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Do you go on vacation praying that everyone will speak English? Want to learn enough Spanish and French for situations like in hotels and restaurants, but don't want to buy a 30-hour course to try and make you 'fluent' ? Want a book that teaches you useful phrases like 'Can I have the check, please?" and "I have a reservation in the name of Smith", and not stuff you will never say like "This broccoli is under-cooked"? Want to do all that in a week or two?

This six-session language course introduces Colombian-accented Spanish specifically tailored for tourists new to Spanish. The curriculum assumes no previous background in Spanish and teaches essential phrases and vocabulary needed for travel. The focus is on words and phrases that you can easily put to use during your time in the beautiful central American country of Colombia.

This is your introduction to Venezuelan Spanish, including unique Venezuelan words and idioms and an introduction to Venezuelan customs. This is paired with introductory Spanish as used in Venezeula. This course will help prepare you for work or travel in Venezeula. Topics covered include culture, food, customs, and detail on pronunciation and basic grammar. Vocabulary is organized thematically across a range of topics including numbers, colors, weather, questions, verbs, greetings, manners, animals, vehicles, places, and many more words and phrases that you can put to use daily.

Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later.

Cultural knowledge is an essential part of any language learning. It is the backbone of a language’s personality and the main ingredient to a language’s unique flavor. It is no different in the case of the oh-so-diverse Spanish. What means baby in one part of the Hispanic world might mean bus in another (we’re looking at you, guagua), and what is considered socially acceptable in one might be a cultural offense in another.

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World demonstrates that piracy is key to explaining the surprising longevity of Spain's Asian empire, which survived the Age of Revolutions and endured almost to the end of the nineteenth century. It offers important new insight into piracy's impact on the trajectory of globalization and European imperial expansion in maritime Asia.

Responding to the many requests from their students, Gordon and Cynthia, of LightSpeed Spanish, have created the perfect book for any enthusiastic student of the Spanish language. This fantastic resource walks you through a step by step guide on how to use Ser and Estar like a native speaker. It’s packed with exercises that not only build your confidence but also use your growing knowledge to reinforce that learning.

In this book, you will learn useful, everyday words in Spanish. This book utilizes tried and true methods that will make learning Spanish fun and easy.

This audiobook will show you that learning Spanish is quite simple once you know the basics. You will find that many Spanish words are similar to English ones. Also, you will learn that verb conjugation follows a regular pattern for most verbs, which means that once you learn it, you can simply apply it to every regular verb.

Six Scandalous Short Stories in Spanish follows the mischief and misfortunes of various characters as they pursue romance in modern-day Spain. The stories are guaranteed to leave you wide-eyed, jaw-to-the-floor, and clutching your pearls while taking your Spanish to the next level.

Do you want to speak Spanish fluently in various situations on holiday? Listen to "Spanish on Holiday: De vacaciones - New Edition". This audio course quickly and effectively prepares you for going abroad. The course teaches the authentic language used in everyday situations. Each lesson presents a new subject of typical conversations and teaches how to form sentences independently. Why choose the course? "Spanish on Holiday - New Edition" covers 12 main topics, and the dialogues and exercises in each lesson are aimed at learning and mastering over 800 expressions and complete sentences.

If you are ready to move out of the elementary level and build your intermediate Spanish comprehension, then this audiobook is the perfect stepping stone. Download to get started today.

Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Refresher - Spanish, a completely new way to learn Spanish with ease! Refresher - Spanish will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Spanish and Mexican friends.

On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it’s only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was responsible, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she or her sisters reveal that they saw planes bearing swastikas, the gestapo will silence them—by any means necessary.

Are you frustrated with trying to learn Spanish using grammar rules, hundreds of vocabulary words to memorize, and verb conjugations? Look no further! This Spanish phrase book is the solution to language learning that you have been waiting for! The Spanish language is so beautiful to listen to and to speak, right?! The secret to unlocking your full potential is to learn Spanish phrases, not just words! This book will build up your confidence while empowering you to speak to someone in just two weeks! Come join the fun with so many others who have used this book to become bilingual!

Don Pedro Garcia believes the drunken Captain Sanchez' claim that the Don's only son is still alive and living among the savages in New Spain's uncharted wilderness.

Do you want to say more than simple words in Spanish, and sound like a native Spanish speaker simultaneously? Then you are in the right place. Here are the most common and used basic 1,000 Spanish phrases "according to the experts" that people use every day. They are useful phrases that will help you in any situation.

A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family’s history in the process. This new middle grade standalone mystery from the author of the Muse Squad series is perfect for fans of Doll Bones and The Girl and the Ghost!

Created by Olly Richards, language teacher and author, Revolutions of the World in Simple Spanish gives you an experience in real Spanish that you won’t find anywhere else.

When legendary Charlie Siringo wrote this classic work, he was only 30 years old and had already spent half that life as a cowboy. With enduring wit, he tells the tale of long cattle drives, small-town beauties, meetings with Billy the Kid, and growing up on the Texas frontier. In plain language you'll hear what it was like to live on the "hurricane deck of a Spanish pony" for months on end, earning enough to head into town and have a good time. Crisscrossing the Lone Star State, he lived a vanishing way of life.