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1) Girl mans up
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"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
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Federico García Lorca, Primer romancero gitano, edición facsimilar de la primera edición de Madrid, Revista de Occidente, 1928. Ejemplar conservado en la Biblioteca Dámaso Alonso. Madrid: JdeJ Editores, 2020.
El Romancero gitano se publicó en junio de 1928, en la Revista de Occidente. La expectación creada antes de su publicación por las varias lecturas en público que el mismo Lorca llevó a cabo hizo que esa primera edición se agotase inmediatamente.
El...
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El anticristo fue escrita por Juan Ruiz de Alarcón entre 1623 y 1625. Durante su estreno ocurrió un incidente relatado por Luis de Góngora a Hortensio Félix Paravicino: "La comedia, digo El anticristo, de don Juan de Alarcón, se estrenó el miércoles pasado. Echáronselo a perder aquel día con cierta redomilla que enterraron en medio del patio, de olor tan infernal, que desmayó a muchos de los que no pudieron salir aprisa. Este suceso aconteció...
4) Portuguese 2
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Meet Anna and Ben, the main characters of “Bilingy”, encounter their friends and follow them through their life, their careers and their little arguments, sometimes quirky, sometimes lazy and sometimes controversial, just like all of us.
“Bilingy” always has texts side by side in both languages, so you never have to puzzle about the meaning of a sentence, it's right there. New words are highlighted so you can identify them quickly and they...
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English Portuguese bilingual children's book (Brazilian). Perfect for kids studying English or Portuguese as their second language. Jimmy, the little bunny, likes to eat candy. He sneaks into the kitchen to find a bag with candies that was hidden inside the cupboard. What happens right after Jimmy climbs up to reach the bag of candy? You will find out when you read this illustrated children's book. Since that day, he starts to develop healthy eating...
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This is the first Portuguese grammar designed specifically for adults with limited learning time, who have as their objective simple, everyday communication. The author covers the most important points of Portuguese grammar in the clearest possible way, concentrating upon the expressions that you would be most likely to use. All grammatical rules are illustrated with phrases and sentences that you can incorporate directly into your working vocabulary,...
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Want to enhance your Portuguese and start sounding like a native Brazilian? For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Portuguese saying, only to have the whole add up to nonsense, this book provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents.
With 50 Portuguese expressions that real Brazilians use every day, you can quickly find some unique phrases to...
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English Portuguese bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Portuguese as their second language.
Jimmy the little bunny goes to the beach with his family. There he learns about the importance of helping others. When Jimmy's sandcastle is destroyed by the wave, they work together to build the bigger and better one. Everything works out better when we help each other.
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English Arabic bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Arabic as their second language.
Jimmy the little bunny doesn’t start off knowing how to ride a two-wheeler bike like his big brothers. In fact, sometimes he gets teased for it. When Dad shows Jimmy how not to be afraid to try something new, that’s when the fun begins.
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Do you know what the hardest thing for a Portuguese learner is?
Finding proper reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we've written this book!
Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes - it's not entertaining, useful or motivating for the student at all, and many...
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When face-to-face with a real Portuguese speaker, do you freeze? Do you know how to ask for directions in Portuguese or even worse, communicate if there's an emergency? If your answer to any of the previous questions was 'Yes', then this book is for you! If there's anything more challenging than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it's knowing what to say and having the courage to speak with confidence.
We know how you feel-You always try...
14) Bodas de sangre
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Here you will understand why Federico García Lorca is unforgettable.
Written in 1931, Bodas de sangre is a play about two young people who are going to get married, but on their wedding day, the bride sees her old boyfriend, Leonardo, again, with whom she has always been in love. Then, after the ceremony, the two flee together, carried away by their love. However, the husband then goes out to look for them, full of pain and rage...
Reading and...
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My name is Rodrigo. I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and I'm a Brazilian Portuguese teacher for foreigners. I like to offer various methods for people learning Portuguese, and I believe that through short stories learning is not only fun, but also effective.
In this audiobook you will work on text interpretation. Here you will find 20 short stories inspired by real-life situations. The stories are written in an informal manner: trying to reproduce...
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Learn Conversational Brazilian Portuguese Vol. 3 is an audio course for beginners or for anyone who struggles with becoming fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. The focus of this course is to practice speaking conversational Portuguese from the very first lesson.
In these twenty lessons, you'll be introduced to a lot of useful, everyday phrases and sentence structures. You'll also be able to expand your vocabulary and talk about daily activities, shopping,...
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If you're a beginner to Portuguese and want to learn the language quickly, then keep reading…
Are you going to Portugal? Do you want to find out what all the fuss is about in Lisbon? After all, why did Madonna move there?
Maybe ask for an autograph of Cristiano Ronaldo in his own language?
Or perhaps bring back to life that old fantasy of yours with Gisele Bündchen starring in it, but this time with some smooth Portuguese flirting?
Then this...
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Brush up your Portuguese, grow your vocabulary and ignite your imagination with these 100 entertaining and culturally interesting Portuguese short stories!
How is it possible to learn Portuguese easily and effortlessly by yourself? The most effective way to learn Portuguese is reading interesting Portuguese short stories. Learning Portuguese doesn't have to be boring and agonizing!
Here you have 100 entertaining and interesting Portuguese short stories...
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El desafío de Juan Rana es un entremés de Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Esta obra fue escrita especialmente para Cosme Pérez, actor célebre del Siglo de oro.
Cosme, tuvo el apodo de Juana Rana. Según algunos «porque una rana no es carne ni pescado» y parece que esta definición aludía a la presunta homosexualidad del actor, quien fue investigado por la Inquisición por ello. Calderón le rindió homenaje a Cosme escribiendo esta obra, en cuyo...
20) Santo y sastre
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Pese a tratarse de una historia religiosa, Santo y sastre es considerada una de las obras de Tirso de Molina en que mejor se manifiesta su sentido del humor.
Santo y sastre es un drama hagiográfico donde escenifica la historia de San Homobono, con algunas pinceladas satíricas inevitables, debido a la profesión del santo.
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