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Rick Steves' French, Italian, and German Phrase Book & Dictionary by: Rick Steves List Price: CDN$ 10.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 9.86 You Save: CDN$1.09 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 440 EAN: 9781566915342 ISBN: 1566915341 Label: AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING Manufacturer: AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: July 01, 2003 Publisher: AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING Studio: AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING Sales Rank: 1204 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: If you're planning your Continental tour, or just heading Europewards and letting the winds of fate waft you this way and that, you'll want some language assistance, preferably in a form that doesn't require an extra set of luggage. Rick Steves, noted Europe expert and writer of candid, accurate, and entertaining guide books, has a phrase book and dictionary that contains the three major languages you're likely to encounter in ramble around Europe or a trek in the Alps. For each of the three languages, there are chapters on basic survival phrases, numbers, money, and time, transportation, sleeping, and eating, plus activities such as sightseeing, shopping, and nightlife. There are also sections on phoning and mailing, health and emergencies, and making small talk--including the essential section on animal noises (because what's woof woof to you is ouah ouah to the French, bau bau to Italians, and wuff wuff in German). There are also lists of the animal noises made by humans (also known as profanity) so you can enjoy the linguistic color as the man next to you drops his fragile souvenir, or swear like a Roman when you stub your toe in the Coliseum. The menu decoders are quite useful, and, despite the book's small size, it covers most contingencies--from bartering over hotel-room prices to rental-car considerations, interpreting train schedules to discussing medical conditions such as constipation and diarrhea, hemorrhoids and indigestion, body odor and the giggles. The dictionary in the back shows the English, French, Italian, and German for each of 1,200 words, and there's an appendix of useful information, including the European phone numbers for various calling-card operators as well as their international access codes and country codes, a chart of monthly temperatures for each country and a metric conversion table, as well as tongue twisters in French, German, and Italian, to while away the train-travel hours and impress your compartment mates with your willingness to launch into their language and dare to sound like a fool. --Stephanie Gold Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Tres BienThis is a great little book, containing a ton of useful phrases in a handy package that can easily fit into any backpack. I heavily relied upon it during a 10-day trip through France, helping me to enjoy unforgettable conversations with figures as diverse as fellow university students, working-class townspeople, and elderly poets/radio hosts. I recommend that you try to memorize many of the phrases beforehand though, as a little effort on your part will be much appreciated by the locals and will save you the mild embarrassment of thumbing through the book in the middle of a conversation. We may be tourists, but that doesn't mean we have to stick out like them. Bon Voyage! Rating: - This book was a wonderful!I traveled to Germany and Paris recently and this book was great! I used it in Paris, along with Rick Steves' Paris 2004 Guide and they were invaluable. I highly recommend traveling with these two books if you're going to Paris. The Germany section helped me not to stumble through requests in Germany on many occasions, also. I will always travel with Rick Steves' books in the future! Rating: - It was my best friend in EuropeRick Steves' phrasebook was my best friend during a recent three- month tour of Europe. This book is perfectly written for the budget traveler with clear pronounciations and slices of Rick Steves' humor that his readers have come to love. The book even includes a bit of a "script" for reserving a hotel room over the phone by including the exact phrases in the logical order. Thanks to the book, I was able to eat well in Nice, sleep cheap in Provence, chase the casanovas away in Florence and much more. Overall, this book is probably not essential for those who are only traveling in major cities where travelers are apt to find plenty of English spoken. However, this book is a bible in small towns where no English is spoken. In addition, ... Read More: Rating: - The best phrase bookEasy to find what you are looking for. Has all of the truly importaint words and phrases. I think that the food translations were used the most, by me and anyone else that figured out I had this book. You really do not need a phrase book if you are traveling from big city to big city, but if you find yourself in a small village or town, this book will be very handy. If you want a phrase book, this is the one. Next time I take off over seas, this book will make its way into my backpack. Rating: - Very HelpfulThis book was great for deciphering menus and other printed material. On my trip to France and Italy I didn't really have much trouble getting by with English, so the book really only came in handy when translating written stuff. Unfortunately Rick leaves out the curse words that are in his other language books. |
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