Synopses & Reviews
A face is worth 1,001 Spanish words Is this man calmado or ansioso? Relajado or estresado? You can easily see by the look on his face that he is stressed out: ansioso and estresado. Using the stories that our faces, appearance, and gestures tell, Spanish in Your Face helps you learn and remember essential Spanish vocabulary and everyday expressions relating to personality, attitudes, moods, and emotions.
This hugely entertaining book is packed with illustrations that will tickle your funny bone and fine-tune your ability to communicate, face-to-face, in Spanish.
Synopsis
The only book to match 1,001 smiles, frowns, laughs, and gestures with words that will liven up your Spanish!In Your Face Spanish! use 150 engaging illustrations to help you make the vital link between emotions,attitudes, moods, and personality types and the expressions used to describe them. Each page features a picture that illustrates a key concept, along with numerous synonyms, presented bilingually, that further enrich your vocabulary.
Synopsis
attitudes, moods, and personality types and the expressions used to describe them. Each page features a picture that illustrates a key concept, along with numerous synonyms, presented bilingually, that further enrich your vocabulary.
About the Author
Luc Nisset is an experienced illustrator and materials developer, with experience working with advertising agencies, and the French, African, Dominican, Haitian and US governments, producing health educational brochures and booklets. He has self-published "le Clin d'Oeil de France," a French-language mazagine, and has also specialized in illustrating idiomatic language books, including: 101 Spanish Idioms, 101 French Idioms, 101 Spanish Riddles, Streetwise French Dictionary/Thesaurus, Streetwise Italian, The Big Red Book of Spanish Slang (2005). Mary McVey Gill is an experienced author of Spanish and ESL textbooks and language-learning materials. She is co-author of The Red Hot Book of Spanish Slang and Streetwise Spanish Dictionary/Thesaurus.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Character and Personality Types Chapter 3: Emotions and Moods Chapter 4: Body and Facial Types Chapter 5: Gestures