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The story of Spanish / Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nadeau, Jean-Benoît
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish language--History.
- Spanish language.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 428 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- The land of the rabbits
- Vulgar language
- Waiting for the Godos
- Almost Arabic
- The curious case of Castilian
- The King's speech
- The prince of language buffs
- The world according to Portugal
- Fourteen Ninety-two
- New turf
- The accidental grammarian
- A loss for words
- The canary effect
- The missionary position
- Moving Norte
- Golden Age
- Sunset on Spanish
- The Bourbon identity
- The secret lives of language academies
- Riding the tiger
- Standard shift
- Enter the United States
- The Spanish Renaissance
- The Latin rage
- Learning curve
- The Franco years
- The secret agent of the boom
- From ketchup to salsa
- I say Spanglish, you way Spanish
- Spanish dollars
- The department of urgent Spanish
- The language of the Cervantes
- Traces of the future
- Appendixes. Spanish speakers by country ; Spanish speakers, other countries ; Learners of Spanish as a foreign language ; Influence of language by absolute numbers ; Influence of Spanish by rank
- Hispanic Nobel prizes by country.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-408) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312656027
- 0312656025
- OCLC:
- 828626797
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