Spanish for real situations.
Straight-to-the-point guides for the moments that actually happen on a trip, and for the things worth understanding once you are there. Each one gives you the handful of sentences that carry the situation, with audio on every line and the notes that keep you from sounding off.
Spanish for restaurants
Every phrase you need in a Spanish speaking restaurant, in the order you will need it, from asking for a table to asking for the bill.
Spanish at the airport
Check in, security, gates and lost luggage, with the phrases the announcements actually use rather than the ones in a phrasebook.
Spanish for a hotel
Spanish for a hotel: booking, checking in, fixing a problem with the room and checking out, in the phrases hotel staff actually use, with audio.
One page per country, because the customs and even the words differ: a belén in Spain, a nacimiento in Mexico, a pesebre in much of South America.
Christmas in Spain
Nochebuena dinner, the lottery on 22 December, twelve grapes at midnight and the Three Kings.
Christmas in Mexico
las posadas, the piñata, ponche, the nacimiento and the rosca de reyes on 6 January.
Christmas in Latin America
the late Nochebuena dinner, the midnight toast, the pesebre and a Christmas in summer.
From the blog: Christmas in Spain: the lottery, the grapes and the Kings · Christmas in South America: midnight, candles and summer
Halloween in Spain sits next to an old public holiday for visiting graves. In South America it is a night for children, then the Andes remember their dead. The Day of the Dead in Mexico is something else entirely.
Halloween in Spain
costume parties, visiting graves, roast chestnuts and huesos de santo.
Halloween in South America
trick or treat in Colombia, creole music in Peru, and the Day of the Dead in the Andes.
Day of the Dead in Mexico
the ofrenda, pan de muerto, sugar skulls, marigolds and La Catrina.
From the blog: Halloween in Spain, and the quiet holiday the next day · Halloween in South America, and the older days after it
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