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The Story Of Spanish (2013)

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau(Favorite Author)
3.78 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0312656025 (ISBN13: 9780312656027)
languge
English
publisher
St. Martin's Press
review 1: Ужас-ужас. Во-первых, неприятный стиль изложения, большое количество разговорных выражений, выглядит несерьезно. Во-вторых, при описании развития языка, авторы фактически излагают историю Испании - крайне поверхностно и не всегда точно. В третьих, в отзывах людей, знающих испанский, утверждается, что очень много неточностей и ошибок в самих примерах из испанского языка. Меня добила фраза о Гранаде, отделенной от остальной Ис... moreпании хребтом Сьерра Невада. Я там ездил, и Гранада находится по эту сторону хребта...Из почерпнутого - испанский является прямым наследником Vulgar Latin. Кастильский диалект подвергся сильному влиянию баскского языка, в котором нет звука "f". Поэтому, в отличие от других романских языков, во многих словах буква "f" была заменена на "h", например голод = hambre, тогда как в португальском (fome), каталанском(fam) и французском(faim) эта буква осталась.
review 2: "Me llamo Philip." That's how the story of Spanish began for me 50 years ago in Mrs. Quesnoy's Freshmen Spanish class. Decades later with more study and a lot more exposure to Spanish speakers, I can tell a joke in Spanish and most of the listeners will laugh at the joke and not at me. But this book is about the history of the Spanish language. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians landed on the Iberian Peninsula and called the place "I-shepan-ha", the land of rabbits. Later the Celts, "Iberians", the Romans, the Arabs, and the Jews arrived. The unification of the Kingdoms of Spain in 1492, the expansion of the empire and the absorption of New Word indigenous languages all combined to create the modern Spanish language. The non-Latin Basque language is a remnant of Neolithic times. They may have once occupied as much as one-third of the PeninsulaThe Arabic influence may have contributed one of the most distinctive features of the Spanish language: its simplicity. Spanish is the most phonetic of the Latin languages. Arabic spelling is phonetic and systematic. Spanish scholars had to learn both Latin and Arabic. What we know as Spanish today began as a Roman vernacular in Burgos, a city in the powerful Kingdom of Castile.Most of the Conquistadors, however, spoke the southern Spanish vernacular of Andalusia, which influenced South American Spanish. less
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Orange
Learned so much about both history and the Spanish language. This was an easy and interesting read.
cartsd
A HUGE book, with language and country serving as protagonists. Already absorbed.
Allynta
Like history? Read it. Not into history? Read it.
Kay
Not nearly as good as the work on French.
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