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The Dictionary of Chicano Spanish

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This is an excellent, scholarly work on a specialized area of linguistics: the words and phrases which form an Americanized dialect of the Spanish language. This dictionary would be a very helpful tool for those in the social agency, healthcare, legal, and law enforcement fields who deal with people who speak primarily Spanish. This dictionary will complement a standard English-Spanish dictionary. The Dictionary of Chicano Spanish will define words and phrases not usually found in a standard English-Spanish dictionary.

I haven't used it yet because I bought it for a course that was already over, in anticipation for other novels with Spanish words that crop up. I found that a previous purchase for a pocket size Spanish/English dictionary was completely useless in reading colloquial phrases by Chicano characters. But, in my rush, I didn't notice that the size of the book is in a very large format and unwieldy to carry around. So make sure you want a book this size before you order it. Also, the font and page setups are totally unprofessional (self-published?). That really doesn't matter to me, but you could be disappointed if these things matter to you.