Pidgin Phrasebook is a guide to the pidgins and creoles of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and the Torres Strait. Get your tongue around these tasty blends and understand the intriguing evolution of these languages.
Lonely Planet's Europe Phrasebook & Language guide is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with relevant travel phrases and vocabulary. Organized by language, this pocket-sized, comprehensive multi-language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance for all levels.
Lonely Planet's China Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.
Farsi the language of Iran (formerly Persia) and is also widely spoken in Afghanistan and, in an archaic form, in Tajikistan and the Pamir Mountain region.
Get more from your trip with easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation. Over one billion people speaking in 22 official languages - it'd be easy to mistake your Kashmiri from your Konkani, but not with this little beauty in your back pocket.
Get more from your trip with easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation. There are some significant differences between everyday spoken Nepali and the more formal written language. However, the information in this book is presented in the informal spoken style, which is all you’ll need.
Wherever you go throughout the East African region, you’ll find Swahili greatly useful and attempts to communicate with locals in the language will be greatly appreciated. This book gives you the practical phrases you need to get by, as well as the fun, spontaneous phrases that lead to a better understanding of East African people and their culture.
Up to 4 million people visit Mongolia annually and many of them are looking quizzically at menus or asking really loudly where the toilet is. But with this phrasebook you needn't be one of them. With this, you can be the urban sophisticate we know you are.
The official language of Laos is Lao as spoken and written in Vientiane. As an official language, it has successfully become the lingua franca between all Lao and non-Lao ethnic groups in Laos. Of course, native Lao is spoken with differing tonal accents and with slightly differing vocabularies as you move from one part of the country to the next, especially in a north to south direction. But it is the Vientiane dialect that is most widely understood.
The national language of Malaysia is a surprisingly easy language to wrap your tongue around. Words are largely pronounced phonetically - so dive in and leave that language barrier in the dust.
Grab this handy guide to the best of Bulgarian banter and not only will you be ordering theatre tickets like a seasoned local, you'll be glancing at that Cyrillic alphabet and nodding knowingly too.
