Street Spanish 3: The Best of Naughty Spanish
You've mastered Spanish slang, conquered popular idioms, yet still feel like an outsider. The reason is simple. You haven't discovered the third piece to understanding everyday Spanish: popular expletives and obscenities - those back-alley words and phrases constantly used in movies, books and conversations between native speakers.
Street Spanish 3 is the first step-by-step guide of its kind to explore the most common curses, vulgarities, and obscenities used in many Spanish-speaking countries. Chapters include:
- Dating Slang
- Nonvulgar Insults & Putdowns
- Vulgar Insults & Name-Calling
- Body Parts in Slang
- Sexual Slang
- Bodily Functions, Sounds & Smells
- Being Obscene Unintentionally!
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Book details
- Author
- David Burke
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 258
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Language Study › Spanish
- Topics
- Spanish slang · Spanish obscenities · insults and putdowns · sexual slang · colloquial Spanish · vulgar language · Spanish idioms
- ISBN-13
- 9780471179726 (Paperback)9781620455869 (Hardcover)
About the author
DAVID BURKE is a Los Angeles-based language expert and author of more than 100 books on slang and idioms in multiple languages, published under his imprint Slangman Publishing, which he founded in 1986.
Burke’s materials are used as curriculum by Berlitz International, UCLA, Harvard University, and NYU. In 1999, he became known as "Slangman" through a six-year segment on Voice of America, reaching over 250 million listeners in 120 countries.
When not writing, Burke works as a public speaker on language and has drawn on his background giving tours at Universal Studios in Hollywood in English, French, Italian, and sign language, an experience that shaped his focus on accessible language learning for teens, adults, and children.
David lives in Los Angeles.