Getting Along in Spanish: a Holiday magazine language book

196 Pages·1961·12.87 MB·English

by  Mario Pei

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A HOUDAY MAGAZINE LANGUAGE BOOK FOR
BEGINNERS BY MARIO PEI AND ELOYVAQUERO
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'Jliis new, handy language aid for studcDls and
travelers contains over HOC) essential, ready^lo-
use everyday phrases, a simple pronunciation
guide, a.eondensed grammar, and a basic ]80()-word
voealmiary in English-Spanish and Spanish-English.

DR. MARIO PEI
The brilliant co-author of GETTING ALONG
IN SPANISH is professor of Romance Philology
(the linguistics, culture and literature of the
Latin-based languages) at Columbia University.
Mario Pel was born in Rome and came to this
country as a small boy. He was educated in
New York, taught at City College from 1923
to 1937, and has been at Columbia ever since.
During World War II Professor Pei created a
thirty-seven-language course at Columbia, called
"The World's Chief Languages." He has
broadcast for the Voice of America and Radio
Free Europe in French, Italian, German, Dutch,
Czech, and Rumanian.
Except, possibly, for one member of the United
Nations Secretariat, Mario Pei has been said
to read, speak, and understand more languages
than any other living man.
Getting Along in Spanish
BY MARIO PEI AND ELOY VAQUERO
THE EASY WAY TO LEARN TO SPEAK
AND UNDERSTAND SPANISH

GETTING ALONG
IN
SPANISH
A HOLIDAY MAGAZINE LANGUAGE BOOK
BY MARIO PEI
Professor of Romance Philology, Columbia University
and
ELOY VAQUERO
Lecturer in Spanish, Columbia University
with the editorial collaboration of
JOSE MARTEL
Professor of Spanish,
Fairleigh Dickinson University
and
JOHN FISHER
Assistant Professor of Languages,
fairleigh Dickinson University
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NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED
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OFTTINO ALONG IN SPANISH
A Bantam BooHka/rppueblris&hedBrobtyherasrrangement with
Printing History
Harper edition published October 1957
Bantam edition published April 1959
Bantam Reference Library edition published September 1961
Copyright © 1957 by Mario A. Pet
All rights In this book are reserved. No part of the book may be
used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written per-
mission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical
articles and reviews.
The author gratefully acknowledges Ms Indebtedness to the Curtis
Publishing Company for permitting the use of the author's HOLIDAY
magazine article in Part I of this work.
Copyright © 1955 by Curtis Publishing Company.
Cover photo by Max Tatch from Shostal
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Contents
I The Spanish Language 1
n Phrases 14
1. Passport 14
2. Customs 15
3. Baggage 18
4. Tickets 19
5. Travel by Ship 22
6. Travel by Train or Plane 24
7. Travel by Bus or Streetcar 28
8. Travel by Taxi or Other Hired Conveyance 29
9. Driving Your Own Car 30
10. Hotel, Boardinghouse, Apartment 35
11. Money, Bank, Measures 42
12. Writing and Post Office 46
13. Cable and Telephone • 47
14. Shopping 50
15. Places of Interest (Church, Theater, Sight-seeing,
Night Life) 59
16. Medical, Dental, Drugstore, Parts of Body 62
17. Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Barbershop, Beauty Salon 67
18. Food, Restaurant, Dishes 70
19. Numerals 83
20. Time of Day, Week, Month, Seasons, Weather, Age 84
21. Emergencies and Language Difficulties 89
22. Exclamations, Colloquialisms, Slang 94
23. Greetings, Etiquette, Social Amenities 95
24. Directions and Signs 100
m
Grammatical Outline 106
IV English-Spanish Vocabulary 126
V
Spanish-EnglishVocabulary 166