Questions tagged [phrasebooks]

Books providing travellers with information on a language

Books which provide information on a language to travellers.

They typically contain phrases which are useful for travellers, a two way dictionary, the relevant alphabet, and a very basic overview of grammar.

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Portuguese phrasebook using IPA

I'm looking for a European Portuguese phrasebook that uses IPA. A major problem with most phrasebooks is that they attempt to describe pronunciation with some pseudo-phonetical approximation in a different language. This is particularly disastrous…

asked Apr 09 '18 at 20:37

gerrit

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Why is the Lonely Planet Mongolian phrasebook so small?

Lonely Planet's Mongolian Phrasebook & Dictionary has only 212 pages, while Japanese has 272 pages, and Chinese has 256 pages. Also, the Mongolian phrasebook does not have some sections that other phrasebooks have. (In fairness, the phrasebook also…

mongolian-language phrasebooks

asked May 09 '15 at 04:21

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