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Speak Spanish Like a Native
Speak Spanish Like a Native is a three-book series covering the Spanish that textbooks pretend doesn’t exist: the pronunciation and word stress that make you sound native, the social Spanish of drinks, dating and expertly-judged swearing, and the daily-life language of flats, landlords and doctors — plus a bonus chapter on Argentine Spanish. Written by a British expat who learned it the hard way.
High-resolution cover art is in the downloads below. Buy links: the box set on Amazon · Amazon author page · all editions
Five phrases from the books
The literal translation is the joke.
- Vete a freír espárragos“Go and fry asparagus.”
- The politest way in Spanish to tell someone where to go.
- Hacer la cobra“To do the cobra.”
- Dodging an unwanted kiss with a snake-like sway of the head. There is no English word for this. There should be.
- Estar de toma pan y moja“To be “take bread and dip”.”
- So attractive you’d mop them up with bread, like a good sauce.
- Más pedo que Alfredo“Drunker than Alfredo.”
- Nobody knows who Alfredo is. It rhymes, and that’s enough.
- Te como con patatas“I’ll eat you with chips.”
- Peak Spanish flirtation: affection expressed via side dish.
About the author
T.B. Pearson is a British author who has spent more than a decade living his Spanish rather than studying it. A balance disorder left him unable to read or work — but able to listen; Spanish podcasts filled the silence, and in 2014 he moved to Madrid to put the hours in. Seven years in Madrid and Barcelona, an Argentinian wife and her wonderfully talkative family later, the series is his notebooks, distilled. He lives in Asturias, in northern Spain, with his wife and twins.
He is available for interview in person in northern Spain or by video anywhere, in English or Spanish.
Review copies
Journalists, bloggers, podcasters and teachers: review copies are available in EPUB, PDF or paperback, sent same day on request — no strings, an honest look is all we ask.
Press contact: hola@speaklikenatives.com
