El Mundo 21 hispano

by Fabián A. Samaniego, Nelson Rojas, Francisco Rodríguez Nogales

Through its proven approach to language learning, EL MUNDO 21 HISPANO provides heritage speakers of Spanish with a wealth of both contextualized and purposeful content. The completely revised and redesigned second edition provides integrated coverage of grammar, vocabulary, media (audio and video), and culture as well as ample opportunities to review each lesson's theme. Throughout the book, readers are given multiple opportunities to learn about their own country of origin, or that of their ancestors, so that they begin to respect and take pride in their own cultural heritage. As readers discover the 21 countries that comprise the Spanish-speaking world, they will achieve a global understanding of the issues and challenges faced by the Spanish-speaking world today.

576 pages, Paperback

First published August 2, 2004

Reviews

[Lahna]

The grammatical parts are good but the history/culture is very difficult to follow. It is as if they just put some scattered sentences, disjointed, no continuity, too many missing data. I think they were just bullets of information. I really wanted more details and had to do some research on the computer to fill in the missing parts.

The publisher, Cengage, apparently is going out of business at the end of this year. I think there has to be a better book than this but their grammar book, "Manual de gramática", is excellent, both the English version (6th Ed) and the Spanish version (2nd ed.) I