Easy Spanish Word Games & Puzzles [Paperback]

Jamie Padilla (Author)

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 11, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844272426
• ISBN-13: 978-0844272429
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,593,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting and fun, not a children's book, October 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Spanish Word Games & Puzzles (Paperback)

I've been studing Spanish on my own for about a year, using tapes and textbooks. I think this book is suitable for anyone with some background in Spanish, either through classes or self study. This book has 40 anagrams and acrostics that use Spanish exclusively. The preface to the book is in English, but the rest of the book is in Spanish. I was able to complete all the puzzles in the book, with the help of a Spanish - English dictionary. (There are Spanish-English and English-Spanish glossaries in the back of this book, though). I learned some new words and had fun, too. This book is a good value.

There is an answer key in the back. The only reason I didn't rate it as 5, is that the answers are not translated to English. Each puzzle results in a phrase or sentence in Spanish, and at my level anyway, just because I know what all the words in a sentence mean, doesn't mean I can understand the sentence! Most the solutions I could understand, but a few at the end I can't make sense of (yet, anyway).

I don't know why the reading level is said ... to be ages 4 to 8, because I would suggest it for high school and above.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but expensive, October 28, 2001

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"jackiesdog" (Sonora, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Spanish Word Games & Puzzles (Paperback)

You won't really increase your vocab much with this book because nothing is in meaningful context, but the puzzles are fun to do. However, for what is essentially a Dell-type puzzle book, it's too expensive for so few puzzles. The publisher should put out this type of book on cheaper paper and sell them the way English puzzle books are sold in the states (and as Spanish puzzle books are sold here in Mexico).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, November 2, 2007

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Holly Joy "Holly , the book grandma" (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Spanish Word Games & Puzzles (Paperback)

Harder, without clues...
Lots of new (to me)words here.. dictionary in back helps you find them if you don't know them.
Well organized by category...