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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica Spanish Phrasebook (Phrasebooks) by Thomas B. Kohnstamm ISBN: 1-86450-105-7 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't leave home without it
Comment: This book was immensely helpful when myself and two other girls traveled to Costa Rica for a week and a half. You don't need to speak spanish in Costa Rica, but it's much more fun when you can immerse yourself in their culture. And the Costa Rican people are so nice and more than willing to help you learn. This phrase book was great and had all phrases under the sun that you might need. We used mine so much the binding has fallen apart. This thing went everywhere, the pool, horseback riding, whitewater rafting... and survived. The two-way dictionary was great when shopping in small markets where no english was spoken. It's very organized too. I highly recommend this book when you go to Costa Rica.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very useful and easy to pack phrasebook
Comment: This book was pretty much my bible when I spent 6 weeks in beautiful Costa Rica this winter. I was studying Spanish in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. All of us students were clutching this book, especially the first couple of weeks. The phrasebook has a complete listing of words for any situation. It saved my life getting busses, ordering in restaurants, meeting new people, getting directions, talking politics and even talking with biologists. And, I really appreciated the listing of tico words, cultural tidbits, and Costa Rican expressions. The most entertaining chapter in the phrasebook has to be the "Dating and Romance" section where everything from "Can I buy you a drink" to "Can I take you home" and finally "Will you marry me" is translated! Oh yes, and "This isn't working out!" In any event, I highly recommend this book to novice Spanish speakers, in Costa Rica. It will help you get by on either a short or long stay. Pura vida!
P.S. That guy from Forest Hill NY who considers running down rare birds in Costa Rica on his motorcycle to be at worst a form of entertainment... at best, something funny to joke about (see review of Lonely Planet Costa Rica Guidebook).... kinda lacks social skills and should be banned from any tropical paradise where he is not confined to the grounds of the local Club Med. IMHO. :)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dialogue & Dialects
Comment: This little phrasebook is invaluable because Costa Rican Spanish is dialectical! Another book I found that spoke to Costa Rica's idiosyncracies was "Costa Rica: The Last Country The Gods Made," sort of a hybrid of a coffee-table book, a social/ politcial discussion and a geological history of the country in a series of essays and sidebars. It truly does lives up to it's scope of topics. Aside from geology and social history, it covers the political and economic history of the country and emphasizes its liberal reformist tradition as exceptional in Central America.A series of essays by the two authors A good read, especially while one is traveling because the 2-30 page segments stand on their own.
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica (LONELY PLANET COSTA RICA) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 1740591186 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Insight Map Costa Rica: Fleximap Plus Travel Information by American Map Corporation ISBN: 0841620857 Publisher: American Map Company Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Frommer's Costa Rica 2004 by Eliot Greenspan ISBN: 0764537458 Publisher: Frommer Pub. Date: 11 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: National Geographic Adventure Costa Rica by National Geographic ISBN: 1566951534 Publisher: Rand McNally & Co Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Moon Handbooks: Costa Rica 4 Ed by Christopher P. Baker ISBN: 1566913446 Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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