Spanish Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Spanish Terms and Phrases (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Michael Ellis (Author)

Book Description

It's simple: follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud, and soon you'll be speaking Spanish. This handy, easy-to-read language guide is easy to carry and gives the basic phrases you need while traveling, asking directions, or ordering food at a restaurant. It also includes phrases for medical or legal emergencies, as well as terminology for hotels, airports, and so on. But most of all, it's just plain fun!

Mike Ellis is a web designer and runs the popular website www.slanguage.com. He lives with his family in Philadelphia.

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An easy new way to learn common phrases that lets you communinicate in Spanish with confidence!

About the Author

Mike Ellis is a web designer and runs the popular website www.slanguage.com. He lives with his family in Philadelphia.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (March 1, 2010)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 142360749X
• ISBN-13: 978-1423607496
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • #40 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Spanish
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5.0 out of 5 stars Basic Sayings but Very Helpful, January 27, 2012

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This review is from: Spanish Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Spanish Terms and Phrases (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I am taking Spanish this semester, and one of the things our professor recommended was making flash cards. So I asked him about this book before buying it, and all he really said was there was no such thing as a bad spanish book. What I like about it is it kind of combines the idea of the flash cards with picture aids and pronunciations, which is the hardest thing to pick up on when learning a new language, that and the tones. While there's a lot MORE to learning Spanish, such as gender roles with words, placement, the/a/an/some - una/unas etc., and the turnaround in the sentencing; that their descriptive words come after a noun for example. El Casa roja = The red house. Anyways, this book is basically not for learning how to speak Spanish or learning the basics of the language and its set up as much as it is to learn how to memorize certain sentences and phrases and HOW to SAY them, which is very helpful if, say, you know someone who speaks only spanish or you are going on a trip. It's helpful as an additive to me, taking Spanish, with help in getting the pronunciation and tones down, which so far has been my hardest part, so I give it 5 stars. But if you are picking it up thinking you're going to learn to speak Spanish from this guide, it's not for that. It's just a simple translation guide, as it says, with fun visuals. Highly recommended! :)