager coming of age in 1960s America and pirates from the 1700s in a epic romance that spans centuries.In the the summer of 1966, teen "shag" dancer Billy Dunagan and his two friends are working as lifeguards at Ocean Drive along the South Carolina coast. When Billy falls for a girl with a mysterious connection to the past, he's drawn into the perfect storm of circumstances that will change his life forever.Billy's new life unfolds in sometimes exhilarating, sometimes heartbreaking ways, and on this journey, he discovers his wife's mysterious past that ...

¡Hola, future Spanish speaker! Are you ready to dive into "Spanish Language Lessons for Beginners" and watch as the vibrant cultures of Spain and Latin America come alive in your ears? Imagine confidently ordering paella in Madrid, haggling at a colorful Mexican mercado, or dancing salsa in Havana – all in flawless Spanish. This isn't just an audiobook; it's your passport to heartwarming connections across the Spanish-speaking world.

What can one young boy do against a man determined to conquer an empire?Horses, sailing ships, Mayans, pyramids and conquistadors... Unbroken is being hailed as “a great read for all ages!” Felipe Ferrer's young life is turned upside down when Hernan Cortes rides into the Ferrer stable yard. Cortes, planning to lead his conquistadors to Mexico, is in desperate need of horses. When Felipe’s father refuses to sell his prize stallion, Majesty, Cortes cheats him out of the horse and sends Ferrer to debtor’s prison. To save Felipe from the same fate his father arranges for the boy to go ...

PHILANDERER – A ROGUE’S LIFE IN SPAIN is an entertaining account of the half of Gilbert Wolfe’s life which he has spent in Spain. In FINDING MY FEET our hero arrives in Alicante with money in his pocket and a taste for adventure after two years of flat-sharing and commuting in London. Weary of the daily grind, he plans to pursue his ongoing studies of the fairer sex and encounter that elusive happy medium between work and idleness. Keen to learn the language as quickly as possible in order to exercise his charms to good effect, the clever but inherently indolent Englishman is quick ...

*All three books in the series are now available in an omnibus edition under the title THREE MEN IN SPAIN* IT’S NOT ABOUT THE VAN is Harry Storrar’s account of a year spent making multiple trips around Spain with his Belgian wife Laura in their curious camper van, Bambi. After his friend Jeremy described Bambi’s initial north to south journey in THREE MEN IN A VAN, and Geoff followed it up with the extremely imaginative story of his solo adventures in ONE MAN IN A VAN, Laura thought it only right that Harry should complete the cycle by writing a book of his own, with her inestimable ...

Growing up listening to the stories of their grandfather’s adventure, Oli’s grandsons dream of leaving Elkader and experience the excitement of the 19th century frontier. Revelations from their grandmother add a dynamic unanticipated by the cousins. The boys left knowing that they might never return to the home and life they had always known.

Ianna McClarrin has just embarked on what should be the most exciting time of her life. A beautiful young woman from a a proper English family, she is on her way to France with her father and sister to visit her fiance and his family. The excitement that should accompany such a journey is replaced by dread as she heads towards a future she wishes to take no part in. Left with no alternatives but to follow her father's wishes she resigns herself to an Inevitable fate. Inevitable until their ship is boarded by pirates setting off a chain of events that lead Ianna down a drastically different ...

Learn the basic phrases for communicating in Spanish. Get the tools you need to feel comfortable in a conversation. Discover the most common phrases in Spanish through numerous examples. Listen to fun stories and learn more about Spanish culture. Answer questions to test your understanding. Study the basic ways to introduce yourself and meet other people. Learn how to solve conflicts in Spanish.

Nobody needs telling that there isn't enough time. We're obsessed by our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Yet we rarely make the conscious connection that these problems only trouble us in the first place, thanks to the ultimate time-management problem: the challenge of how best to use our 4,000 weeks. Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of this problem.

This volume in a series of world history case studies analyzes Spanish colonialism in the early seventeenth century by examining the career of Diego Fernández de Córdoba. Fernández served as viceroy of both New Spain (Mexico) and Peru during a period that featured strained race relations, new socio-economic tensions, and bitter conflicts between Catholic religious orders. His measured responses to Jews, the Inquisition, women, and local rebellions reveal a man determined to hold a vast empire together through the power of compromise. What emerges is a new understanding of an often-...

The road to the modern age of cultural harmony and acceptance is one of the finest feats of human progress, but having said that, there was once a time when the mere doubt of a religious figure's existence was not only punishable by law, it could very well cost a man his life. This was the crime of heresy.

Castilian Spanish Phase 1, Unit 1 contains 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and isolated vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. The lesson contains full practice for all vocabulary introduced in this unit.

Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target. After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mom decides it's time for a change of environment. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don't remember or have never met. But Marcus can't focus knowing that his father - who walked out of their lives 10 years ago - is somewhere on the island.

In this stand-alone story, (that is now part of a series) two recently graduated friends uncover an international fraud, but there is plenty of fun along the way to exposing it as Bobbie seeks her own form of revenge on those who cross her. This fast-moving light-hearted thriller moves from romance to hilarious adventure and back again with the gentle Bob Able humour and his distinctive writing style much in evidence. The story involves and captivates the reader, with an unexpected twist at the end, of course. Read on to find out more about Bobbie's adventures, a romance in Spain, how she ...