Spanish Visual Language Guide: Visual Language Guide (Barron's Visual Learning) [Spanish]

Bys: Rudi Kost, Robert Valentin, Karl-heinz Brecheis

International travelers will value this quick-reference vocabulary and phrase builder. Hundreds of color photos and cartoon-style illustrations present visual images of words and phrases that travelers typically need when they are getting around in Spain or Latin America. Here's how to ask for gasoline when driving into a service station--with pictures and bilingual phrases and answers to dramatize the situation. Here too are words and pictures depicting all kinds of food and drink--a pineapple, a mug of cold beer, a sandwich, a fresh apple. The book is color-coded along page edges according to topics to help travelers find what they're looking for in a hurry. General topics include transportation, accommodations, food shopping, department store shopping, furniture and appliances, sports and recreation, and many others. This good-looking book also makes a handy reference source for language students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0764122800
• ISBN13: 9780764122804
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Services
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 0.7" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Fun reference book to jazz up your Spanish study program

The book has a number of sections organized by themes such as weather, food and dining, shopping, traveling, and the human body. For a change of pace, if you always wanted to learn the word for an item such as sunglasses, skirt, windshield, vanilla ice cream, bandaid, heart, or bottle of perfume, you can find the word. There are lots of photos also. You can easily find a number - every page number is written in Spanish. The book contains some words and phrases for a tourist or casual student of Spanish. You will not learn lots of substantive grammar here, but, in a worst-case scenario, if you are in a store with a number of Spanish-speaking employees, you can always point to a picture! For the price, it is a pleasant change of pace from books about reading and writing Spanish.