This is the seventeenth Spanish lesson in a regular series. It contains a passage from the writings of Pio Baroja. The exercises include questions on the passage and its vocabulary, exercises on the syntax of verbs, with emphasis on the subjunctive, translation exercises from English, and other drills. (Text is in Spanish.) (TL)

There are four demonstrative adjectives in Spanish: "este,""ese,""aquel," and "el" (which is the same as the definite article). When "este", "ese," and "aquel" do not modify a noun, they have an accent mark (except in the neuter forms) and have the function of pronouns. The singular and plural articles in Spanish are derived from the Latin…

Contrastive analysis of Spanish and English reveals the importance of giving as much attention to suprasegmentals as to segmentals in the teaching of pronunciation. (CFM)

Twelve Spanish-speaking adults learning English as a second language were tested using the Bilingual Syntax Measure and their errors were analysed. Eight of them were subsequently presented with their errors in written form and asked to correct them. The 12 adults produced a total of 451 errors, of which 20.6% were due to interference from…

Part 8 of a continued article. (SK)

Sixth part of a continuing series. (SK)

Compares use of pronouns and adverbs in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, English, German, Rumanian, and Slavic languages. Excerpted from the book Fisonomia del y de las lenguas modernas'' ( Features of Modern Languages''). (DS)

Conclusion of an article begun in the December 1972--January 1973 issue. (DS)

Second part of a continuing series on generative grammar. (DS)

Usage of the conjunctions sino" and pero" ( but") are discussed from the English speaking students' point of view. General criteria for choice involve sentence structure and semantics. (DS)