- Paperback: 64 pages
- Publisher: Graf Editions; 5th Revised edition edition (23 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3980313026
- ISBN-13: 978-3980313025
- Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 8.4 x 0.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 320,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Picture dictionary for travellers.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Point it' manages to be both useful and diverting. Crammed with photographs of everything you might ever wish to point at in an effort to make yourself understood in a foreign country, it is also very small and light, ideal for that already overweight rucksack you are taking on your travels.
The book also makes interesting 'eye candy' and you could while away many hours on that cross-country train wondering in what situation you might need to simultaneously point at a sweet potato, a hypodermic and a large tree.
Those interested in photography and art might also find this book of interest. The book is a self contained and complete photography project that could serve as a starting point for your own work. Marvel at the still lifes and tableau that the photgrapher has laid out! Check out how fashions came and went when you see the cars, caravans, trousers and hairstyles!
All this entertainment and such a small, lightweight and cheap book!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have to say that my copy of this book was not from Amazon at all. In fact it came in a copy of the Observer, as a free gift, similar to the brief guides to everything they throw in once a week these days. At the time me and my mum thought nothing of it (i was in my early teens), it was an interesting book and it was fun to flick through from time to time.
Later, when travelling abroad became more frequent and we took school trips to France it started to come in very handy - the finer points of grammar lessons tend to be lost on you when faced with a shrugging Parisian. Point It is a "pictionary", like those DK Eyewitness books that kids read, each page is an extraordinary still life of everyday objects. There are pictures of every vegetable under the sun, and indeed under the ground. Pictures of medical implements mundane and macabre, planes, trains and automobiles and so on. It even has a schematic of a human body with organs carefully labelled.
The title of the book gives the game away - when you're in a situation where you have no CLUE how to say "I'd like a plaster" or "I drank too much alcohol and my liver hurts" or even "when does the next seaplane leave?" normally you'd be lost. With point it, you simply take out the book, flick to the relevant page and point at the picture of what you're talking about. It is a wonderfully good idea, they say a picture's worth a thousand words, well this is a lot better than lugging round a dictionary or phrasebook.
Did i not say? It's small enough to fit into the most ladylike of pockets too. Perhaps the best point of this is that it's both cheap and multilingual, £4 for a dictionary/phrasebook that will work in any language imaginable is pretty good value. And of course it works both ways, you can hand this to a baffled foreigner so they can show you what they mean - genius!
As I said, i originally got this for free, but it's been so useful (and my copy is so dog-eared and has been dried out one time too many) that i'm compelled to buy another.
I'm travelling to Poland next week and, confused by the sheer number of consonants in the dialect, I think this will come in very handy once again.
Later, when travelling abroad became more frequent and we took school trips to France it started to come in very handy - the finer points of grammar lessons tend to be lost on you when faced with a shrugging Parisian. Point It is a "pictionary", like those DK Eyewitness books that kids read, each page is an extraordinary still life of everyday objects. There are pictures of every vegetable under the sun, and indeed under the ground. Pictures of medical implements mundane and macabre, planes, trains and automobiles and so on. It even has a schematic of a human body with organs carefully labelled.
The title of the book gives the game away - when you're in a situation where you have no CLUE how to say "I'd like a plaster" or "I drank too much alcohol and my liver hurts" or even "when does the next seaplane leave?" normally you'd be lost. With point it, you simply take out the book, flick to the relevant page and point at the picture of what you're talking about. It is a wonderfully good idea, they say a picture's worth a thousand words, well this is a lot better than lugging round a dictionary or phrasebook.
Did i not say? It's small enough to fit into the most ladylike of pockets too. Perhaps the best point of this is that it's both cheap and multilingual, £4 for a dictionary/phrasebook that will work in any language imaginable is pretty good value. And of course it works both ways, you can hand this to a baffled foreigner so they can show you what they mean - genius!
As I said, i originally got this for free, but it's been so useful (and my copy is so dog-eared and has been dried out one time too many) that i'm compelled to buy another.
I'm travelling to Poland next week and, confused by the sheer number of consonants in the dialect, I think this will come in very handy once again.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Such a cheap and small little book and such a good idea. Just come back from a trip to China and helped out a few times. The book is so small and thin unlike most travel stuff you buy and regret lugging round you never really notice it there. Pictures in the book cover most scenarios (in fact many more scenarios than you are ever likely to use) and could help you out. Most useful in countries where reading out from a phrase book isn't practical (complex tonal systems like far east mean people might not understand you) or people might not be literate and hence cannot read highlighted phrases in your phrase book, though you could equally use it to point at some bread in a french bakery.
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Brilliant
Haven't used it yet but it has covered every avenue. I managed to get by without it but it was a comfort knowing I had it to use at any point that I got stuck.
Published 18 days ago by Fay
Universal dictionary
No matter where you're going travelling, this book could prove invaluable. I particularly like the foodie sections...better not be squeamish, though.
Published 5 months ago by clb
bought for someone recovering from a brain operation
bought this for someone recovering from a serious brain operation. although some pics are irrelevant for him being confined to home for the moment, much of the book is very useful... Read more
Published 8 months ago by in search of....
Simple! It really works!
We were so happy with our own that we already gave 5 of these great ways of solving the foreign language problem! Everything is in this really small booklet!
Great!
Great!
Published 13 months ago by Leila Martins Rodrigues
Brilliant!!
Fantastic !! There are still countries where English is not spoken- yes really !!! and so this little book was a life-saver in China !!
Published 15 months ago by Janet
Can't praise this book highly enough
This is the fourth copy of this book that I've bought. Every time a friend tells me they're going off to travel around the world I give them my copy as I know how useful it will... Read more
Published 18 months ago by the_roadshow
a very useful peice of kit for all travellers
the tile says it all, there is an ipod app as well, but then there would be as it is so useful
Published 18 months ago by cu14
Makes a good gift
I bought this book to take to China with me, and it was everything I expected it would be. The food sections are particularly diverse, with dishes from a range of cultures. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Melissa
Interesting
Have not had an opportunity to use this yet, but as I am going to Croatia next month I'm sure it will be usefull.
Published 22 months ago by filynne
fun little book
just what you need on holiday- light and easy to use, puts a smile on everyone's face
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by Helen A. Xenopoulos
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