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Leon
Bensadon's Home Page
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Campus phone: (206) 543-2068
A little bit of history if you'd like to know more about me. I
was born in Tangier,
Morocco although eventually raised in Madrid, where my
family lives at present. I worked in Madrid as a Senior Electrical Technician
with GRUNDIG. Three years later,
the constant learning of new technologies (and I thought studying was over!)
pushed me to switch gears and to join the BERLITZ
Schools of Languages as a Management Trainee. After learning the
administrative procedures and teaching Spanish and French mostly to foreign
executives, I was promoted to Director of its new branch in Bilbao, Spain,
where I lived for about 4 years.
Before coming to the US
in 1984, I was the Managing Director of an Import Export company in Caracas,
Venezuela,
specializing in cosmetics and beauty aids. I left very good
friends in that beautiful country and I miss them quite a bit. You may
ask yourselves: "What a life!: Engineering, Business, Teaching... What
else?" That's it, folks, I found my way... I'll be a teacher for the
rest of my life since I really enjoy my profession as all my students can
tell.
So, enough about my past... Now you can find me, Monday through
Friday, at the University of Washington.
Although I've been teaching French & Spanish in the past, I am at present
a Lecturer teaching Spanish in the department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies.
My office is located in Padelford
Hall, C-204, where I'm available Mondays and Wednesdays, from 11:30 to
12:30. (Winter 2008)
See
our Spring 2001 Department's Newsletter
I have listed the
following sites I find very helpful for all my students. I strongly
recommend you take some time and explore them if you are interested in a
foreign language and its cultural aspects
Spain & Mexico
Madrid
Spanish
Language Learning, Video
& Music
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§ UW Language
Learning Center
§ Sedes con ejercicios de
gramática (muchas y buenas)
§ Real
Academia de la Lengua
§ Enlaces
interesantes de gramática
§ Conjuguemos
(Verbs conjugation)
§ List of Spanish
Language sites
§ Language helper
§ Verbs
Conjugation (All tenses and modes)
§ Conjugation Trainer
§ Exercices on most
Spanish Grammar topics (Juan Manuel Soto Arriví)
§ Spanish Grammar Exercises (Barbara
Kuczun Nelson)
§ Ejercicios
de gramática (Enrique Yepes)
§ Gramática española (Reglas
de acentuación, uso de mayúsculas)
§ Página de la
Lengua Española Great site for Spanish
Grammar; writing & reading
§ Grammar Study
§ Learn Spanish (Free
tutorial)
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Dictionnaries
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Diccionario de mitos y leyendas
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Diccionarios (muchos
y buenos)
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Del dicho
al hecho
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El origen de las palabras
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El castellano (diccionarios y más)
o WordReference dictionnary
o Specialty
Dictionnary 1
o Specialty Dictionnary 2
o Lengua y Cultura
o Latin News on the Web
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Canciones en español
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Modismos del mundo hispano
o Modismos
chilenos
o Writing guide
o Sephardic songs
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Hispanic Literature
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- Argentinian Literature
- Colombian Literature
- Mexican Literature
- Peruvian Literature
- Visión de los Vencidos: (Relatos indígenas)
- Figuras históricas de México
- Índice de autores mexicanos
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Cardenal, Ernesto
- Cortázar, Julio
- Darío, Rubén
- de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
- Jiménez, Juan
Ramón
- Márquez, García Gabriel
- Mistral, Gabriela
- Pablo Neruda
- Paz,
Octavio
- Escuchen a los poetas
(Alberti, Borges, Neruda y muchos más) recitando sus propios poemas
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French Sites of Interest
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