The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms
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For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents.
With more than 4,000 Spanish expressions arranged by keyword, numerous example sentences, and an extensive index for cross-referencing, you can quickly find phrase-based translations by way of either English or Spanish. Compact and comprehensive, this tool is perfect for a student’s backpack or a translator’s briefcase.
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Publisher : McGraw Hill; 1st edition (July 15, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 0071433023
ISBN-13 : 978-0071433020
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.91 x 9 inches
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Thadd –
Love it! Highly recommend it for an advanced student of the Spanish language
Very comprehensive and easy to use. There are so many interesting entries. It has made conversing with individuals from different countries much easier. I speak and read Spanish well, but within the grand cluster of countries that are Spanish speaking there are unique nuances…this book has been a fun and informative tool. I would love to have one in English too…imagine understanding ALL of the idioms from my Irish, British, and Australian friends. That would be great!Muchisimas gracias!
Joel –
Splendid
I keep this one by the toilet. It is an excellent guide to Spanish idioms that I find engaging, informative, and entertaining.One thing that I wish they would do — and that is instead of giving the English gloss for an idiom, give us the direct translation as well as the gloss. I look to such guides as a way of improving my cultural appreciation of the language. You can get that from this book, but you have to work a little harder. Maybe that is the best thing after all?
aoceg –
Rare Not To Find Expressions
This dictionary is an excellent reference. It’s rare not to find an expression in here. However, I personally find it hard to understand at times because some translations are grouped together and you can’t tell if you’re still reading the translation or if it’s moved on to another expression.
Ricardo Cielo –
The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms
A great book to keep within reach when you are writing essays, notes and letters to help express the thought you want to convey to the reader. If you have an ideaa of what the word might be lookitup on the Spanish section and if you can only think of the English word look in the English sectio. It is an easy to use book and has sentences using the phrase/idiom that will aid you to write your thoughts.
Geoffrey Dean Jones –
Are you trying to teach yourself Spanish- or taking a class?
I love this book because I will be able to speak Spanish more like a native. This book has so many words, and phrases (idioms)- with samples of how to use them- that I feel I will soon have confidence to speak Spanish and the other person will better understand me. 🙂
Mike in Elmhurst –
Excellent!
As a bilingual American, this book has really been a great help in giving the Spanish I speak a lot more versatility and variety. It is fascinating to see the many ways to say things idiomatically. Many of the expressions are somewhat unique to certain countries and in using them, I have drawn a few blank stares but mostly the book has been a valuable and very entertaining tool in vocabulary and linquistic growth.
L. S. Brodsky –
This has everything!
This has more in it than anyone could ever need or want, Wow! Imagine the effort to compile this….the only problem is that I cannot begin to remember most of these that I read because there is nothing intuitive about an idiom. Definitely nice, though.
iffish –
GARBAGE. Waste of $$. Few idioms, almost zero common phrasal idioms – it is just a poor dictionary.
I have dozens of Spanish books. This is the worst – and it makes me angry because it is so useless. I don’t know where the high ratings came from. Almost all the entries are single words; close to zero common multi-word idiomatic phrases. Should I throw my copy away…or try to sell it to a sucker?I’ve been reading Harry Potter in Spanish, and I often find phrases which don’t make any sense to me whatsoever on a literal basis. For example, I just encountered “Tia Petunia preparó una cena por todo lo alto”. “por todo lo alto” is an IDIOM; but you won’t get any help with that phrase in this book. On the other hand, when I type it into my Spanish dictionary app, it pops up immediately: “very fine, big-time synonyms “excelente, lujoso”.There are very few actual phrasal idioms in this book, and those which it does contain are almost all things you could figure out simply by looking up the words one by one and putting them together with only a little imagination. THAT IS NOT AN IDIOM. And since it is so empty, almost any attempt to look up a phrase which is actually in use will come up blank — wasting your time. So it is completely useless as anything but an ordinary dictionary of single words and, even in that sense, you can probably find a vastly better dictionary app for less than $5 — or use a free internet search.This is really sad, because Spanish (as with English) has many, many 3-5 word commonly used IDIOMS which deserve a book of their own — but this isn’t that. Again, this is useless if you are really desiring to look up common multi-word idioms. The authors should be embarrassed for foisting it off as a book of idioms, when it most certainly is not. And as a dictionary, as I already said, it is obsoleted by the internet.I have NO idea why it has high ratings. It doesn’t even deserve a “one star” by my criteria. And it is massively incomplete as a simple dictionary.If anyone can point me to an actual compendium of unusual, but commonly used, idiomatic Spanish phrases, I would appreciate it.
Aala Saravi –
Well compiled book … A great reference book…Thank you
Bruce Stevens –
Interesting to learn what expressions they use, and how they are applied. Lots of familiar ones to English speakers and it is useful to know the Spanish version.
Mrs. G. H. Bayes –
A very useful book for those seriously learning Spanish.
xueyaqi –
soy estudiante chino,este libro para estudiar español sea más bueno que los libro Chino – Español.pienso que ingles y español se parece mucho.
jenny –
I like it a lot. I actually am the sort of person who reads textbooks and dictionaries for relaxation (!!!!!!!) and although of course it doesn’t all sink in at once, a lot of it will ring a bell when you meet it, or are trying to think of an expression at a later date, and then at any rate you know how to go about finding it through key words. I find the index useful. I can well believe that a lot of currently ‘in’ idioms may not be found in it – after all it is a book and slang is constantly updating, so it can’t keep itself 100% up to date – but for the kind of reading, writing and conversation I’m doing,in classes and with a couple of Spanish friends,I find it extremely helpful.