¡Ahora Hablo! Travel Edition: Be More Spanish Savvy
How many times have you been in a foreign country and desperately wished you knew enough language to make a phone call, order a meal, or change money? Well, if you’re in a Spanish-speaking country, now you can with language teacher M. H. Graham’s ¡Ahora Hablo! Travel Edition (Megusta Publishing, 2006).
Graham’s idea is to divide learning Spanish into seven steps that cover things like “to ask if something is acceptable or if you can do something;” “to describe someone or something;” “to ask or say there is;” “to state a need,” and more. She also gives vocabulary lists that include things like emergencies, at the hotel, shopping, telephone, talking with police, and at the restaurant and others.
She encourages readers to use the seven steps and vocabulary to think through what they want to say and write it down in the notes sections scattered throughout the book. It’s a practical approach that enables readers to expand their language beyond the simple sentences offered.
It’s a strategy that RFT editors could have used on a recent trip to Spain. We took two Spanish phrase books that proved entirely useless. Had we carried ¡Ahora Hablo! with its practical approach and short, easy-to-read chapters, we would have had it much easier during those times when everyone spoke only Spanish. (And we probably wouldn’t have ended up with two desserts when we thought we were ordering just one.) While ¡Ahora Hablo! won’t enable you to be fluent in Spanish, it will give you much-needed tools to make your travel in Spanish-speaking countries more comfortable and fun.
¡Ahora Hablo! Travel Edition
Megusta Publishing
414-331-7178
www.ahorahablo.com
