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Diccionario de Jergas de Habla Hispana (Spanish Edition)

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I have used (and love) the website that accompanies this book - www.jergasdehablahispana.org - I love that it's organized by country, but you have to click on each letter over and over. Great information, but too much clicking. So...the wonderful solution is this book. I, personally, love the way this is organized. I love having a portable version of the website. And as far as thoroughness, this wins hands down! I have not seen another source in print or online that offers such an extensive collection of Spanish slang and colloquialisms. As an interpreter this ranks as one of my favorite resources.

Wow! This book is a TREASURE! Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it is far and away the most useful of all Spanish slang dictionaries. I disagree that it is only useful to fluent speakers of Spanish or advanced students -- it is also an essential tool for Spanish learners who listen to popular Spanish-language music, those who have native Spanish-speaking friends, ESL teachers, translators (to and from Spanish), Spanish instructors; in short, to anyone interested in the language, from academics to lovers of word play.

Jergas de Habla Hispana is a Spanish-Spanish dictionary, not a "learn Spanish" book, but it is an exciting new resource for learners and lovers of the language, a-finger-on-the-pulse compendium of slang and regionalisms from all Spanish-speaking countries -- including the growing "Spanglish" of the US.

In the past ten years or so as the US has firmly taken its place as the third-largest Spanish-speaking country, hundreds of new "learn Spanish" books and dictionaries have been published -- many of them, frankly, big yawns... or rip-offs.

Jergas de Habla Hispana is all "meat." It's a delight. Buy it!

Trying to understand people the right way in every country in every situation is quite difficult.

Roxana's extensive job was done after 9 years of research work, and will never be finished.

The dynamic behavior of human habits is also reflected in their language, and this dynamism is many times more frequent when slang is the matter.This book is for everybody: simple, well explained and plain of examples which make the reader fully understand the meaning of almost all uses of each ord.
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Tratar de entender a la gente en la manera correcta en cualquier país y en cualquier situación es bastante difícil.
El extenso trabajo de Roxana fue realizado después de 9 años de investigación y nunca va a ser finalizado.

El comportamiento dinámico de los hábitos humanos se refleja en su lenguaje, y ese dinamismo es muchas veces más frecuente cuando de jergas se trata.

Este libro es para todos: simple, bien explicado y lleno de ejemplos que hacen que el lector comprenda completeamente el significado de casi todos los usos de cada palabra.

Soy interprete profesional y traductor y he adquirido este libro para agregar vocablos de jerga a mi tarea habitual en las cortes e institutos policiales y de detención.

El ordenamiento de vocablos por países NO me resulta práctico; se hace engorroso buscar las expresiones ordenadas por país ante una situación de emergencia y tal cosa no es práctica dado que usualmente el mismo término es utilizado por varios países.

Preferiria que la autora hubiese agrupado TODOS los terminos en UN solo ordenamiento, y que - si le interesase aportar datos originarios de cada término - lo hubiese aclarado al lado de cada uno, lo cual usualmente es poco relevante para la tarea profesional de interpretación o traducción.

En síntesis, como libro de consulta profesional resulta poco útil porque su diseño ha sido imaginado con un criterio de clasificacion erróneo.

El contenido específico del libro tampoco es completo; me hubiese gustado que la autora se tomase el trabajo de investigar un poco más algunas expresiones que suelen tener varios significados.

EG
Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Very useful book for all that people that are curios about the different meanings of the same word in spanish.... Also to avoid misunderstandings....
Diccionario muy util para todos los que sean curiosos sobre las diferencias de significado de la misma palabra entre los paises hispanoablantes... y tambien para evitar malos errores.....

This review is specific to the "Kindle for PC" version of this dictionary. (I give the print version 5 stars, but please note the book covers the slang of many countries and thus is not exhaustive for any individual country you might be interested in.) Regarding the "Kindle for PC" version of this book, be aware that the software currently (as of March 2010) has no Search feature and, further, seems to lack an efficient scrolling mechanism, resulting in tedious paging to look up each word you might need. That seems to be a serious limitation in using an electronic dictionary. Likewise, Kindle for PC (and perhaps the Kindle appliance itself ... I'm not sure) does not allow any cut-and-paste of words or phrases at all, unlike competing electronic formats.

La idea de un diccionario que recoja las peculiaridades idiomáticas de los distintos países hispanos empezaba a ser una necesidad. El trabajo recopilatorio que ha dado vida a este diccionario, tanto más valioso cuanto que no ha sido realizado por académicos, resulta una ayuda extraordinaria para todos aquellos que deseen comprender mejor la hermosa diversidad de una América Latina que posee un latiente corazón común: La hispanidad.

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This dictionary is simply great; it was needed to compilate all the Latin America's idiomatic peculiarities, so this dictionary becomes a wonderful tool to better understand the beautiful diversity which beats in Latin America as only one heart: Hispanity.

Really good book. It's helpful since it has sentences that allow one to better understand how the word/phrase is used.

I have reached for this book countless times and it has always been helpful. Definitely a must have in a Spanish classroom setting!

Finally, an excellent reference book that's not only informative and educational but also fun to read. World travelers, linguists and Hispanic culture buffs alike will enjoy poring through the many interesting and entertaining pages of this book.
Congratulations on the excellent results of all your hard work Rox!