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Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture

Better Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged.

Better Reading Spanish is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.

Better Reading Spanish

Preface

How to use this book

La cocina

Guia para la buena alimentacion A nutrition chart

Menu de Mexico A menu from a Mexican restaurant

Gazpacho A recipe from a Spanish cookbook

Pina The story of a fruit native to the Americas

El cumpleanos de Frida Kahlo A Mexican dinner party

Pastel chabela An excerpt from a Mexican novel

La musica

Discos A magazine review of compact discs

La musica y vitalidad de Compay Segundo A Cuban musician

Los premios Grammy Latinos The Latin Grammys

Los Rabanes A Panamanian group

Del Gado y la musica andina Keeping Inca music alive

Tomatito A Flamenco artist

El tango The Argentine music and dance

Si se calla el cantor An Argentine folk song

Recuerdos de la ninez Excerpts from three novels: one Puerto Rican, one Spanish, one Peruvian

Los deportes

Todos somos Guerreros A flyer from a baseball game

Deportes acuaticos en Costa Rica Diverse water sports

Lorena Ochoa, golfista extraordinaria Mexico's star female golfer

Mas alla del beisbol, la vida de Roberto Clemente A baseball legend

El ciclismo y la salud The benefits of cycling

Top 7 de ejercicios que queman muchas calorias Calorie-burning activities

Lo que se necesita para ganar Winning in the NBA

Noticias historicas del beisbol Baseball news

Tres historias Soccer stories retold by a Uruguayan author

El cine y el teatro

Peliculas hispanas ganadoras al Oscar por Mejor Pelicula de Habla no Inglesa Best foreign film Oscar winners

Solas A Spanish movie

Todo sobre mi madre A Spanish Oscar

Carlos Saura A Spanish filmmaker

Yo nunca quise ser escritor A Chilean writer and movie critic

Fundacion Arlequin Teatro A program from a theater in Paraguay

El fabricante de deudas An excerpt from a Peruvian play

El arte

Museos A tourist leaflet from Honduras

El arco iris A poem by a Mexican painter

El muralismo mexicano The story of mural painting in Mexico

Frida Kahlo A Mexican painter

Pablo Picasso Spanish genius

Salvador Dali An individualist from Spain

Fernando Botero A painter and sculptor from Colombia

A la manera de Frida Kahlo An Argentine poet on a Mexican painter

Graffiti A poem about another painter

La familia

El arbol familiar A family tree

La celebracion del matrimonio The wedding ceremony

A mi hija Flor de Maria A father's poem

La familia: un invento maravilloso A young mother's reflections

La familia de Marcela A nontraditional family

Un padre A famous father

Los abuelos Traditional and modern games in Mexico

Cuentos Family relationships in prose from Bolivia

La primera clase de ballet A daughter's first dance lesson

El estilo de vida hoy

Persiguiendo el sueno bilingue Bringing up a child bilingually

Mi PC A song from the Dominican Republic

Cristina The Cuban-American talk show hostess

Oscar de la Renta Fashion designer from the Dominican Republic

Carolina Herrera, que mujer New York designer from Venezuela

Edward James Olmos: Embajador de la buena voluntad Mexican-American goodwill ambassador

Un dia insolito A day in the life of a modern man-Excerpt from a novel

La historia y la politica

Cronologia A time line

Simon Bolivar Sayings of a South American hero

Celebrando la independencia Bolivian Independence Day customs

El Canal de Panama An engineering marvel

La pacifista A Colombian peacemaker

Mario Vargas Llosa, el politico detras del escritor The political side of the Nobel Laureate

Ernesto Che Guevara Life of the Argentine-born revolutionary

Una conversacion entre marido y mujer An Argentine power couple-Excerpt from a novel

Continuing to read

Answer key

Acknowledgments

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