Pardon My Spanglish: One Man’s Guide to Speaking the Habla

In Pardon My Spanglish, stand-up comedian Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American alegrias of his mother tongue: the quirky, hilariously improvisational fusion of ingles and espanol spoken by millions (even if they don’t know or admit que estan doing it). With crash-course efficiency, cada pagina de este libro empowers your every step toward Spanglish mastery. How can you not love Spanglish? Twice the vocabulary, half the grammar!
Readers will learn:
- The outlaw syntax of Spanglish (as observed by a comedian with no formal training in linguistics whatsoever)
- Advanced tricks of Spanglish conjugation ( to google Yo googleo, tu googleas, nosotros googleamos)
- The Top 10 Best Things About Being Latino (#6: Guaranteed part in high school production of West Side Story )
- Why People en Espanol should simply be called Gente
- Handy corporate Spanglish phrases, including Feliz hump day
- The secret Spanglish agenda of Dora the Explorer
- And mucho mas!
Full of dead-on observations about immigration paniqueo, oprima el dos backlash, and every politically incorrect sentiment in between, Pardon My Spanglish is essential reading for Latinos–and the Latino-curious.