SPANISH FOR REAL-WORLD COMMUNICATION! Revolving around real-life themes and contexts, Ya vers! provides students with the tools they need to communicate--functional, high-frequency vocabulary and grammar--and abundant opportunities to communicate in personalized, creative situations based on real-life tasks. Authentic materials--realia, readings, photographs, video, and native speech--incorporate culture into all stages of language learning, bringing the cultures of Spanish-speaking people concretely into the classroom. Ya vers!'s integrated print and technology components continue this real-world emphasis, reinforcing and enriching students' language skills and their awareness of Spanish as a world language.