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This informal yet effective book-and-tape approach to a working knowledge of spoken Spanish is specifically designed for English-speaking police whose duties take them into Hispanic communities. The program is also intended to help public safety workers, correction officers, firefighters, and other public servants. William Harvey's book, published several seasons ago, has now been augmented and improved with the addition of two audiocassettes to help learners master the pronunciation and inflections of Spanish as it is spoken in American Hispanic communities. Spanish for Law Enforcement Personnel may also be purchased as in the past in its book-only version.
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Decent book...........2005-07-05
I disagree with many of the harsher reviews. I am a police officer , not a medical student or lawyer and this is a pretty decent book. Just realize what you're getting. It's a book for an officer to learn basic commands. It will also teach you how to get the general idea of a call until you can get a real translator on scene. No, you are not going to become conversational with this book. But you will be able to learn the commands that will keep you, suspects and bystanders safe. That's the main focus of the book: commands. The others are right, it barely mentions verb conjugation (one of the most important parts of the language.) But! (big "but" here) That's not the intent of the book. For the average patrolman, it's a wealth of knowledge. It's a starting point with things you can use RIGHT NOW. To become conversational, you are going to have to continue your education. I also wouldn't interrogate a suspect with just knowlege from this book. Think: Officer saftey, traffic stops, DUI's, Domestics and report calls. That's the jist of this book. I recommend it.
Horrible book.......2004-07-21
I agree with Mr. Picapiedra statments: stay away from this book, it'll make you sound stupid.
Now I'm really worried about the justice system in the States as a former reviewer, David Levine says: "I am beginning to break into conversations, in Spanish, between clients and the court appointed interpreter. I am developing the ability to explain to my clients (albeit simplistically) what is going on in court"
MY GOD !!! I really pity Mr. Levine's clients.
In a later review Mr. Davidson states he is a Police Officer, and says the book is very good. On the other hand he admits he can't speak spanish.
Well, I'm not a police officer, BUT (big *but* here Mr Davidson) spanish is my native language. The book is horrible becouse it has gross *errors*.
It's a good idea to write a manual for police officers, but it's a *bad* idea to have errors in it.
Good for some beginners, but..........2003-07-28
I work in law enforcement and have a BA in Spanish. Some people will find this to be a very useful book, but I found it to be too much of what I already know (general-purpose vocabulary and phrases) and not enough of what I don't (more advanced unique terms and expressions an officer would use at work).
Be advised that this book is NOT designed to teach Spanish grammar to the complete newcomer. It does not even discuss grammar, so if you have never studied Spanish, you'll need to look elsewhere first to learn to conjugate verbs, etc. This book has many examples of useful phrases, but it also contains many long vocabulary lists which--for the beginner--offer little to no guidance on how to use them in a gramatically-correct sentence.
I found this book to be a bit too broad in it's approach to teaching Spanish for a specific field of interest ("law enforcement"). I would have preferred it if the author would have assumed that the reader already had a functional vocabulary and was just looking for the unique terms and expressions used in police work. As it is, you have to sift through a lot of general-purpose vocabulary and phrases to get to the meat--the unique terms and expressions you need as a cop but wouldn't have learned in Spanish 101, or even Spanish 301. If you're a beginning student of Spanish and already know the basics of grammar, you may appreciate the lists of basic words and phrases.
Where the book does cover a topic of importance to me, I found it did not go into enough detail. For example, there is a section on DUI's, but the phrases it offers are only of a very general nature and do not convey all of the instructions an officer would need to process a DUI. With all due respect to the author, it is apparent from what is missing from this book that he does not work in law enforcement and lacks an indepth understanding of the type of information that a police officer would want to convey and obtain. Phrases like, "You're in violation of a no-contact order," or, "If you don't go to court, the judge will issue a warrant for your arrest," should be included in a 410 page book for law enforcement but I can't find any indication here how to convey those ideas.
Much of my work with Spanish-speaking individuals involves gangs, but this book never directly addresses gangs and the associated terms that go with them ("brincar" means "to jump in," for example). Also, there is no mention of Spanish slang or swear words in this book. Slang is a subject in itself, but every Spanish book for law enforcement should contain at least a list of slang terms that relate to officer-safety ("cuete" means "gun," for example).
This book could also benefit from a good index since the table of contents is extremely basic. Finding info on a particular topic takes some searching.
In fairness to the author, I must address a previous reviewer's implication that the book uses nonstandard Spanish. On page 210 under "The Raid" it correctly lists "This is the police" as "Somos la policia," and on page 8 under "What's your name?" it says that the proper way to answer someone asking your name is to say, "Soy..." for "I'm..." However, the book's cover does indeed contain the error the reviewer mentioned.
