The Bottom Line
- Fill in the blanks--learn the stuff your high school Spanish Teacher couldn't tell you.
- Learn to speak the appropriate words of love when you meet someone special
- Learn about those indecent gestures those Spanish drivers are giving you
- The English terms for Spanish words are censored. What the h**l is up with that?
Description
- Hide This Spanish Book: a thin volume of Spanish slang phrases and gestures.
- Covers: sex, fashion, bodily functions, video game playing, making friends and enemies, and more.
- The abundent annotations give you insight into cultural habits and variations.
- Get shopping and fashion facts, including size charts for Spanish countries.
- Hide this Spanish Book is reasonably priced at under $10.
Guide Review - Hide This Spanish Book - Slang Phrase Book
But then that's not the whole story. Understanding the slang terms used in your presence makes you a part of the party, even if you're not allowed to use them back--and knowing slang can give you some additional insight into to the culture you're visiting. Flipping through the book is a joy; care has been taken to warn you which phrases are really crude and which are incredibly vulgar. Annotations provide cultural clues and contexts, telling you how A Spaniard might use or view the phrase. Warnings abound in the sex section--especially since the slang sexual terms have abundant regional variations. (remember that Spanish is spoken not only in Spain, but throughout Central and South America as well. Berlitz has done a great job of noting the differences.)
Bottom line? For anyone who has developed the passion to get inside a culture they've visited and who has gone as far as one can saying "Hola" and "buenas tardes." I recommend "Hide this Spanish Book." It's a good tool for the inquisitive traveler to browse, and the gregarious traveler to carry in a pocket or bag on the way to the bar.
