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Street Spanish 3: The Best of Naughty Spanish

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Street Spanish 3 is a self-study guide to understanding the most common obscenities as they are used in different Spanish Speaking countries, therefore, this book should be an automatic addition to your collection.

Language academies generally ignore obscenities while teaching Spanish, though in real life they are all around us. Students should therefore be trained to recognise them so that they won't end up using terms, which on the surface may seem innocent, but in reality are well-disguised obscenities and insults. Fortunately, the training that is needed to prevent such occurrences can be obtained from the pages of this book, which also provides the knowledge that will allow easy recognition of these `obscene' words, whether they are used in conversations, movies or books.

This self-teaching guide will enable the student to speak with greater confidence. It presents street terms as they would be heard in real life situations through the various dialogues contained in each chapter. As done in volumes 1 and 2, synonyms, antonyms and variations of each term are provided, showing further usages so that a comprehensive mastery of the expressions is quickly acquired.

There is a special section which introduces additional slang phrases that deal with particular areas such as `vulgar insults', `name calling' and `body parts', and to top it off, there are several pages dedicated to the subject of being obscene unintentionally, where common sentences that are used and accepted in one country may have obscene or sexual overtones in another territory. This book is recommended for all travellers and students of Spanish who are serious about protecting themselves from embarrassing situations while at the same time enhancing their knowledge base.

(Having the cassettes, which are not part of the package, would be an added bonus since you would hear the dialogues being spoken by natives of Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Puerto Rico and Colombia, providing a better feel for the language, its speech patterns and the varying pronunciations).

I was somewhat disappointed to find out that this book is remarkably similar (nearly identical) to Street Spanish 2. Had I known this, I certainly would not have purchased 3.

This is a MUST read for anyone who is even slightly interested in communicating with real Spanish speaking people. The cartoons are well drawn, the scenarios are hilarious, the usage examples are realistic and very funny, the vocabulary is creative and alive, and the variables for differing countries are exact. This book demonstrates the color of Spanish ... but DO NOT take it to church!

THe author's literal translation of, "echar los perros" is, "to throw dogs".The book even has a picture of a man with a sack full of dogs that he is throwing at a girl.He tells us that it means to flirt.The literal translation is, "to sick the dogs on...(a girl,guy,etc.)"It means to court,woo...(a girl,guy, etc.) He sais that conejo,rabbit, is a bad word in Mexico.It may be a bad word in another country,not in Mexico.I found a bit too many mistakes when it comes to Mexican slang that it makes me question the entire book.

After studying Spanish agressively for several months, I was numb from congugating verbs 72 different ways, learning idioms, and positioning reflexive, direct object and indirect object pronouns. Naughty Spanish made learning Spanish fun again. Even if you never use some of these unbelievably crude phrases, you are actually still learning and practicing grammar. It's just that you are having too much fun to know you're doing it!

Street Spanish I & II are a blast, too, for learning all the things that legitimate language courses are too afraid to teach you.

I took three years of Spanish in High School and am currently taking a few Spanish classes at college. I found this book very entertaining and it definately added to my vocabulary in a way that not many Spanish teachers are willing to teach :) I was so happy with this book, I am going to go get the first two.

I thought this book was absolutely great. I had already knew some naughty things to say, but now I know alot, thanks to this book. The author teaches you all the REAL things that Native speakers are talking about!! Though there are a few mistakes in translation, anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of "Naughty Spanish" should get this book!!

This is a good book. To really learn the language, you also have to get down to the slang. This is a good guide to Spanish slang. I not only recommend this, but the other 2 in this series as well.

If you're intent on sharpening your street Spanish..this fun-filled volume does a nice job.
I'm glad I bought it.
Easy to read and reasonably priced.

What to interpret the street words from patients? They are all here and designated by country.