Middle East: Lonely Planet Phrasebook

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
• Published by: Lonely Planet
• Edition: 1st Edition September 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1864502614
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1864502619
• Book Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.7 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 5 ounces

Product Review
"Lonely Planet Phrasebooks. Portable, pocket-size, cheap, and available for almost any country you might want to visit"
-- National Geographic Traveler, September 2006

"Lonely Planet phrase books have long taken a hip, streetwise approach."
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 27, 2004

National Geographic Traveler, September 2006
'Lonely Planet Phrasebooks. Portable, pocket-size, cheap, and available for almost any country you might want to visit'


Product Description
The Middle East beckons you. With 8 key languages in this first ever phrasebook to the region, let no barriers - language or culture - get in your way. Find your way to the qahwa (cofee house) for a sheesha (water pipe), and have a chat with some of the world's most hospitable people. Immerse yourself in the culture section packed with fascinating and useful info on this unique region.

Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.


Reader Reviews
When I tried to use this phrasebook, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The very first entry for each of the five Arabic dialects is, "Do you speak English?" What?!? If a person who speaks no Arabic, like me, wants to converse with a native Arabic speaker, s/he should ask, "Do you speak English?" IN ENGLISH! Believe me, you will know the answer from the person's facial response. I certainly don't need to pose the question in a language that I am wholly unable to converse in, that's for sure. The very notion is absurd. Want more laughs? This book is full of them. How about the most useful words to learn in any foreign language: thank you. You can look high and low and you won't find it in this purported phrasebook. Likewise, you will not easily find "Excuse me", "Please", "Hello", or "Goodbye", some of the other most important words you can learn. You will, however, find such useful expressions as "Can you write down the price?" (I'm sure that for one or two persons, the need for that phrase must come up all the time.) Save your money. You don't want this book.