Rumbos - Tapa blanda

"This book took me completely by surprise. It is unquestionably and far and away the best intermediate Spanish textbook I've seen. The organization is excellent and the grammar explanations clear and in-depth, but it is the fresh approach to structure and vocabulary learning that will make this textbook very important. It offers readings, reading strategies and techniques, writing strategies, and information on literary genre, styles, and types integrated into and throughout the entire work. The materials used in grammar explanations are often authentic, far more so than usual, and varied in type and the entire work of a chapter, in terms of vocabulary building and grammar learning, is organized around the readings or reading themes. This is contextualized learning and it is successful, far beyond anything else I have seen in intermediate textbooks. It is the kind of work students at the intermediate can easily do guided by such materials and it is the kind of work that will prepare them properly for the third year."

Ready to take your Spanish to the next level? RUMBOS is the intermediate Spanish textbook designed to "fill in the gaps" for you no matter how much Spanish you've retained from your first Spanish course. RUMBOS will lead you to higher levels of communicative competence through the combination of functional and contextualized vocabulary presentations, targeted practice of more advanced and often problematic grammatical structures, and strategy-building in the speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Authentic literary readings, listening-based note-taking tasks, academic writing tasks, and oral presentations (all guided and supported by strategies) will ensure you're prepared for advanced language study.