Spanish Word Games For Dummies »

Adam Cohen is associate editor of Puzzler Brain Trainer magazine. He had his first crossword published at the age of fifteen.

Leslie Frates has been teaching Spanish for over thirty years. Currently a lecturer at California State University, she has been a game and puzzle aficionada since childhood.

The fun and easy way to learn Spanish — by playing games!

Do you want to improve your Spanish? This fun, practical guide features more than 100 word games and puzzles, including crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, jumbles, and scrambles — each with a language-learning twist. As you play, you develop your Spanish vocabulary while you improve your language skills. It's that easy!

• Learning language through puzzles — find out how you can learn or brush up on Spanish by solving a variety of puzzles

• Sharpening your memory and your pencil — build brain capacity and make the most of what you're learning

• Taking the puzzlement out of puzzles — discover how to solve each of the puzzle types in the book

• Spicing up your life with puzzles — improve your language skills as you solve themed puzzles about work, home, school, culture, and much more

• Tricky stuff — find complex puzzles that use irregular verbs and tenses, present potential vocabulary pitfalls, and more

Open the book and find:

• More than 100 word games ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging

• Solutions for puzzles in the back of the book

• Tips on thinking outside the box with crosswords

• Cryptogram code-cracking techniques

• Sound advice on unscrambling word scrambles

• How to fill in the blanks of fill-ins

• Helpful how-to guidance on solving seek and finds

• Smart ways to easily absorb Spanish

Introduction.

Part I: Building Your Spanish Skills with Word Games.

Chapter 1: Mastering Spanish through Word Games and Puzzles.

Chapter 2: Taking the Puzzlement out of Puzzles.

Part II: The Puzzles.

Chapter 3: Everyday Words and Phrases.

Chapter 4: At Home.

Chapter 5: Village and Countryside.

Chapter 6: The Natural World.

Chapter 7: Travel.

Chapter 8: The Spanish World: Culture, Geography, and History.

Chapter 9: Tricky Stuff: Applications and Exceptions.

Part III: The Solutions.

Chapter 10: Solutions.

Part IV: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 11: Ten Challenger Puzzles.

Chapter 12: Ten Tools for Building Your Spanish Capabilities.