Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish : Featuring the #1 Comic Strip "For Better or For Worse"

by Lynn Johnston, Brenda Wegmann

Pictures and humor help readers build their Spanish language skills To its millions of fans, the Pattersons are just like their own families, facing universal issues among daily concerns. Containing a selection of 100 syndicated Spanish-language versions of the strip that is widely read in Latin America, Laugh 'n' Learn Spanish provides an entertaining and effective way to expand and polish conversational skills in Spanish. Readers learn by understanding and learning natural, everyday verbal interactions at home and about town, following John and Ell Patterson as they attempt to come to terms with middle age; daughter Elizabeth as she spreads her wings and goes off to college; son Michael dating and then marrying his childhood sweetheart, Deanna; daughter April as she rebels against discipline, anther grandpa who finds a second love in the autumn of his life. Each strip is graded by difficulty--Beginning, Moderate, or Challenging--and is accompanied

Genres: Spanish Literature, Language

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2003

About the author

Lynn Johnston CM OM is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first female cartoonist to win the Reuben Award.

Reviews

[Ellen Snyder]

Great way to brush up on your spanish using For Better or For Worse comic strip. Review verb tenses and presents a lot of idiomatic phrases.

[Colette!]

For those of us with inexplicable appreciation of For Better... and who also like reading in Spanish.