Thornton & Ortega Publishing
Spanish

Spanish for Latin America Travel

5 hilarious short stories for beginners to build vocabulary, learn everyday Spanish, and prepare for your trip to Latin America

10 chapters · 280 pages · Level Beginner · EPUB & PDF

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About this book

Jake learns twenty Spanish words on his phone the night before he arrives in a small town in northern Mexico. The first man he asks for directions answers at full speed, and Jake catches two of them: derecha and la iglesia.

These stories are written to close that gap before your own trip. You follow Jake through Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba and Peru, and the Spanish you pick up is the Spanish of the moments a traveler faces: asking an innkeeper for a cuarto, signing a rental contrato in Havana, listening to a mechanic explain a fuga, accepting hojas de coca when the mal de altura hits in Peru.

Every chapter ends with a vocabulary table and a quiz with its answer key. Every story closes with a retelling exercise that makes you put the new words to work, and a final quiz draws on all five countries. A full English translation of each chapter sits at the back, so you can check a sentence without losing the thread.

You reach Machu Picchu with Jake already knowing the words for the room, the rental car, the breakdown and the altitude, before you need any of them yourself.

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