Street Spanish 3: The Best of Naughty Spanish

by David Burke

Book Overview

You've mastered Spanish slang, conquered popular idioms, yet still feel like an outsider. The reason is simple. You haven't discovered the third piece to understanding everyday spanish: popular expletives and obscenities - those back-alley words and phrases constantly used in movies, books and coversations between native speakers.

STREET SPANISH 3 is the first step-by-step guide of its kind to explore the most comon curses, vulgarities, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471179728
• ISBN13: 9780471179726
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Street Spanish 3: The Best of Naughty Spanish

What to interpret the street words from patients? They are all here and designated by country.

A Must Have For Any Spanish Student :P

I took three years of Spanish in High School and am currently taking a few Spanish classes at college. I found this book very entertaining and it definately added to my vocabulary in a way that not many Spanish teachers are willing to teach :) I was so happy with this book, I am going to go get the first two.

Spanish slang at its best

Street Spanish 3 is a self-study guide to understanding the most common obscenities as they are used in different Spanish Speaking countries, therefore, this book should be an automatic addition to your collection. Language academies generally ignore obscenities while teaching Spanish, though in real life they are all around us. Students should therefore be trained to recognise them so that they won't end up using terms, which on the surface may seem innocent, but in reality are well-disguised obscenities and insults. Fortunately, the training that is needed to prevent such occurrences can be obtained from the pages of this book, which also provides the knowledge that will allow easy recognition of these `obscene' words, whether they are used in conversations, movies or books.This self-teaching guide will enable the student to speak with greater confidence. It presents street terms as they would be heard in real life situations through the various dialogues contained in each chapter. As done in volumes 1 and 2, synonyms, antonyms and variations of each term are provided, showing further usages so that a comprehensive mastery of the expressions is quickly acquired.There is a special section which introduces additional slang phrases that deal with particular areas such as `vulgar insults', `name calling' and `body parts', and to top it off, there are several pages dedicated to the subject of being obscene unintentionally, where common sentences that are used and accepted in one country may have obscene or sexual overtones in another territory. This book is recommended for all travellers and students of Spanish who are serious about protecting themselves from embarrassing situations while at the same time enhancing their knowledge base.(Having the cassettes, which are not part of the package, would be an added bonus since you would hear the dialogues being spoken by natives of Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Puerto Rico and Colombia, providing a better feel for the language, its speech patterns and the varying pronunciations).

A Welcome Diversion

After studying Spanish agressively for several months, I was numb from congugating verbs 72 different ways, learning idioms, and positioning reflexive, direct object and indirect object pronouns. Naughty Spanish made learning Spanish fun again. Even if you never use some of these unbelievably crude phrases, you are actually still learning and practicing grammar. It's just that you are having too much fun to know you're doing it!Street Spanish I & II are a blast, too, for learning all the things that legitimate language courses are too afraid to teach you.

Real Spanish

This is a good book. To really learn the language, you also have to get down to the slang. This is a good guide to Spanish slang. I not only recommend this, but the other 2 in this series as well.