Despite the above citicisms, this book is certainly not without its merits. Every single Spanish word has an accompanying phonetic spelling as a pronunciation guide, which beginners may find very helpful. And although the treatment of some subjects is more superficial than I would have liked, a broad range of subjects are discussed. If you knew everything in this book, you would at least be able to get by in most law-enforcement situations. But if you're looking for something with a more complete listing of advanced terms and phrases (more "meat"), a much better alternative is Living Language's Essential Spanish for Law Enforcement.
Not recommended..........2002-11-17
I am a bilingual speaker, with my degree in Spanish language & hispanic culture (Dartmouth College 1984), and teach both. First, this book DOES have a lot of words and phrases that could be useful, but you need to be close to native level ability to "sift out" those. In fact, the book presents itself as a "non-stressful" way to learn Spanish, and the introduction "talks down" the need to do repetition, drill, or memorization. Almost comically, within the first 100 pages, the reader is presented with over 1500 words, and hundreds of phrases (some of which are wrong). The real downside, from a teaching/learning standpoint, is that there is very little structure or foundation presented to help you remember any of this - looks like "memorization hell" to me. It would be more frustrating than funny for a novice. [Note that the book makes an attempt to provide more structure much later in the book, but I found the presentation to be substandard - its organization really needs to be reworked.] The fact that the book is so poorly organized for teaching (either self-teaching or as a teacher) makes it largely unusable in many contexts. As a person with a native level ability, I found some of the words and phrases useful (i.e. using the book as a reference), but as a previous reviewer points out, even these may not be reliable, given the numerous mistakes which make me smile as I went through the info. I would recommend rather that beginners (law personnel) buy or find a basics-of-spanish book/course, followed by purchasing a simple and focused phrasebook specifically for law enforcement personnel. The author's credentials seem impressive, and I'd love to see him and some native speakers do a serious rework of this material, since it does have the seeds of a useful text.
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK.......2002-09-18
I'm spanish, and I tell you I hope I could give 0 stars. I don't know how this guy was allowed to write this book without knowing spanish. Just look at the cover, you can read "Esta es la policia" meaning "this is the police", well, a spanish speaking person would NEVER say that. Correct form: "Somos la policia" or even if questioned who it is "¿Quien es?" you should just say "La policia". Same thing applies when making a phone call, we NEVER say "Esto es Pedro, quisiera hablar con Maria", instead we say "Soy pedro, quisiera hablar con María" --> Translated (This is Pedro, may I talk to Maria). Inside the book, things are even worse. If you use this book you will sound quite stupid to a spanish speaking audience, avoid it.
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The only Spanish-language book and audio guide for those who risk their lives daily to save lives
As a firefighter, paramedic, or EMT you know that when every second counts clear communication can make the difference between life and death. That's why in an America where one in five citizens speaks Spanish, it is critical for every emergency responder have basic Spanish-language skills.
Quick Spanish for Emergency Responders, CD Edition, arms you with all the essential Spanish words and phrases you need to do your job. More important, it gives them to you in the context of dozens of real-life situations you're likely to encounter, from structure fires to auto accidents to heart attacks to poison control.
A Spanish-language guide for true American heroes, Quick Spanish for Emergency Responders, CD Edition, delivers:
- More than 2,000 words and phrases in a concise, easy-to-navigate phrasebook format
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- Useful information on Latino culture, survival tips, and street Spanish
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Quick and Easy!.......2006-06-07
For those involved with providing emergency services in a bi-lingual culture this is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to communicate with Hispanic people.
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Spanish for Public Safety Personnel
James Nocito , and
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Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is a one-book, one-audio tape set designed as a reference for public safety personnel. This small, laminated booklet lists commonly-used phrases and their phonetic pronunciations for quick reference in the field. This useful tool will help public safety personnel improve communications and protect themselves and others. The accompanying audio tape reviews listening and pronunciation skills.
Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is designed to provide security and law enforcement professionals with the necessary tools to help improve communication with and partnerships between the police and the community. It provides hundreds of vocabulary words used in the most common security-related situations.
Arthur M. McCarthy has been a police officer in Boston for the past twenty-two years. He taught for five years at the Boston Police Academy and has taught Spanish and Community Policing at the university level.
James A. Nocito has been a teacher of Spanish for thirteen years, at both the university and high school levels. Jim holds an MS in Criminal Justice, and in 1994 he was selected into Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
Unique approach to acquiring a second language
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Great Spanish Teacher.......2006-07-06
Mr. Nocito was my first Spanish teacher way back in 1989. He is definitely the best language teacher I ever had. A couple of years after leaving his class, I was able to pass for a native born Spanish person in Spain. You can't go wrong with Mr. Nocito.
