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Spanish Business Situations: A Spoken Language Guide (Languages for Business)

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This book is not worth the amount being asked for it. It is practically useless for anyone with a decent background in Spanish. You may pick up a few phrases you weren't aware of but the format is not conducive to really helping you improve your business Spanish. If you have no background in Spanish at all, I still don't reccommend it, you won't be able to do anything but try and memorize phrases and will probably do it poorly. You'd be better of either going with a cheap phrase book in that case, or really learning the language with a good grammar book if you are the self-study type, or taking a class.

I know how reviews found here can put you off buying what on closer inspection turns out to be a real gem. (and vice versa). This book's simple cut-to-the-chase bilingual approach is too rare in english/american language teaching handbooks these days. The book is chock-full of immediately applicable content, which is also very refreshing compared to what in 90% of cases on the market seems like spoon-feeding of knowledge. For those who work in an office with 'hispanoablantes' or must deal with them on the phone or in person in business environment, this book is priceless. The price is steep (is that without the audio?) but try to leaf through it in a bookstore and you'll see I'm right. As to beginners still in need of remedial grammar classes - just stay away from it, but not too long as undoubtedly it may speed up you business spanish skills in record time.