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Pros
The story is fun and interesting with some colourful characters. The author has an ironic sense of humour. The plot is all too believable and quite funny.
Juan shows his long experience of teaching spanish by the way he so skillfully uses vocabulary and colloquialisms. He repeats words in a variety of contexts to aid guessing of meanings, which is satisfying for the learner. He also puts the really diff... Read More
This is the 3rd book i have read by the author. Cannot fault these books. This book is excellent.
Juan fernández. Creo que ella fue a una entrevista. Use his books along with his youtube videos ‘español con juan’ and his website “1001 reasons to learn spanish “.
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I have bought four of this authors books and am finding them incredibly helpful
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He uses simple words to tell this storybut not for a second do you get the impression as if you are reading a book for kindergarten kids
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I tried learning spanish using duolingo and busuu when lock down started
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The story isn’t the children’s story i was expecting
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They were tedious to read because they required a lot of translation due to the strange themes
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I found this series by juan fernández to be much more fun to read
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I am a third of a way through my second year of spanish lessons which will see me attain a2 level and overall i think this book was not quite as challenging as i wanted it to be
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While it was very satisfying to be able to read very quickly and grasp the concept i understood about 90 of the content so i didn’t pick up that many new wordsphrases
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I would have liked a few more words included in the vocabulary section and perhaps a bit more explanation such as showing verbs in the infinitive rather than just translating the phrase used in the story