Extremely useful resource........2003-10-30
This book is an extremely useful crash course in spanish. I work with abused women and have found this to be a vital tool when handling crisis situations when there isn't a bilingual counselor available. It was intended for use with public safety personnel but it would be helpful in any walk of life where you may come into contact with a spanish speaking person.
The book is well laid out and easy to reference. Even if you don't memorize the book (which I didn't) it is easy to quickly reference what you need immediately. I haven't seen another book like it anywhere! It could save your life...literally.
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Each On Target program consists of a miniature Spanish-English phrasebook that accompanies an audio compact disc. This particular program is focused to help police officers and other law enforcement personnel communicate effectively with Spanish-speaking customers. All On Target programs are handsomely packaged and targeted to meet the needs of professionals in many different fields who must communicate regularly with Latinos having little or no command of English. Each phrasebook presents English and Spanish words and phrases categorized according to the various topics that pertain to the target profession—questions and information that the reader is most likely to ask or provide. The CDs cover word for word all of the text presented the phrasebooks. Thus, they offer guidance in pronunciation and listening comprehension.
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This book, with its three audio compact discs, was designed to help English-speaking police officers, court officers, public safety workers, parole officers, and other law-related personnel who work among Hispanics but who have little or no command of spoken Spanish. It will also prove helpful to firefighters, and social workers whose duties take them into Spanish-speaking communities. Rather than concentrating on rules of grammar and memorization of verb forms and other such details, the author concentrates on useful vocabulary and phrases for making oneself understood in Spanish, and for understanding others when dealing with accidents and accident reports, crime investigations, public gatherings, court and legal procedures, and other aspects of law enforcement and public safety. Both the book and its optional compact disc present dialogues that simulate such scenes. The CDs (which replace cassette tapes that were available with the first edition) also offer help in pronunciation and listening comprehension to non-Spanish speakers.
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El Ultimo Mohicano / the Last of the Mohicans
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La triste historia de una raza ya condenada a la extinción ha atraído a muchas generaciones de lectores. Los caracteres de OJo de Halcón, el el experimentado explorador americano, y Uncas, su fiel amigo indio, el último jefe de los Mohicanos, están hermosamente descritos. Los dos hombres sobreviven a un sitio y a una masacre india y parten con un joven Mayor inglés en una emocionante expedición entre los bosques. Están buscando dos jóvenes inglesas raptadas por uno de los jefes indios que luchaban en le lado francés...
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At the centre of the novel is the celebrated 'Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohican Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout.
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The Noble Savage.......2007-09-28
"The Last of the Mohicans" is a novel for the ages and its hero Hawkeye is a man who teaches life lessons with each page you turn. Many people believe that this novel has outlived its worthiness but once turn of the pages will reveal to the reader a world that is both savage and young, characters that are both civilized and savage, and a story that harkens back to the beginnings of the new world. Cooper's language is hard to swallow sometimes, and the movie is easier to watch, but the reader who settles into the pages of Hawkeye's life and world is rewarded with lessons about friendship, love, survival and the rite of passage that all people go through. It is a definite must read for both English and History classes as it explores the beginnings of this great country in which we live.
"We Were Here".......2007-07-19
Since there are already over 100 reviews of this book and probably thousands have been written over the years, I'll do this one without benefit of book in hand, from memory and without a lot of details. It took me many years to get over the antiquated language barrier and to finally read the book. The classics are always harder to read than contemporary fiction, but sometimes it's worth the effort.
What tipped the scales for me and piqued my curiosity was watching the recent movie with Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, and Eric Schweig, and realizing that this was a good story. Also, I'm very familiar with the setting in upstate NY: Lake George, Balston Spa, Glenns Falls, Scroon Lake, and surrounding area--at least as it is now, and it was fun imagining what it would have been like in those days, when the land was virgin, settlers could lose their scalps if they weren't careful, and the France contested with Britain for supremacy of the land.
The book wasn't a romance--at least not in the modern sense of the word--with love scenes and the like. But it was a romance in the old sense in that the three main characters; Hawk-eye, and the two Mohicans, were larger than life heroes; in the moral, physical, and spiritual meanings of the term. The elder sister Cora was also a well developed, strong willed and heroic character, which surprised me a little considering the age in which the book was written.
