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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 917 EAN: 9781881233886 ISBN: 188123388X Label: Costa Rica Books Manufacturer: Costa Rica Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 156 Publication Date: April 01, 2005 Publisher: Costa Rica Books Release Date: April 01, 2005 Studio: Costa Rica Books Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: A complete guide to Spanish for Travelers. Practical Pronunciation Exercises to Help you Sound Like a Native Spanish Speaker Useful expressions for Real Life Situations That You Will Encounter. Costa Rican Slang. Practical Vocabulary, Including Business and Legal Terms. Includes an English/Spanish-Spanish/English Dictionary. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Worth maybe $3 or $4, at most.I wish I would have paid better attention to the reviews, hopefully you will. This book is at most useful in one or two spots. It has no explanations of grammar or usage, and mostly just lists words and phrases with little organization. There is no way to find a phrase on the spot, you just have to browse the whole book to find what you need. It also provides information that is useless. It actually has a list of words not to say to people. The author includes multiple ads throughout the book ... Read More Rating:  - Great bookI am living in Costa Rica part time and this is very handy to have access to words that the Ticos understand and use. [...] Rating: - costa rican spanishVery handy reference and the only one I have found that covers Costa Rican Spanish Rating: - One Star? This is Five Star material!I moved to Costa Rica and use Christopher Howard's Guide to Costa Rica Spanish almost everyday. It is a work of linguistic art. The reader who gave it a one star must be DELUSIONAL and see the world differently from others who have reviewed this useful language guidebook. First, the one-star reviewer complains about the book's dictionary. Since it is a pocket PHRASE book it is impossible to include a lengthy dictionary with every word in a traditional Spanish dictionary. This guide is for those ... Read More Rating:  - Save your money, the Guide to Costa Rican Spanish is not usefulI just returned from a 2-plus week trip to Costa Rica in which I took a Spanish-language immersion class. I had 3 college-level classes of Spanish before I went. I took the book (and left it there) as I did not find it at all useful. Here are my opinions: 1. A very critical pronunciation point was not even covered in this guide. The Costa Ricans pronounce the double ll (calle, apellido) in the same way as the Argentines, as a "dj" sound. So "calle", which in Mexico would be pronounced "ca ... Read More 
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