The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms: 4,000 Idiomatic Expressions

For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents.

With more than 4,000 Spanish expressions arranged by keyword, numerous example sentences, and an extensive index for cross-referencing, you can quickly find phrase-based translations by way of either English or Spanish. Compact and comprehensive, this tool is perfect for a student's backpack or a translator's briefcase.

Customer Reviews:

What can red do for you?

By David Edwards "learned lefty" - August 31, 2005

As frequent Amazon reviewer Erugifog mentions in his list of Spanish reference books, there are a number of entrants in the field of Spanish-English idiom guides. He recommends Eugene Savaiano's "2001 Idioms/2001 Modismos" but also advises shopping around. I found that to be good advice.

Peter Weibel is the latest author to throw his hat into this specialty ring, and I consider his "Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms" the prohibitive leader of the pack at this point. With 12,000 idioms (4,000 in Spanish; double that in English), "Big Red" gets the nod simply because it is newer and, well, purports to have more idioms than any of its other serious rivals. Read the publisher's description and you'll get a good (and accurate -- truth in advertising, how refreshing!) feel for what this book has to offer. I was tempted to give it a five-star rating but changed my mind because I don't think it completely overshadows Savaiano's book. Both are reliable and useful references; if used in... read more

Excellent book BUT beware of the Kindle edition

By Gary J. Shannon "Fiziwig Books" - August 3, 2011

I got this book as a Kindle download, but in the end had to get the paper edition instead. Reference books you want to flip through are not the best choice for Kindle. Also, the book was apparently digitized with a scanner and little proofreading because accented characters show up all sorts of strange ways.

For example "más" with an accented "á" shows up in the text in various ways like: "mas", "m6s", "m3s", "mOs", among others. "está" often shows up as "est6", and so on.

Needless to say you can't search for phrases with those words because "más" won't match "m6s", and also the keyboard does not support Spanish characters anyway, so searching is out of the question.

Save yourself a lot of difficulty and get the paper edition.

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Merchant	Format	Price
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BookByte	Paperback	$9.71
eCampus	Paperback	~~$10.77~~ discount!