Hide This Spanish Book

by Isabel Mendoza

It's not the Spanish you learned in school. Learn the lingo on: Love, Sex, Extreme Sports, Video Games, Fashion, Body and Gross Bodily Functions, Internet, Text Messaging, Gossip, Entertainment, and Partying. Also exposed in Hide This Book are hilarious language mishaps, social trends, and cool cultural features. Thermometers indicate how “hot” language is, so you know when an expression is totally offensive, completely inappropriate and downright nasty! Hear the foreign language online, or download the audio to you iPod® or MP3 player. Entertaining as well as enlightening, this is one language reference you'll enjoy reading cover-to-cover.

Genres: Reference, Spanish Literature, Nonfiction

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Gard]

Fun, but also useful. Will bring this along next time I'm going to Spain or Latin America.

[Jean-Marie]

If you are a Spanish teacher, this is the perfect graduation present for the favorite students you pretend not to have. Some of the stuff is racy, but, realistically, it's nothing they haven't dealt with by the age of fifteen on YouTube or daytime t.v.

[Magali Najarian]

Such a hilarious book and when I go back to Spain it's going to stay in my bag! I love how they include the different variations according to the different countries in Latin America and in Spain. Awesome.

[Madeleine]

Not nearly as offensive and raunchy as it led me to believe, but fun and surprisingly useful nonetheless.

[Sarah]

This is hilarious, especially when you have a true Mexican audience to try the phrases out on.

[Sabur76]

Entertaining