Description: This Spanish edition explains how to navigate English's idiom-infested waters. Upgrade skills with idioms essential for daily conversation through a three-step training process that lets readers become familiar with and effectively use idioms every day.
Brief description: A born-and-bred mid-western boy, Peter Liptak is a poet, world traveler and lover of language. Unlike most English majors, he actually made use of his degree teaching English to children and adults in South Korea for the last 20 years, as a private tutor, preschool teacher, and adjunct at Incheon University. While teaching and writing in Seoul, Peter completed a Master's in Korean History, and using Korea as a source of inspiration, linguistic and otherwise, penned several books including the controversial book of Korean Slang: As much as a Rat's Tail, translated the scathing graphic novel The Great Successor Kim Jong Un: a Political Cartoon, and created the Idiom Attack series. You can follow Peter at www.peteliptak.com or www.idiomattack.com
Review Quotes:
1."I felt engaged while reading through the stories and discussion questions provided. The writing style also is straightforward and descriptive." - Stephen Ikimi (Stephen Ikimi's Review)
2."[...] this book is structured in a way that makes it fit to be used as a lesson guide for an advanced or intermediate classroom setting and as a personal study guide for amateurs." - Grace Essien (Grace-Essien's Review)
3."As opposed to many language-learning books, this one introduces the learning method as an easy three step process which ensured the learner has a basic understanding of idioms in the Spanish language." - mim620 (mim620's Review)
4."One of the assets of this book is how every sentence is written in both languages. Because of this, it is appropriate for all ages or skill levels of Spanish learning." - Isabel (Isabel's Review)
5."A very good tool [...] It provides great example sentences, and you can easily turn the book into a lesson plan or create flashcards from it."- J.L. Hopper (J.L. Hopper's Review)
6."...the example sentences and the exercise that follows contain really simple and relatable usage of the idioms. The sentences are easy enough to be practiced in everyday life." - intotheworldofbooks (intotheworldofbooks' review)