Although I'm glad I read other reviews about the use of the formal you instead of familiar that is addressed in the book, overall, I am much more pleased with the layout and content of the this compact travel book than some of the reviews had led me to believe.
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I took a copy of this book on our family vacation to Costa Rica over winter break and it got passed along to all family members ages 10 - 75! Everyone got something from the book and my sister purchased another copy while we in Costa Rica. The small size was handy, very light weight and the contents are organized logically.
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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...
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I am the author of this phrasebook and would like to respond to recent criticisms on the content of the book. Please excuse my star rating of my own text, but ... will not let you post a review without a rating. I would like to make 3 basic points.1. This is a phrasebook for travellers, it is not the official Costa Rican Colloquial Dictionary, nor a list of idiomatic expressions. It was written to help travellers to conduct...
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As a Costa Rican living in the US, I often think of my beautiful home country. This book, by Thomas Kohnstamm, brought back many memories of home and brought a smile to my face. It is accurate and contains many quirks of Tico culture and language that I had started to forget about. I especially like it because it is respectful of our culture and appreciates our land and people. It does not treat Costa Rica just as...
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