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Swahili Phrasebook | 
| Author: Martin Benjamin
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
Buy New: $8.99
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 34567
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 3.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1741047056
Dewey Decimal Number: 496
EAN: 9781741047059
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
To pack for East Africa:
binoculars for spotting zebu
down jacket for the climb up Kilimanjaro
mosquito net for camping on the multi-day safari
this phrasebook for everything else
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Informative, Helpful Vocab. and Dictionary for Beginners July 26, 1999
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
It may not be the only book you'll need to grasp the concepts of the Swahili language, but it is definitely a must-have supplement. Covering a wide variety of topics, this inexpensive little book holds a lot of information. Grammar and pronounciation tips throughout the book help you to build confidence and understanding when putting those hundreds of new vocabulary words to use. Different scenerios are broken down into appropriate chapters, making words for every situation easy to find. And to top it off, reinforcing crossword puzzles and a two-way dictionary at the back of the book. Excellent!
The one book I always had in my bag November 15, 2001
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
There just aren't that many swahili dictionaries or phrasebooks out there, and this one turns out to be useful too. Its small size makes it easy to take everywhere and the sections give travelers a good feel for the language without being too overwhelmed by swahili's many noun classes. I would recommend it more as a reference than as a stand-alone teaching tool, but the english-swahili, swahili-english dictonary is comprehensive and useful for travelers with all degrees of Kiswahili fluency. My copy has turned somewhat brown from all the dust, but the book has held up well. I would hate to be stuck in East Africa without it.
Essential for a trip to East Africa June 30, 2000
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I have purchased a few different materials to try to learn the Swahili language. The was by far the best value. It is full of useful information, and unlike the others that I purchased, actually teaches you how to build sentences, and not just ask where the train station is. If you purchase this along with some tapes, you will learn the language much faster.
"Must Have" for East African Tourists January 26, 2005
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
What's not to like? The compact size makes it easy to pack and tote on your trip to East Africa. It works great as a pre-trip study resource for the language - and equally well if you never open it until you are in a market in Tanzania and want to know "bei gani?" ("how much?") The book is organized in a way that makes sense - you can go to the section on shopping and find, not just a list of vocabulary words, but lots and lots of phrases to cover all kinds of situations. (If you have ever had to look up what you want to say word by word in a language guide, you will appreciate the value of this feature.) Like all Lonely Planet publications, it is written with a sense of attitude and energy - not dry like many language guides. My (Ki)Swahili is pretty good at this point - but I still pack this book whenever I go to East Africa.
VERY HELPFUL August 12, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The highlights of this book is that it contains not only the dictionaries and useful phrases but also good explanation of grammar which makes understanding easier. Can't learn a language without grammar. They also try not to complicate by teaching "survival Swahili".
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