101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Learn the Slang, Soul, & Style of Mexican Spanish (Spanish Edition)
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Improve your spoken Spanish from home with 101 real-world conversations in intermediate Mexican Spanish. Real Mexicans don’t speak like your textbook… so it’s no wonder you struggle with the slang and expressions of spoken Mexican Spanish! This book fixes that. For the first time, you’ll learn to move beyond beginner level, and speak Spanish in the real world! With 101 authentic conversations in intermediate Mexican Spanish, and a brand-new story in this edition, you’ll become confident in the words, phrases and expressions you need to communicate like a local. 101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish transports you into a real-world, brand-new story that unfolds between eight Mexican characters, told by the people themselves. Over 15,000 words of real Mexican Spanish, you’ll immerse yourself in a gripping Mexican drama and get an education in natural Spanish in the process. In this story, you will read about Tavo, an everyday simple man living in the city of Guadalajara. He is an office worker in TechnoLine and the sole financial support for his elderly parents. One day, a new man takes over managing Tavo’s office. He is Abram, the CEO’s nephew, and he does not like Tavo… Here’s what you’ll get: 101 conversations in intermediate Mexican Spanish, so you can learn the real Spanish spoken in the street, understand spoken Mexican slang with ease, and have local expressions roll off your tongue more fluently Over 15,000 words of dialogue - an unparalleled resource that will immerse you in Spanish, at a level you can understand. You’ll learn real spoken Spanish without getting lost or overwhelmed Real, daily spoken Mexican Spanish throughout - it’s as if we held up a microphone and recorded the exact words coming out of people’s mouths - so you can learn the expressions that real people use on the street (not in textbooks). You’ll sound more authentic when you speak and make Spanish-speaking friends more easily. Situational dialogues from typical daily circumstances, so you can prepare yourself to survive realistic Mexican Spanish encounters, in shops, cafés, and on the street, making meeting people second nature Conversations that are carefully written to be accessible for intermediate learners (B1-B2 on the CEFR), so you can learn from real, spoken conversations, without having to go through the rollercoaster of difficult conversations with strangers Each conversation is limited to around 15 lines of dialogue (150 words), so you can get that crucial sense of achievement and motivation when you finish each conversation, and say “I actually understood all of that!” Word lists with English definitions in every chapter, so you can get instant translations of any difficult words. This means you can focus on enjoying the story rather than wasting time in a dictionary (Kindle & Paperback only) Summaries of each conversation which contextualise each dialogue, so you can easily follow the plot and enjoy the story without getting lost Created by Olly Richards, internationally-renowned language teacher and author, 101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish gives you an experience in real Spanish that you won’t find anywhere else. You’ll be better prepared for using Spanish in the real world, speak with more confidence, and take a giant leap towards fluency in Spanish! SCROLL UP AND GRAB YOUR COPY NOW Review: Held My Interest, Kept Me Reading and Learning - I am a life-time student of Spanish, from high school into retirement years. I have taken many conversational courses in the US, immersion courses in Mexico, and now three years of courses as a retiree in Chapala, MX. I have accumulated over all this time a huge box of Spanish textbooks, dictionaries, and flashcards...The result has been some learning but lots of frustration and boredom with it all. 101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish has been a revelation and a JOY! I love this little book, its characters, story and brief chapters of dialogue with glossary of key words and phrases. The simplicity of real-world conversations make you move from chapter to chapter with growing confidence and usable vocabulary. Anyone who has or has had a job, coworkers, bosses and family can relate to the unfolding story. Congrats Olly on providing a new way of learning USEFUL Spanish...pain-free!!!!! Review: Another superb addition to the 101 Conversation Series - I have the 101 Conversation Series in Spanish, Italian and French. This is another superb addition to the Spanish branch of the series. For any language basic grammar needs to be learned, but it is dry and only serves as a background for conversation and understanding. Most people speak less formally than they write and in some languages like French one almost has to learn two separate languages. So many times conversation has "fillers," idioms, or phrases that don't appear in textbooks and until one learns them one has trouble following a conversation or even following all but the most formal writing. This book, like the others in the series, shows you how it all fits together and allows you to communicate with people and understand how language is used in the context of telling a story or simply getting or relaying information in everyday situations. And, while Spanish is an international language, it has its regional variances and idioms as anyone from Spain (or speaking Castilian Spanish) who has used the word coger to mean take in Mexico quickly learns. Mexican Spanish serves as a reminder that there are differences between Castilian and Mexican (and South American) Spanish. And it does it all in a fun way!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 649 Reviews |
K**S
Held My Interest, Kept Me Reading and Learning
I am a life-time student of Spanish, from high school into retirement years. I have taken many conversational courses in the US, immersion courses in Mexico, and now three years of courses as a retiree in Chapala, MX. I have accumulated over all this time a huge box of Spanish textbooks, dictionaries, and flashcards...The result has been some learning but lots of frustration and boredom with it all. 101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish has been a revelation and a JOY! I love this little book, its characters, story and brief chapters of dialogue with glossary of key words and phrases. The simplicity of real-world conversations make you move from chapter to chapter with growing confidence and usable vocabulary. Anyone who has or has had a job, coworkers, bosses and family can relate to the unfolding story. Congrats Olly on providing a new way of learning USEFUL Spanish...pain-free!!!!!
