- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 3rd Revised edition edition (1 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1740591496
- ISBN-13: 978-1740591492
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 9.6 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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- #1 in Books > Languages > By Language > Other Asian Languages > Urdu > Learning Materials
- #1 in Books > Languages > By Language > Other Asian Languages > Bengali > Learning Materials
- #6 in Books > Languages > Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks > Bengali
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National Geographic Traveler, September 2006
'Lonely Planet Phrasebooks. Portable, pocket-size, cheap, and available for almost any country you might want to visit...'
'Lonely Planet Phrasebooks. Portable, pocket-size, cheap, and available for almost any country you might want to visit...'
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comprehensive food section, etiquette & cultural tips easy-to-use pronunciation guide sections include phrases for finding accommodation & for hitting the town useful suggestions for health needs & emergencies extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder Bangladesh is thought to have the worlds longest beach a 120km stretch of uninterrupted sand 70 per cent of the country is underwater during normal monsoonal flooding each year India has over 800 daily newspapers many thousands of weekly and other newspapers and periodicals India has more languages than any other country - fifteen main languages and hundreds of other languages and dialects. Hindu marriages are arranged by families or by advertisements in newspapers
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Hindi, Urdu and Bengali phrasebook" by Lonely Planet is really very helpful.
It is very informative, well organised, cheap and pocket size 304 page phrasebook for three big Indian languages - Hindi, Urdu and Bengali.
The great thing about this phrasebook is that it is very well organised and has easy to follow content page in the beginning.
There are scripts explained of every language and the phrases are in original script and English transliteration.
Hindi and Urdu - two sister languages are in one part of the phrasebook and Bengali makes another part.
Every part is devided into:
TOOLS(Script, pronunciation, grammar and basic vocabulary such as numbers and days of the week etc)
PRACTICAL (involves transport, directions, border crossing, accomodation, shopping, communications, money and banking, sightseeing, business, specific needs)
SOCIAL (meeting people, interests, feelings and opinions, going out, beliefs and cultural differences, outdoors)\
FOOD (eating out, self catering, vegetarian and special meals, culinary reader)
SAFE TRAVEL ( emergencies and health)
DICTIONARIES (English - Hindi/Urdu and Hindi - English and Urdu - English)
The Bengali part of the phrasebook is analogical to Hindi/Urdu part.
The book has emergency and important phrases written on the inside part of its cover, it has small maps on its pages to show where the languages are spoken.
I haven't used the Bengali part yet but I think that Hindi and Urdu phrases written side by side (Hindi in Devanagari script and Urdu in Persian script) can be a bit confusing so it can take time to get used to it.
However I would agree that Lonely Planet is the best phrasebook brand you could possibly find and I think that's correct because these phrasebooks are of a rather good quality. I still use my Hindi phrasebook to learn the basic phrases in different life situations (we are still in India). I would definitely recommend it but, of course, it's only a phrasebook and we shouldn't expect a full language course from it. For that purpose, I would recommend Hindi books by Rupert Snell.
It is very informative, well organised, cheap and pocket size 304 page phrasebook for three big Indian languages - Hindi, Urdu and Bengali.
The great thing about this phrasebook is that it is very well organised and has easy to follow content page in the beginning.
There are scripts explained of every language and the phrases are in original script and English transliteration.
Hindi and Urdu - two sister languages are in one part of the phrasebook and Bengali makes another part.
Every part is devided into:
TOOLS(Script, pronunciation, grammar and basic vocabulary such as numbers and days of the week etc)
PRACTICAL (involves transport, directions, border crossing, accomodation, shopping, communications, money and banking, sightseeing, business, specific needs)
SOCIAL (meeting people, interests, feelings and opinions, going out, beliefs and cultural differences, outdoors)\
FOOD (eating out, self catering, vegetarian and special meals, culinary reader)
SAFE TRAVEL ( emergencies and health)
DICTIONARIES (English - Hindi/Urdu and Hindi - English and Urdu - English)
The Bengali part of the phrasebook is analogical to Hindi/Urdu part.
The book has emergency and important phrases written on the inside part of its cover, it has small maps on its pages to show where the languages are spoken.
I haven't used the Bengali part yet but I think that Hindi and Urdu phrases written side by side (Hindi in Devanagari script and Urdu in Persian script) can be a bit confusing so it can take time to get used to it.
However I would agree that Lonely Planet is the best phrasebook brand you could possibly find and I think that's correct because these phrasebooks are of a rather good quality. I still use my Hindi phrasebook to learn the basic phrases in different life situations (we are still in India). I would definitely recommend it but, of course, it's only a phrasebook and we shouldn't expect a full language course from it. For that purpose, I would recommend Hindi books by Rupert Snell.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Excellent. One of the best ones that I've seen on the market. I like the fact that it also covers Bengali. Would definetly recommend if you're travellng to India / Pakistan. Well done Lonely PLanet.
Format:Paperback
I didn't like it. There is no clear difference made between hard letters and soft letters in English and I found it annoying to use compared to the layouts of other (different language) phrasebooks I've used. It was however nice to have the Urdu translation alongside the Hindi, and it helped me in some cases. Plus I don't think there are many books better than this anyway.
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Published 5 months ago by SJHEARN
Buy the older version
I saw the previous version in a library and wanted my own copy. I bought the latest version - big mistake. So I went off and bought a second copy of the previous version. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Pat Murphy
a usefull little book
I bought this to help me learn some Urdu phrases and words to help in my teaching and communicating with parents.
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