Speaking Boricua is a humorous guide to Puerto Rican Spanish. With over 1,500 Puerto Rican words and phrases, you will quickly understand Puerto Rican slang. Cartoon photos illustrate many of the words and phrases in an entertaining way. By using a few of these words your Puerto Rican friends will be laughing hysterically.
Words such as tripear, un quita'o, bregar, coraje, serrucho, mahón, cafre, palo, zafacón, china, fumón and mofongo will quickly become part of your everyday Puerto Rican vocabulary. Do you already speak Spanish? Well these words mean something completely different in Puerto Rico!!
The book also includes pronunciation and grammar sections that teach you how to speak and understand Puerto Rican. Symbols let you know when a word is naughty, similar to English, or commonly used.
This book is the most in-depth, up-to-date source of Puerto Rican Spanish available.
NOTE: This is a Bilingual Book (English and Spanish) and contains words
that are not appropriate for kids. For the beginning Spanish student,
Speaking Boricua is best used as a complementary learning tool to any
program or class designed to teach you Spanish. This book and the other
books of the Speaking Latino series are not designed as stand-a-alone
learning aids, to teach you Spanish.