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HR12 60c 5» A HOUDAY MAGAZINE LANGUAGE BOOK FOR BEGINNERS BY MARIO PEI AND ELOYVAQUERO •« • f(t«M««tj '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 I — BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK This low-priced Bantam Book has hfc'i corr.pU'tely reset in a Ivpc face ('esinneil for easy reotlina. anil was printed from new plates. It contains the complete text of the original hard-cover edition. NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED ^ 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 Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada, Bantam BooksarepublishedbyBantamBooks, Inc. Itstrade-mark, consistingofthewords "BantamBooks"andtheportrayalofaban- tam, is registered in the United States Patent Office and in other countries. Marca liegistrada. Printed in the United States of Amer- ica. Bantam Books, Inc., 271 Madison Ave., New York 16, N. Y. 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

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