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Bezig met laden... Lonely Planet Hindi, Urdu & Bengali Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks) (editie 2011)door Lonely Planet (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkHindi, Urdu & Bengali: Lonely Planet Phrasebook door Richard Delacy
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Lonely Planet's Hindi, Urdu & Bengali Phrasebook & Dictionary is your passport to the most relevant phrases and vocab for all your travel needs. Get more from your multi-country trip with easy-to-find phrases for Hindi, Urdu & Bengali. Ask for directions in dynamic Delhi, book a river trip through Bangladeshi countryside, or haggle like a local at street bazaars -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! Coverage Includes: Hindi, Urdu & Bengali. Organized by language, this one-stop resource makes travelling through multiple countries simple. With each language you can: Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips Never get stuck for words with the 400-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary Be prepared for common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology Meet friends with conversation starter phrases Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides Inside Lonely Planet's Hindi, Urdu & Bengali Phrasebook & Dictionary: Full-color throughout User-friendly layout organized by travel scenario categories Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cues Language map for quick reference Covers Basics - time, dates, numbers, pronunciations, reading tips, grammar rules, common language difficulties Practical - sightseeing, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodations, directions, border crossing, transport Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, weather Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food - ordering, at-the-market, at- the-bar, dishes, ingredients The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Hindi, Urdu & Bengali Phrasebook & Dictionary, a pocket-sized, comprehensive multi-language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance. Great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture. Looking for more? Check out Lonely Planet's India phrasebook for coverage of 15 languages spoken in India. Check out our Fast Talk Phrasebook mobile app for on-the-go language needs. (Available languages: German, Latin Spanish, European Spanish, French, and Italian.) About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, and has been connecting travellers and locals for over 25 years with phrasebooks for 120 languages. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)491.4Language Other Languages East Indo-European and Celtic languages Modern East Indian languages (excluding Dravidian)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.33)
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Its side-by-side presentation of Hindi & Urdu is both intuitive and illustrative, and while the grammar coverage is quite basic (the verb overview covers only the present tense), it is clearly written and does well at highlighting those key differences from English most likely to trip up the beginning speaker. The book is a bit light on cultural notes, however, especially when considered as a traveler's phrasebook - cultural context is notably absent from both the 'drugs' and 'religion' sections, two topics for which it would seem particularly pertinent. Similarly, the dictionary section omits some extraordinarily basic concepts, including ones covered elsewhere in the book, like 'need' and 'thanks'. These same concepts are omitted from the (wholly inadequate) index as well, which could make this a difficult phrasebook to use in time-sensitive settings.
The most serious issue with this work, however, is its absolutely abysmal transliteration scheme, which the authors euphemistically refer to as a 'simplified pronunciation guide'. It not only fails to distinguish between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, but also between dental and retroflex sounds, simplifications that render पल/pal (moment) indistinguishable from फल/phal (fruit) and تھیلا/thelaa (bag) indistinguishable from ٹھیلا/Thelaa (handcart), to name but two examples. These omissions, though, are at least briefly noted in the book's explanatory text. The confusion of the plosive /k/ and the fricative /x/ - which renders خبر/xabar (news) indistinguishable from کبر/kabar (grave) - is not. And as if all that didn't produce confusion enough, nasalization of vowels is represented by a misleading trailing -ng. Fortunately, the vast majority of the phrasebook does include both Devanagari and Naskh (which it calls 'nashk') alongside the romanized text, but there nonetheless remain several key exceptions.
Lesser issues and examples thereof are:
- The occasional odd translation choice - thank you is rendered 'shuk-ri-yah' in Urdu, as expected, but 'thaynk-yoo' in Hindi, despite the existence of the perfectly common and accepted word धन्यवाद/dhanyavaad.
- Similar oddities at the phrase level - I'm not religious is given as 'me-raa ko-ee maz-hab na-heeng hay', or मेरा कोई मज़हब नहीं है / میرا کوئی مذہب نہیں ہے, which would actually be much more closely translated by I have no religion - a potentially provocative phrase, especially in South Asia! A better choice would have been the more ambiguous and less confrontational मैं ज़्यादा मज़हबी नहीं हूँ / میں زیادہ مذہبی نہیں ہوں - I'm not too/very religious. (Pronunciation: maiN zyaadaa mazhabii nahiiN huuN.)
- A few curious decisions on what to include and exclude - the 'local flora & fauna' section teaches leopard and rhinoceros, but much more common creatures (cow, horse, monkey, dog) are nowhere mentioned, and the potentially frightening ones one might rather like to be able to communicate with one's hosts about (spider, scorpion, snake) are equally absent.
All in all, this Lonely Planet phrasebook is a useful resource, albeit one more suited to the needs of the casual traveler than to those of the student intending to make a serious effort at acquiring the language. Intermediate students who can read Devanagari and/or the Perso-Arabic script (and are therefore not dependent on the romanized text as a pronunciation guide) and who have the experience to recognize when a translation seems a bit off can profitably study from it, but beginners are advised to be cautious, lest they find themselves learning phrases and pronunciations they will only end up having to unlearn later. (