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:) Plus, they were a good price and really fit the theme well. I bought a number of these books to include in beach bags for guests at our destination wedding. While they are not going to teach you to be fluent in Spanish, they are a good basic guide for travelers who know little to no Spanish.
Like the title says, perfect for Travelers, brush up or spanish learners. Its an all around great book. Any spot thats masculine also shows the feminine version.
This book itself hsa no pictures but that doesn't matter.Me and my girl have been trying to recoup our spanish from some years ago. It has a large variety of phrases (for many different and normal situations) and multiple examples of certain phrases with different words. Just from the pictures of the book pages I could tell this was what I was looking for.
(Ex: May I have some soda - May I have some lemonade). :) We had started to learn it but slipped away from it since entering college since entering college.
So I suprised her with two of these (which she was thrilled and loves them as well) Now we're using spanish every day and expanding our vocabulary.
I ordered a book and I got it the exact day they told me I would have it. They give what they offer.
My Spanish boyfriend does think some people actually do only rely on books like these for pronunciation because he says he's heard tourists from America speak similarly to this and that it sounds weird. There are indeed useful phrases for the traveler, but the way they show how to pronounce things is pretty awful at parts and you'd sound really weird pronouncing some of this stuff. But for $2 it sure isn't bad. Even though it's obviously best to read a pronunciation guide AND hearing things being said, if you are only reading how to do it, the book could be a lot more helpful and improved. for example:English: "I want to leave these packages for a while" =Spanish: "Quiero dejar estos paquetes un rato."Their way to pronounce this is: "KYAY-ro day-HAHR ESS-tohss pah-KAY-tess oon RRAH-toh"I know how to pronounce things well after 3 years of learning Spanish and speaking with a native every day.Even looking over the small pronunciation guide in Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish will help a lot more with pronunciation. That sentence is more like "KYEH-roh deh-HAR ESS-tohs pah-KEH-tess oon RRAH-toh".Anyway, still there are a lot of useful phrases and people will still probably understand some things, even using the book alone.
Many of the phrases are not typical ones everyone might use. Not as great as I thought it would be, but there's some use to it.
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