Gwendolyn de Alba Yount is a college professor in Riverside, California. She holds bachelor’s, Master’s, and Candidate in Philosophy degrees from UCLA and spent several years doing graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the École normale supérieure – PSL, and the Sorbonne (Paris VII, VIII). She has won numerous awards for teaching excellence and her bio appears in “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in American Education”, “Who’s Who Among American Teachers”, and “Who’s Who of American Women”. Besides the United States, Spain and France, she has lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Italy, England and the Czech Republic. It is this love of diversity that motivated her to write this workbook in the hopes of encouraging you to fall in love with the Spanish language and its many cultures.