101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Learn the Slang, Soul, & Style of Mexican Spanish (Spanish Edition) Paperback – July 8, 2020

I enjoyed this book. It is an interesting story. It improved my Spanish vocabulary and I was able to understand everyday Spanish expressions and idioms.

I read this book as I listened to the audiobook. At first it was a little difficult; however, as the conversations went on, my ears became accustomed to the verb repetition and by the time I got to conversation 70, I rarely had to listen to the same conversation twice. This reinforces the reason for reading and I can’t wait to get my hands (and ears) on more reading material. Thanks Ollie!

I really enjoyed this book as a supplement to my other studies. I did indeed find that I understood the story the first go round, and then would read each chapter again to examine the structure of what was said. My only quibble was that a lot of the translated vocab or phrases were certainly not the most difficult in the section, so I found myself already knowing the translated bits, but having to look up some of the other phrases in a section. But all in all, worthwhile.

I have been studying Spanish for a while with various resources. I am just finishing up the Rocket Languages Spanish course. Currently I subscribe to Lingquistica 360's news service app. I throughly enjoy reading the news in Spanish every morning. It gives word and phrases that you will not come across in most courses. The app highlights some vocabulary in red, which, when touched, give an English translation. I enjoy the app but it is work. In contrast Olly Richard's book was pure fun. The vocabulary fit like a glove. I knew or was fimiliar with most of the words. I could figure out most of what I was unfamilar with. This made the reading go very quickly, which provide a feel for how the language is actually spoken. Time and time again I founds myself thinking, "Oh, that's how you would say that." Words like quedar and llevar, which have multiple meaning and uses, were more comprehensible when experienced in real conversation. I could not resist reading the story aloud, acting out the emotions. We all learned our mother tongue in conversation. Olly's book provides a similar experience. I cannot recommend it enough.

Great book. the conversations are easy to read, not too long, and the vocabulary section at the end of each chapter is helpful.

The story is really good, about Tavo who works with his friends and their having to deal with work stuff and some new douche bag hired by nepotism, and Tavo also helps his parents a lot. The conversations in Spanish are easy to follow and have short vocabulary lists after each conversation. The vocab list doesn't show every single word or phrase but most of them. Not all of it makes sense so I feel like I do use Google Translate more than Olly the Polyglot thinks you should be, but after I read it once without looking anything up, I read the vocab list and translate some things, then read it again, and I can follow the conversation in my head in English and I read it in Spanish. Highly recommend this one.

I'm only on the 6th short story but am really enjoying this and think I'm learning a lot about colloquial spoken Spanish.One thing to note, if you look on Amazon/Audible, there are professionally recorded versions of the dialogues at a very reasonable price. The day I bought it the audio book version was under $5. Well worth it, imo.What I'm doing is kind of following their suggested method of reading.1: read straight through2: looking at the glossary of new words at the end of each chapter3: listening to the audio on the audio book4: read through a second time along with the audio book5: listen to the audio again to gauge how much I can hear already knowing the dialogue and contexts6: move on to the next chapter.For a combined $10 for the Kindle version and audiobook, I think it's a great deal and wish I'd stumbled on this sooner.

I'm in the Fluent in 3 Months Challenge (Benny Lewis), and because of Olly's polyglot 8 week bootcamp held early spring 2020, I've transformed into a Spanish speaker. Sure, I have lots to learn, but my mind just popped right into all I need to be for taking my skills as far as I wish. During the bootcamp I remember asking for scripted dialogues for people to read together, and here it is! I read all of the beginning material (as everyone should for this book) and then followed all of Olly's suggestions for reading to learn. A friend and I took parts and read it through out loud. At the end of the stories you'll be given the words that are potentially new vocabulary, then you re-read. Incredible how much information I acquired in such a brief, painless "assignment" done with a friend on Zoom. Grab your copy and find your language learning friends for an easy study that can be done in short increments of time. Read alone, aloud, over and over, record yourself, choose your favorite character! It put a smile on my face to see that my baby niece shared the same name as one of the characters. Thanks for all of the good times past and yet to come, Olly!