101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Learn the Slang, Soul, & Style of Mexican Spanish (Spanish Edition)

A great story and so helpful with getting the rhythm of conversational spanish. Great to read silently, aloud, and with the help of the audiobook. An excellent resource for the high beginner/intermediate learner. Especially if you like to read.

I have been studying Spanish for a while with various resources. I am just finishing up the Rocket Languages Spanish course. Currently I subscribe to Lingquistica 360's news service app. I throughly enjoy reading the news in Spanish every morning. It gives word and phrases that you will not come across in most courses. The app highlights some vocabulary in red, which, when touched, give an English translation. I enjoy the app but it is work. In contrast Olly Richard's book was pure fun. The vocabulary fit like a glove. I knew or was fimiliar with most of the words. I could figure out most of what I was unfamilar with. This made the reading go very quickly, which provide a feel for how the language is actually spoken. Time and time again I founds myself thinking, "Oh, that's how you would say that." Words like quedar and llevar, which have multiple meaning and uses, were more comprehensible when experienced in real conversation. I could not resist reading the story aloud, acting out the emotions. We all learned our mother tongue in conversation. Olly's book provides a similar experience. I cannot recommend it enough.

The story is really good, about Tavo who works with his friends and their having to deal with work stuff and some new douche bag hired by nepotism, and Tavo also helps his parents a lot. The conversations in Spanish are easy to follow and have short vocabulary lists after each conversation. The vocab list doesn't show every single word or phrase but most of them. Not all of it makes sense so I feel like I do use Google Translate more than Olly the Polyglot thinks you should be, but after I read it once without looking anything up, I read the vocab list and translate some things, then read it again, and I can follow the conversation in my head in English and I read it in Spanish. Highly recommend this one.

Olly's approach is to encourage students to access a breadth of materials instead of going super deep in any one area. The result is that you expose yourself to more materials and have more fun in the process. It is a good reminder to me and helps keep my language learning journey fresh and fun. Conversations in Mexican Spanish is another great addition to Olly's "Conversations" series. Highly recommend.

This short book is presented in an excellent digital format, which is often not the case for e-books. The chapters are brief (2-4 pages each with an enlarged font) which is perfect for the teaching method advocated by the author, Olly Richards, a rather well-known polyglot who has mastered at least 8 different languages, having begun with this one, Spanish. The content is exactly as promised, very accessible (comprehensible as he puts it) for a B1-2 Spanish learner. Using the author's recommended approach, one can easily read and re-read each chapter multiple times in one sitting.If there is any criticism of the book from me, it would be that the chosen vocabularia translations at the end of each chapter are often the most obvious, often cognates, for which no translation is necessary. I highly recommend this book, extremely inexpensive in the digital form, to any B1-2 level student of Spanish, not just those interested in Mexican Spanish.

I'm only on the 6th short story but am really enjoying this and think I'm learning a lot about colloquial spoken Spanish.One thing to note, if you look on Amazon/Audible, there are professionally recorded versions of the dialogues at a very reasonable price. The day I bought it the audio book version was under $5. Well worth it, imo.What I'm doing is kind of following their suggested method of reading.1: read straight through2: looking at the glossary of new words at the end of each chapter3: listening to the audio on the audio book4: read through a second time along with the audio book5: listen to the audio again to gauge how much I can hear already knowing the dialogue and contexts6: move on to the next chapter.For a combined $10 for the Kindle version and audiobook, I think it's a great deal and wish I'd stumbled on this sooner.

I have the 101 Conversation Series in Spanish, Italian and French. This is another superb addition to the Spanish branch of the series. For any language basic grammar needs to be learned, but it is dry and only serves as a background for conversation and understanding. Most people speak less formally than they write and in some languages like French one almost has to learn two separate languages. So many times conversation has "fillers," idioms, or phrases that don't appear in textbooks and until one learns them one has trouble following a conversation or even following all but the most formal writing. This book, like the others in the series, shows you how it all fits together and allows you to communicate with people and understand how language is used in the context of telling a story or simply getting or relaying information in everyday situations. And, while Spanish is an international language, it has its regional variances and idioms as anyone from Spain (or speaking Castilian Spanish) who has used the word coger to mean take in Mexico quickly learns. Mexican Spanish serves as a reminder that there are differences between Castilian and Mexican (and South American) Spanish. And it does it all in a fun way!

Für jemanden der Spanisch spricht/lernt und sich auf Mexiko vorbereiten möchte ist das Buch gut und unterhaltsam. Klare Kaufempfehlung.

¡Está buenísimo! Yo doy clases de español y me ha encantado este libro. Cada capítulo tiene tamaño perfecto para una lección, además de que en verdad tiene expresiones mexicanas.Hay pocos libros de enseñanza del idioma del español mexicano. Este es muy accesible y útil.

My wife found Olly's courses on line. She bought the Spanish program and we've been studying it together the past 3 months. I bought us this book of 101 conversations in Mexican Spanish as we are fans of Mexico and have vacationed there the past 3 years. What a thrill to read and feel like we can get the gist of the story. This year we've tried various methods and Olly's is by far the most natural and engaging. The story is entertaining and allows for simple conversations. We have a Mexican Spanish tutor and when we review parts of this book, she agrees that the slang and soul of Mexico is embodied here. We highly recommend his method, his books, and love immersing in the language. We read aloud to each and look forward to hearing it on audio as we do listen to the book we study in his course.

I bought this on the strength of Olly's "Short Stories in Spanish" that I've used. These stories and conversations are such an organic way of learning and I feel this Mexican Spanish book has given me an altogether broader dimension to my Spanish language learning. Olly provides an overview of the setting and description of the characters to orientate the reader so that you can just get going and immerse yourself in the language - and this way it sticks!

This is a great resource for learning Spanish for a beginner/intermediate level learner. Not textbook learning but actual conversations that you can follow. I found the story realistic and interesting so that you wanted to keep going. There are handy vocabulary lists at the end of each chapter covering colloquial expressions that you just can't look up in a dictionary.