A**D
Another superb addition to the 101 Conversation Series
I have the 101 Conversation Series in Spanish, Italian and French. This is another superb addition to the Spanish branch of the series. For any language basic grammar needs to be learned, but it is dry and only serves as a background for conversation and understanding. Most people speak less formally than they write and in some languages like French one almost has to learn two separate languages. So many times conversation has "fillers," idioms, or phrases that don't appear in textbooks and until one learns them one has trouble following a conversation or even following all but the most formal writing. This book, like the others in the series, shows you how it all fits together and allows you to communicate with people and understand how language is used in the context of telling a story or simply getting or relaying information in everyday situations. And, while Spanish is an international language, it has its regional variances and idioms as anyone from Spain (or speaking Castilian Spanish) who has used the word coger to mean take in Mexico quickly learns. Mexican Spanish serves as a reminder that there are differences between Castilian and Mexican (and South American) Spanish. And it does it all in a fun way!
D**S
Olly makes language learning fun & easy
Olly's approach is to encourage students to access a breadth of materials instead of going super deep in any one area. The result is that you expose yourself to more materials and have more fun in the process. It is a good reminder to me and helps keep my language learning journey fresh and fun. Conversations in Mexican Spanish is another great addition to Olly's "Conversations" series. Highly recommend.
J**T
I had a ball reading this book.
I have been studying Spanish for a while with various resources. I am just finishing up the Rocket Languages Spanish course. Currently I subscribe to Lingquistica 360's news service app. I throughly enjoy reading the news in Spanish every morning. It gives word and phrases that you will not come across in most courses. The app highlights some vocabulary in red, which, when touched, give an English translation. I enjoy the app but it is work. In contrast Olly Richard's book was pure fun. The vocabulary fit like a glove. I knew or was fimiliar with most of the words. I could figure out most of what I was unfamilar with. This made the reading go very quickly, which provide a feel for how the language is actually spoken. Time and time again I founds myself thinking, "Oh, that's how you would say that." Words like quedar and llevar, which have multiple meaning and uses, were more comprehensible when experienced in real conversation. I could not resist reading the story aloud, acting out the emotions. We all learned our mother tongue in conversation. Olly's book provides a similar experience. I cannot recommend it enough.
B**S
Loving this book!
The story is really good, about Tavo who works with his friends and their having to deal with work stuff and some new douche bag hired by nepotism, and Tavo also helps his parents a lot. The conversations in Spanish are easy to follow and have short vocabulary lists after each conversation. The vocab list doesn't show every single word or phrase but most of them. Not all of it makes sense so I feel like I do use Google Translate more than Olly the Polyglot thinks you should be, but after I read it once without looking anything up, I read the vocab list and translate some things, then read it again, and I can follow the conversation in my head in English and I read it in Spanish. Highly recommend this one.
J**E
Worth it
Very useful for early learning
L**E
Great book for spanish learners!
The story was great and I love the fact that the key words and phrases were translated at the end of each chapter. I hope to see more books like this for spanish learners.
A**O
Enjoying the short stories, learning a lot!
I'm only on the 6th short story but am really enjoying this and think I'm learning a lot about colloquial spoken Spanish. One thing to note, if you look on Amazon/Audible, there are professionally recorded versions of the dialogues at a very reasonable price. The day I bought it the audio book version was under $5. Well worth it, imo. What I'm doing is kind of following their suggested method of reading. 1: read straight through 2: looking at the glossary of new words at the end of each chapter 3: listening to the audio on the audio book 4: read through a second time along with the audio book 5: listen to the audio again to gauge how much I can hear already knowing the dialogue and contexts 6: move on to the next chapter. For a combined $10 for the Kindle version and audiobook, I think it's a great deal and wish I'd stumbled on this sooner.
J**A
En serio muy buen libro :)
¡Está buenísimo! Yo doy clases de español y me ha encantado este libro. Cada capítulo tiene tamaño perfecto para una lección, además de que en verdad tiene expresiones mexicanas. Hay pocos libros de enseñanza del idioma del español mexicano. Este es muy accesible y útil.
J**S
Entertaining, Readable, Engaging, Effective
My wife found Olly's courses on line. She bought the Spanish program and we've been studying it together the past 3 months. I bought us this book of 101 conversations in Mexican Spanish as we are fans of Mexico and have vacationed there the past 3 years. What a thrill to read and feel like we can get the gist of the story. This year we've tried various methods and Olly's is by far the most natural and engaging. The story is entertaining and allows for simple conversations. We have a Mexican Spanish tutor and when we review parts of this book, she agrees that the slang and soul of Mexico is embodied here. We highly recommend his method, his books, and love immersing in the language. We read aloud to each and look forward to hearing it on audio as we do listen to the book we study in his course.
G**Y
Great Spanish learning resource
This is a great resource for learning Spanish for a beginner/intermediate level learner. Not textbook learning but actual conversations that you can follow. I found the story realistic and interesting so that you wanted to keep going. There are handy vocabulary lists at the end of each chapter covering colloquial expressions that you just can't look up in a dictionary.
S**K
Easy and highly enjoyable to read
Like the other 101 Conversations books by Olly Richards, this is a breeze to read. The short chapters really help you read ‘just one more’ and the glossaries of new words and phrases really help when it’s in Mexican Spanish. It’s an addictive read and I highly recommend it.
S**R
Perfekt für mexican spanish
Ich habe mir dieses Buch extra gekauft (digital als Kindle Format), um mit meinen mexikanischen Lehrern das mexikanische Spanisch zu lernen. Die Kapitel sind kurzweilig und sehr wertvoll. Auch meine Lehrer sind positiv angetan von diesem Buch. Kann ich sehr empfehlen. Jeder, der México liebt und das mexikanische Spanisch mit all den Slangausdrücken, die es sehr häufig gibt und der Alltagssprache im Business aber auch in den Familien und unter Freunden, sollte mit diesem Buch arbeiten. Praktisch: Bei jeder Story sind auch Vokabeln enthalten. 5 volle und verdiente Sterne.
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