For me the most interesting character of the novel was Chingachgook's son, Uncas, who was the "last of the Mohicans," a noble race of American Indians, which formerly occupied the lands by the "salt lake," (i.e., the Atlantic Ocean), and were dispossessed and robbed of their lands and heritage by the original Dutch settlers and others. Uncas was a tracker extraordinaire, even better than the indomitable Hawk-eye in this respect. But he was young, inexperienced, and impetuous, which was eventually his undoing when he came up against the evil, and formidable Magua. But before he died, he was recognized as a king or great chief of his people, an heir apparent. So decreed the venerable Tamenund, a 100 year old patriarch and judge of the Delaware peoples, a related tribe to the Mohicans. This episode would have been difficult to write into an action movie, but it would have been great if it had been.
Another interesting character completely eliminated from both the 1934 and 1992 movies was David Gamut, a preacher psalmist, whose moral presence and as a comic relief, was an integral part of the novel.
All in all, this is still a book worth reading, if only to get a glimse of the way things were then and might be again.
the last of the mohicans.......2007-07-12
it is a very good book but the english that it is written in is different from the way we speak today. I enjoy the book and will recommend it to everyone looking for something that is good to read and to all children for their classes that require reading books.
Natty Bumppo: The American Tarzan.......2007-06-11
Nathanial Bumppo, otherwise known as Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, and Long Rifle, is without a doubt the quintessential American version of Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan. To be sure, Cooper's frontier character saw print long before Burrough's creation did in 1912. This in no way invalidates the creation of ERB, but it does give more literary impact to a wholly American character who appears in what can only be defined, if one is truthful, as wholly flawed novels.
The five novels which feature Bumppo were written by Cooper out of sequence. This doesn't necessarily impair the fictive underpinnings of the stories themselves, but it does give rise to certain elements which writhe like a murky thread throughout the main arc.
We will, as expected, consider the best known, at least as far as the general public goes, work of Cooper, that being "The Last of the Mohicans" and examine just what makes this novel tick, and why you should read it.
Cooper believed that Indian culture must needs be crushed by the Anglo Saxon wheels of religion and technology. He saw no other way around this inevitability. Though he wasn't himself racist by the definitions which we adhere to today, he did have certain beliefs of superiority of his own culture which "dark-skinned" individuals had to bow down to. "Mohicans", with its poignant idea that there will come a time the "last" of this noble race will pass from the ken of men (that is to say the ken of White Men), has through this very self-same literary device carved for itself a spot of prominence withing American literature.
Not everyone liked Cooper's work. He was always viewed much more favorably in Europe than by home-grown American authors. Mark Twain famously savaged Cooper's work and the savagery resonates even to this day. Yet, something about the novels, especially "Mohicans" endures. Perhaps it is the idea of a race of men passing, the thread of virgin forests and pure lakes, the savagery of life on the frontier, the fog of war, the blood-curdling violence. Whatever the reason for its longevity, and Twain notwithstanding, this book endures. Thank God.
As one might expect there is very little of this book that is recognizable in the 1992 film remake of the same name. In fact, the film stole much of the story line which was rewritten in the 1920 silent film. In the modern film Hawk-eye, at the height of his powers, is taciturn to a fault but still capable of a normal sexual relationship. In the novel Natty Bumppo is not only naive sexually, he won't shut up, period. He discourses on everything, even to the halt of the action being described around him. Leaning on his rifle he has no problem detailing, to exhaustion, his opinion on events around him.
Another big difference, aside from the often awkward descriptions, stereotypes of women and just plain ignorance of Native American ethnicities, is the fact a major character dies in the novel yet is allowed to survive in film. I suppose this would come as a shock to someone who saw the movie first, but there it is. Cooper has no problem dispatching that which, if allowed to live, would intercede in the future life of Hawk-eye. Natty Bumppo must remain pure. He must be allowed to view and accept nature as a powerful motivation than the love of another human being. It is his past, it is his destiny. He is akin to the figure of Greek tragedy in this way. He has a duty to perform and he will accomplish it, but he himself cannot lose the connection he has to the pristine land he loves and calls home.
I highly recommend this book, though the new reader must approach it with a few caveats and not a little caution. Cooper is simply not that great a writer. I am not the first to say that nor will I be the last. Many of the passages go on far too long and the long-winded philosophies of Bumppo grate. Nevertheless, there is power here, along with pathos, grandeur, and yes, love -- though it's love on Bumppo's, and Cooper's, own terms.
Despite its many flaws this is a major American novel by any definition. If you like adventure, and don't mind a little (okay, a lot) lagging, I think you will enjoy reading "The Last of the Mohicans."
Last of Mohicans.......2007-03-15
Very different from the movies, but very good in its own right
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