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 quick delivery; great condition!! Feb 21, 2008
no probs with this order, id mos def recommend this book to anyone looking to learn words that aren't typically found in the tumba burros you get from the bookstore.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Magnífico trabajo | Great work May 28, 2007
La idea de un diccionario que recoja las peculiaridades idiomáticas de los distintos países hispanos empezaba a ser una necesidad. El trabajo recopilatorio que ha dado vida a este diccionario, tanto más valioso cuanto que no ha sido realizado por académicos, resulta una ayuda extraordinaria para todos aquellos que deseen comprender mejor la hermosa diversidad de una América Latina que posee un latiente corazón común: La hispanidad.
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This dictionary is simply great; it was needed to compilate all the Latin America's idiomatic peculiarities, so this dictionary becomes a wonderful tool to better understand the beautiful diversity which beats in Latin America as only one heart: Hispanity.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Indispensible Mar 04, 2007
I have used (and love) the website that accompanies this book - www.jergasdehablahispana.org - I love that it's organized by country, but you have to click on each letter over and over. Great information, but too much clicking. So...the wonderful solution is this book. I, personally, love the way this is organized. I love having a portable version of the website. And as far as thoroughness, this wins hands down! I have not seen another source in print or online that offers such an extensive collection of Spanish slang and colloquialisms. As an interpreter this ranks as one of my favorite resources.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Orden alfabético único en lugar del agrupamiento por países Feb 12, 2007
Soy interprete profesional y traductor y he adquirido este libro para agregar vocablos de jerga a mi tarea habitual en las cortes e institutos policiales y de detención.
El ordenamiento de vocablos por países NO me resulta práctico; se hace engorroso buscar las expresiones ordenadas por país ante una situación de emergencia y tal cosa no es práctica dado que usualmente el mismo término es utilizado por varios países.
Preferiria que la autora hubiese agrupado TODOS los terminos en UN solo ordenamiento, y que - si le interesase aportar datos originarios de cada término - lo hubiese aclarado al lado de cada uno, lo cual usualmente es poco relevante para la tarea profesional de interpretación o traducción.
En síntesis, como libro de consulta profesional resulta poco útil porque su diseño ha sido imaginado con un criterio de clasificacion erróneo.
El contenido específico del libro tampoco es completo; me hubiese gustado que la autora se tomase el trabajo de investigar un poco más algunas expresiones que suelen tener varios significados.
EG
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Outstanding! Oct 11, 2006
Wow! This book is a TREASURE! Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it is far and away the most useful of all Spanish slang dictionaries. I disagree that it is only useful to fluent speakers of Spanish or advanced students -- it is also an essential tool for Spanish learners who listen to popular Spanish-language music, those who have native Spanish-speaking friends, ESL teachers, translators (to and from Spanish), Spanish instructors; in short, to anyone interested in the language, from academics to lovers of word play.
Jergas de Habla Hispana is a Spanish-Spanish dictionary, not a "learn Spanish" book, but it is an exciting new resource for learners and lovers of the language, a-finger-on-the-pulse compendium of slang and regionalisms from all Spanish-speaking countries -- including the growing "Spanglish" of the US.
In the past ten years or so as the US has firmly taken its place as the third-largest Spanish-speaking country, hundreds of new "learn Spanish" books and dictionaries have been published -- many of them, frankly, big yawns... or rip-offs.
Jergas de Habla Hispana is all "meat." It's a delight. Buy it!
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