THE SLANGMAN GUIDE TO STREET SPEAK 2: The Complete Course in American Slang & Idioms

by David Burke

The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 is a continuation of book 1, offering more slang & idioms, dialogues, puzzles, true-or-false exercises, word games, and hundreds of illustrations which will teach you how Americans really speak "in no time flat" -- that means "very quickly" in slang! In addition, this volume introduces The Slangman Files which presents everyday slang terms and expressions in categories such as: Fruits & Vegetables, Food, Clothing, Body Parts, Proper Names, Initials, Fish, Insects, Animals, Numbers, and Colors all used in popular slang expressions.

232 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1992

About the author

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See also: Fantasy author David Burke

David Burke is a documentary filmmaker and former 60 MINUTES writer/producer who came to Paris in 1986 for what he thought would be a year, but turned into more than twenty. Besides Writers in Paris, he has written two editions of HarperCollinss Access Paris, a travel guide to Mediterranean France, and numerous articles for magazines and web sites. He and his wife, producer/director Joanne Burke, have also made seven documentaries over these years and are working on a eighth.
He now divides his time between Paris and New York.

Reviews

[Mo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I studied this book during my militery service program!

[Katsumi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although Street Talk 2 shares many of the strengths of the first book (sample dialogues, plain English translation, exercises etc.), I found the vocabulary much less useful than in Street Talk 1.