Well, well. According to Ballotpedia, Sr. Dondero’s Spanish may be legit.

Dondero is a certified Spanish interpreter and fluent in Italian, French and Portuguese. He is the author of “Worldwide Multilingual Phrase Book” and “Vacation Spanish.”

The second book he co-authored with someone named Hurtado, so it wasn’t a solo effort.

I read the intro at amazon.com’s Look Inside. it says Dondero has “mastered” 20 languages and has functional use of 20 more. After several years of studying Spanish, he finally spent three months teaching English in Tampico and it pushed him into complete fluency.

I catch a strong whiff of self-promotion here.