Eyewitness Phrase Books

Series · 25

books · 1958-2013

By Stina Bruce-Jones, Ragne Hopkins, D. K. Publishing, and more

Books in series

Italian Visual Phrase Book

2009

Planning a trip to Italy? The Eyewitness Travel Italian Visual Phrase Book can help you start learning Italian today. Whether you're visiting Italy for business or pleasure, learn how to speak Italian with essential words and phrases for hundreds of illustrated everyday objects. Find key phrases galleries of words and pictures make it easy to find key basic vocabulary at a glance and help you remember what you've seen. Learn phrases to help you find your way around, eat out, shop and go sightseeing. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word and phrase will help you speak like a native. Perfect for business travelers, students, or tourists. Combining the best of DK's visual approaches to learning languages, DK's Visual Phrase Books teach phrases that are essential for successfully navigating a foreign country.

French Visual Phrase Book

2011

Do you need to brush up your French, or learn the lingo? Or are you off to France and want to make sure you're understood? Find key phrases in this effective survival language guide for real-life situations.

Hebrew

1995

Featuring pronunciation, a menu guide, a mini-dictionary, hotel information, and emergency phrases. Traveling to Israel but worried about tackling Hebrew during your stay? You won't be if you take along this essential language guide for every traveler. The Hebrew words and phrases you may require are listed with their distinctive Hebrew characters, but also printed in familiar Roman letters. Following an easy-to-use pronunciation system that is fully explained in the Introduction, the book outlines the sounds of the Hebrew alphabet. The "Cross-Cultural Notes" details many aspects of Israeli society and traditional customs. So take this phrase book with you to Israel, and you'll be able to say to the waiter, "Zeh haya tov meod, toda raba." (The meal was very good, thank you). Whether you're trying to order dinner or get back to your hotel, you cannot make your way without knowing what to say, and the Eyewitness Travel Guide Phrase Books are the perfect guide for tongue-tied tourists. These compact, user-friendly books fit right into your pocket or purse, and meet the communications needs of the tourist and business traveler alike. Based on an innovative system of imitated pronunciation, phrases are organized into logical and practical divisions, including time; food and drink; air travel; bus, taxi, and subway information; shopping; health and medical care; and much more. Typical replies to questions you may be asked, as well as signs and instructions you're likely to see or hear, are also given. The guides also include a carefully selected mini-dictionary, and useful conversion tables translating distance, clothing sizes, and weight.

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Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

Russian

1998

These compact, easy-to-use books provide travelers with the essential phrases to get around in a foreign country.

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Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

European

2001

Essential words and phrases for every traveler. Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Instant access to the key words and phrases you need to order a meal, reserve a hotel room, or just make friendly conversation. Unique system of imitated pronunciation enables you to "say it as you see it."

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Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

Norwegian

1998

Featuring pronunciation, a menu guide, a mini-dictionary, hotel information, and emergency phrases. Whether you're trying to order dinner or get back to your hotel, you cannot make your way without knowing what to say, and the Eyewitness Travel Guide Phrase Books are the perfect guide for tongue-tied tourists. These compact, user-friendly books fit right into your pocket or purse, and meet the communications needs of the tourist and business traveler alike. Based on an innovative system of imitated pronunciation, phrases are organized into logical and practical divisions, including time; food and drink; air travel; bus, taxi, and subway information; shopping; health and medical care; and much more. Typical replies to questions you may be asked, as well as signs and instructions you're likely to see or hear, are also given. The guides also include a carefully selected mini-dictionary, and useful conversion tables translating distance, clothing sizes, and weight.

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Manadarin Chinese Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

1998

A pocket dictionary with vital vocabulary, phrases, and information for travelers. Filled with common Chinese Mandarin phrases and everyday vocabulary, this is an easy-to-transport dictionary that is perfect for vacations or business trips. Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book Chinese is organized by subject, making it is easy to find relevant information including transportation, food, shopping, sports, and health care. Each word has a pronunciation guide to ensure proper communication. From the always useful What time is it? question to more complex business vocabulary, this guide has everything you need to communicate in a foreign language. This book also comes with a 2,000-word mini dictionary for quick reference during conversations. Essential packing for travelers, Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book Chinese ensures they will never be at a loss for words.

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Greek Phrase Book

1998

Quick, easy-to-use and a perfect size to fit in your pocket, this work is organized by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels, and travelling around. It uses a simple and effective system of imitated pronunciation.

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Swedish Phrase Phrase Book

1999

These compact, easy-to-use books provide travelers with the essential phrases to get around in a foreign country.

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Polish Phrase Book

1999

Covers subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels and travelling around. This work uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.

