Joseph J. Keenan

Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and over 115,000 copies sold, here is the essential, entertaining guide to speaking Spanish like a native, with a new preface by the author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Anniversary
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780292761933
• ISBN-10: 0292761937
• Artikelnr.: 40789648

Autorenporträt

During thirty years of living and traveling in Latin America, JOSEPH J. KEENAN has worked as a journalist and conservationist across the countries of the region. He lives in Mexico City.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword and Forewarning
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ten Ways to Avoid Being Taken for a Gringo
2. Minding Your Verbal Manners
3. Tricksters
4. Our Fellow Human Beings
5. The Secret Life of Verbs
6. The Twilight Zone
7. Sixty-four Verbs, Up Close and Personal
8. Cranking Up Your Spanish
9. Snappy Answers
10. Invective and Obscenity
11. Which Is Which?
12. Say It Right
13. Spanish Roots
14. The Big Mix
Appendix A. Spanish’s Anglicisms and Barbarisms
Appendix B. Nuances, Translation Tips, and Words and Phrases Influenced by English
Appendix C. English’s “Hispanisms”