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Easy Spanish Vocabulary Puzzles (Spanish Edition)

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This book has a variety of puzzles (word search, crossword, unscramble, etc.), each needing the words for the puzzles to be translated into spanish. There are different categories of words, each category with a limited selection of vocabulary. For me, the book would be better if it consisted more of basic everyday words that you need when first learning spanish. But still, fun if you know a little spanish and like word puzzles or if you just want some variety in studying some new spanish words.

I have a bachelors degree in Spanish and I found these puzzles to be difficult. Many of the Spanish words that the book wants you to find are not the common names for that word, or are very subject specific words. For example, there is a puzzle about plants and animals were you are supposed to change the English words into Spanish. One word they want you to translate is "swallow" which is a very specific type of bird. The Spanish word for this, golondrina, is rarely used in Spanish. This book is good if you know Spanish at an advanced level and want to increase your vocabulary so that you know big words. If you are a beginner who wants to learn basic, common Spanish words this is probably not the book for you!

I didn't know what to expect with Spanish crossword puzzles but this book is pretty neat. It builds from lesson to lesson and the slightly overlapping repetition helps me retain the vocab.

Don't expect every word to be highly relevant though. For instance, in the first lesson you learn about animals and one of the words is for a Swallow. Now how many times a year do you talk about all those swallows flying by? It's just not practical. Now don't get me wrong, plenty of common usage words are also included like pig, sea gull, etc.

In the end I still really like the book. Any exposure, regardless of how far out, is still better than none!

I was looking more for crossword puzzles, there are very few of those in here. It's fine if you're looking for other kinds of puzzles.