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Chinese Visual Phrase Book

2009

Do you need to brush up your Chinese, or learn the language? Or are you off to China and want to make sure you're understood? A survival language guide for real-life situations. It includes an easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word and phrase that helps you speak like a native.

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Turkish Phrase Book

2001

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Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

Hungarian

1999

English, Hungarian

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Greek

1997

This Eyewitness Travel Guide Phrase Book has been compiled by experts to meet the general needs of tourists and busines travellers. Arranged under such headings as Hotels Motoring and so forth the words and phrases you may need are also printed in familiar roman letters following an easy to use pronunciation system fully explained in the book's introduction.Most sections of this book include boxes headed Things You'll See which list common words signs notices etc. that you may see while the boxes headed Things You'll Hear contain typical replies to questions you may ask during your journey.A 1 900-line mini-dictionary will help you form additional phrases and the extensive menu guide lists approximately 250 dishes or methods of cooking and presentation. Guidance on aspects of the culture customs and holidays will be given under the heading Cross-cultural Notes.

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Turkish Phrase Book

2000

Organized by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels, travelling around, this title includes a menu section. It uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.

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Portuguese Phrase Book

1958

Deals with subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels and travelling around. This work uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.

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Italian Phrase Book (Eyewitness Travel Guide)

1998

A travel phrasebook for anyone planning a trip to an Italian-speaking country, this pocket-sized paperback includes all the essential words and phrases for every traveler. Even experienced speakers will benefit from the detailed cultural and travel-specific knowledge, and first-time speakers will find it easy to pick up the key words and phrases they need to get by. Easy to browse and easy to carry, it will travel with you wherever you go and give you language help at your fingertips. Part of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Phrase Book series. These pocket dictionaries give business and vacation travelers everything they need for a smooth, successful trip. Organized by subject, they help the traveler quickly find the vocabulary relevant to any situation, whether transportation, hotels, meals, shopping, post offices and banks, sports, or health care, and the phrasebook and glossary are accompanied by a pronunciation guide. At the end of each guide book is a 2,000-word mini-dictionary.

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Czech Phrase Book

2000

Covers subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels and travelling around. This work uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.

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Arabic Phrase Book

1999

These compact, easy-to-use books provide travelers with the essential phrases to get around in a foreign country.

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Danish Phrase Book

1998

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Eyewitness Travel Phrasebook

Bulgarian

2000

These compact, easy-to-use books provide travelers with the essential phrases to get around in a foreign country. Topics include time (the days, months, and seasons), numbers, transportation, shopping, medical care, and more. Also provided are appropriate replies to questions that may be asked during a trip, plus information on the signs and instructions a traveler may encounter.

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Indonesian Phrase Book

2000

These compact, easy-to-use books provide travelers with the essential phrases to get around in a foreign country.

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Spain

1989

Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautiful commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides show what others only tell.

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DK Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book

Thai (DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Phrase Books)

1998

Quick, easy-to-use and a perfect size to fit in your pocket, this work is organized by subjects such as everyday phrases, hotels, and travelling around. It uses a simple system of imitated pronunciation.

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Chinese Visual Phrase

2013

An innovative visual approach to learning and using basic Chinese phrases. Do you need to brush up on your Chinese for an upcoming trip? Then pick up a copy of Chinese Visual Phrase Pack and start learning today. Whether you're visiting China for business or pleasure, you'll want to be understood and this guide will ensure you are. Find key phrases fast in this effective survival language guide for real-life situations. Galleries of words and pictures make it easy to find key basic Chinese vocabulary at a glance and help you remember what you've seen. No prior knowledge required so you can learn phrases to help you find your way around, eat out, shop and go sightseeing. Plus, a 60-minute audio CD will help you practise beforehand. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word and phrase will help you communicate with the native speakers when you've arrived. So pop "Chinese Visual Phrase". Pack in your pocket when you're out and about in China so you can converse with the locals without any trouble. Now with a new look.

Authors

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%. Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne. Source: Wikipedia.

Fania is a historian and author of 'Israelis in Berlin' (Keter/Suhrkamp, 2001) and 'Jews and Words' (Yale, Nov. '12, co-authored with Amos Oz). Her history books include 'Translating the Enlightenment' (Oxford, 1995) and several edited volumes. She is professor of history at the University of Haifa. Also a political commentator and concerned citizen (very concerned, these days). Her academic articles dwell on intellectual history, political thought, and the transmittal of concepts across languages and cultures. Her opinion articles appeared in International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Le Figaro. Most importantly, she is a reader and mother of two young readers.