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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
"Not useful for building vocabulary or sentence flexibility"
"Dummies Nothing! This is for the Smart ones!"
"Spanish basics"
"long-distance learning"
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Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips
Speak Spanish -- instantly!
Traveling to Latin America or Spain but don't know Spanish? Taking Spanish at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don't worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Spanish in no time.
Discover how to:
Get directions, shop, and eat out
Talk numbers, dates, time, and money
Chat about family and work
Discuss sports and the weather
Deal with problems and emergencies
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Not useful for building vocabulary or sentence flexibility I bought this book because I thought it would be helpful. After taking it home and reading it, I didn't like it at all. This book gives you full sentences, with full translation, and pronunciation guide. It doesn't break it down into translating the sentence word by word. For example:
No, es muy facil.
No, ehs mooy fah seel.
No, it's very easy. So in order to say the sentence, you have to remember how to say the entire sentence. They do not translate each word. So let's say... more info
Dummies Nothing! This is for the Smart ones! Take this pocket sized "For Dummies" book along on your next trip below the border (or favorite Mexican Restaurant)and you won't be talking like a gringo anymore! Ok, maybe your espanol won't rollll out as fast as a native's can, but you will definitely be able to find most places you want to (like the ever important best sales shops .. and little girls rooms). You might even be able to decipher what in the world the people at the next booth are saying about you! I am sure glad the subtitle on this one is:... more info
Spanish basics Easy to read and learn Spanish phrases. A great complimentary guide to Spanish for Dummies.
long-distance learning My 11-year-old granddaughter and I each have this book, which we use to study Spanish together...she in another state several hundred miles from me...via e-mail. We are just beginners, and this book is ideal for looking up simple phrases to exchange. It is such a neat way to share a learning experience with a loved grandchild!
