Product Description

Its not the Spanish you learned in high school. This uncensored language guide has everything you need to speak real Spanish, from cool lingo to hard-core insults. Learn the lingo on love, sex, extreme sports, fashion, gossip, partying and much more. Also exposed in "Hide This Book" are hilarious mishaps, social trends, and cool cultural features. Entertaining as well as enlightening, this is one language reference you'll enjoy reading cover to cover.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #348303 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 94 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9789812464309
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"It ditches the strait-laced schoolmarm approach and starts rockin' from the first chapter." Chicago Tribune. "Flipping through the book is a joy... care has been taken to warn you which phrases are really crude and which are incredibly vulgar. Annotations provide cultural clues and contexts, telling you how a Spaniard might use or view the phrase... It's a good tool for the inquisitive traveller to browse, and the gregarious traveller to carry in a pocket or bag on the way to the bar." About.com.

About the Author
In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Customer Reviews

If you really want to know what's being said. . .
you've got to get this book.

Whenever a guy wants to learn a foreign language, he wants to learn the "dirty" words. This books deals with those words, but it's NOT limited to just "dirty" words. Instead, it's more of an updated and real world Spanish phrase / slang book that covers the following subjects:

1. Basic Expressions or "How to say hello without sounding geeky"

2. from Hooking Up to Breaking Up

3. Love and Sex

4. Gay and Lesbian Life

5. Sports and Games

6. Shopping

7. Fashion

8. Body

9. Technology

10. Gossip

11. Food

12. Partying

13. Entertainment

14. Gestures

If you travel to different Spanish speaking countries, the book identifies the words and phrases / slangs that have unique meaning in certain countries, e.g. the word "coger."

If you're a sports fan and you like to attend sporting events, this book explains what the fans are chanting. Words that you won't find in any Spanish dictionary or phrase book.

If you're a female, I strongly recommend this book. When I was traveling through Peru, I meet a woman from Switzerland who was backpacking alone through South America for 6 months. Being alone, she was being harassed by men. A Peruvian woman took pity on her and helped her develop a list of words and phrases to tell guys to leave her alone. She showed me that list. Many of the words and phrases on that list can be found in this book. I think she would have benefited from having this book in her travel.

If you need to know how to pronounce the words and phrases in this book, Berlitz has a website where you can hear it so you can pronounce it correctly:

http://www.berlitzbooks.com/hidethisbook.htm

I personally refrain from using foul language and I'm not impressed with those that do, but the use of foul language is a fact of life even in Spanish speaking countries. You don't have to use it, but you should be able to recognize it especially if it's being directed at you. In the case of the Swiss woman who was traveling alone, her usage of insult and profanity to ward off unwanted attention may have been her only defense when confronted with a harasser.

One final thing. . . this is not a comprehensive book. I'm familiar with a few common Mexican slang / insult words and those words aren't found in this book. Perhaps Berlitz is going to come out with a "Hide This Mexican Spanish Book"?

gave as a gift
she loved it mad me happy. tells you all the other stuff to say in spanish way funny

Comprehensive Review
This book is great -- it thoroughly addresses the different slang words you would want to know. It doesn't give every word, and some of the translations are a teensy bit off ("tengo un sed" instead of "tengo sed" for "I am thirsty") but nothing's perfect. A great buy!