Spanish Phrases For Dummies |
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| Title: | Spanish Phrases For Dummies |
| Author: | Susana Wald (Editor) |
| Publisher: | For Dummies |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 16 July, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0764572040 / 9780764572043 |
| List Price: | $9.99 |
| Amazon Price: | $9.99 |
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Product Description
Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips Speak Spanish -- instantly! Traveling to Latin America or Spain but don’t know Spanish? Taking Spanish at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don’t worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Spanish in no time. Discover how to: - Get directions, shop, and eat out
- Talk numbers, dates, time, and money
- Chat about family and work
- Discuss sports and the weather
- Deal with problems and emergencies
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Customer Reviews:
• Taco, Taco
07 January, 2010
When I first picked up a copy of 'SPfD' I thought it would be a complimentary volume to Ms Wald's 'Spanish for Dummies,' a book I've reviewed previously for Amazon. Actually, even though much of the same rudimentary material is presented, it has serendipitously worked out just that way.
Included is a well-considered selection of beginning phrases centered on several topics including: Numbers, Small Talk, Food and Drink, Shopping, Leisure, Work, Transportation, Lodging and Emergencies. These phrases are simple and directed toward those beginning to orient themselves toward use of the Spanish language.
The text is concise, clear, helpful, encouraging and entertaining. The subsequent level of proficiency attained will be pretty much determined by the resolve of the student.
It probably is not necessary to have both books but the smaller pocket-size design with its additional practice phrases has made the convenience of having it worthwhile to me.
'SPfD' is what the authoress intended and I think she did a fine job.
Five Stars then.
Russell de Ville
6 January 2009
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not Useful For Building Vocabulary Or Sentence Flexibility
03 June, 2007
I bought this book because I thought it would be helpful. After taking it home and reading it, I didn't like it at all.
This book gives you full sentences, with full translation, and pronunciation guide. It doesn't break it down into translating the sentence word by word.
For example:
No, es muy facil.
No, ehs mooy fah seel.
No, it's very easy.
So in order to say the sentence, you have to remember how to say the entire sentence. They do not translate each word. So let's say you couldn't remember the whole sentence but you could only remember the one word, the word for easy. It would be helpful to know the Spanish word for 'easy' was but this book only tells you the full sentence.
See the picture above.
In addition, the sentences are NOT flexible. You should be able to use the sentence in a variety of ways and build up your vocabulary and sentence usage. For example, they could also write: No, its very ... difficult, big, small, blue, hot, etc.
I thought of keeping it and buying another one. But why keep the book if I didn't even like it. In fact, I found a better one "Rick Steves' Spanish Phrase Book and Dictionary" and was even cheaper!
Rick Steves' Spanish book, like many others I saw at the bookstore, had a brief built-in Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary in the back of the book. Very helpful!
This Spanish phrases for Dummies had NO dictionary in the back. As you can see from the picture above, it would only give you a short vocabulary list of maybe 5 or 10 "words to know".
Therefore, this book is NOT helpful for learning vocabulary or expanding your sentence variation. It's just that, Spanish phrases.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Use As A Textbook For My Basic Conversational Spanish Class
26 January, 2010
Its good for a basic Spanish Book. They have the word computer in the index
and not a word about telegrams, so that gives you a hint its fairly recent.Its under $10.00 so the price is good for a basic book.It gives you enough Spanish for vacation or business trip.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Completely Useless
25 February, 2009
This book is so useless, I want to give it zero stars. I picked it up at the airport where it was the only book of spanish phrases.
Chapter 1 tells you that you already know some Spanish (like fiesta, siesta, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico and taco). That's a good thing, because this book will not teach you any more Spanish than you already know.
Chapter 5, all eleven pages of it, is dedicated to food. You get to learn how to talk about setting the table, how to conjugate the verb "to eat," and that a spanish omelet contains potatoes. There are also a few more food words, with their history (because that's extremely useful when you're hungry in a foreign country), and about twenty five to seven word phrases, where it is impossible to tell what the words stand for. "Did we leave a tip?" seems a lot more important than knowing how to say "chicken" or "tomato."
Finally, Chapter 12 gives you "almost a dozen words that Spanish speakers use all the time" and Chapter 13 gives you "not quite ten Spanish phrases" that "can convince others that you speak Spanish fluently." As if.
Glossary? Why bother, if you can learn to use ten words to sound like a local. There is, however, an index, in English.
Sounds funny, but it's not so funny when this is the only book you have with you and you don't know how to speak the language.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Never Got It
01 March, 2010
never got the book so have no clue it is probably a 4 or 5 but that makes it a 1
- Amazon Customer Review
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