Author : Mary McVey Gill
Publisher : Contemporary Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780844223933
Provides practical language instruction that focuses on everyday usage.
Author : Mary McVey Gill
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780071460866
Easy lessons that help you speak Spanish like a native This revised edition of Streetwise Spanish features an overview of the “signature” words that differentiate speakers across the Spanish-speaking world. It also includes an audio CD featuring 30 dialogs from the book, spoken by native speakers from more than 15 countries and exercises that test your grasp of key slang expressions.
Author : Mary McVey Gill
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780071460873
Author : Eleanor Hamer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1602392501
If you were dropped into the middle of Managua, Mexico City, or Miami, would you know how to speak not only the language, but also the lingo? In The Street-Wise Spanish Survival Guide, the reader who is already familiar with Spanish will discover the banter and metaphor (both polite and rude) that enrich the spoken language as it is really used, hints on avoiding embarrassing mistakes in grammar, and a list of dreaded false cognates. Full of advice on pronunciation and tips on customs and manners, and keyed with time-saving symbols, this is the best guide available to understanding and appreciating Spanish as it is spoken in Latin America and the United States.
Author : Frances de Talavera Berger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 1990-06-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101664657
A collection of hard-core curses, colorful colloquialisms, and streetwise slang never taught in Spanish class includes sample conversations, painless quizzes, tips on body gestures, and discussions of Spanish history, culture, and cuisine—complete with delightful cartoons.
Author : Russell A. Vassallo
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Gangsters
ISBN : 9780977673933
"Before he was forty, the author had risked his own life to save a friend from hit men. His was a divided loyalty and silence to his family and friends who skirted the treacherous borders of gangsterism. Serious at times, hilarious at others, he paints the underworld with glowing strokes of his early life."-- Cover.
Author : Timothy Black
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307378349
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
Author : JOHANNY VAZQUEZ PAZ
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Juan Caballero
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1569759537
GET D!RTY! Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Spanish with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: • cool slang • funny insults • explicit sex terms • raw swear words Dirty Spanish teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Spain and Latin America: • What’s up? ¿Qué tal? • I’m shitfaced. Estoy mamado. • Check out all the hotties! ¡Mírale las bomboncitas! • Will you suck me off? ¿Me lo chuparías? • I have the runs. Yo tengo un chorrillo. • What a motherfucker! ¡Qué conchesuma! • That forward is legit. Es chévere ese delantero.
Author : Mary McVey Gill
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 007170907X
Don't sound like una momia--add a little sizzle to your Spanish! If someone called you tragaldabas would you be insulted or flattered? If you shouted ¡Mota! in the street, would you expected to get a cab or get arrested? Thanks to The Red-Hot Book of Spanish Slang and Idioms, you'll always know your tejemaneje (scheme) from your merequetengue (mess) no matter where you find yourself in the Spanish-speaking world. Five thousand words and phrases--plus helpful hints as to what's cordial and what's vulgar--keep you in sync with Spanish slang. Spanish to English niños popis (upper-class kids) Spoiled brats Contigo ni a China me voy. (I'm not even going to China with you) You're impossible La cruda (rawness) Hangover English to Spanish Ugly as sin ser un espantapájaro (to be a scarecrow) To be lucky tener leche (to have milk) Why are you staring at me? ¿Tengo monos en la cara? (Do I have monkeys on my face?)
