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Lonely Planet Bengali Phrasebook | 
 enlarge | Author: Bimal Maity
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.97
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 518836
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 3.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0864423128
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.4483421
EAN: 9780864423122
ASIN: 0864423128
Publication Date: February 1996
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Product Description
Order a meal, catch an auto-rickshaw, chat with the locals, bargain for souvenirs - and do it all in Bengali! This phrasebook gives you easy-to-pronounce phonetic transcriptions as well as Bengali script with every phrase. Other features include thorough pronunciation and grammar guides and a comprehensive vocabulary section to make communication even easier. - essential companion for any traveller to West Bengal and Bangladesh
- from bargaining to bureaucracy - full of day-to-day expressions to get you by
- fascinating information and vocabulary on festivals, religious ideas and terms, sightseeing and getting to know people
- script and transliteration throughout
- sections on pronunciation and grammar
- thumb tabs and comprehensive index for fast, easy reference
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent September 24, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this book as one of the several "tools" I am using to learn Bengali. The book starts with an explanation of the transliteration used and a brief explanation of grammar. It then goes into common words and phrases. The book provides both transliteration and the Bengali script for many phrases. There is an excellent glossary at the back of the book that is listed alphabetically in English. It also includes transliteration and Bengali script. This is excellent for building your Bengali vocabulary. For information on how to incorporate a phrase book into your language learning process I recommend "How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own" by Barry J. Farber.
 I used this to get around in a village w/almost no English November 17, 1999
Jeff C. Young (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I spent 25 days in West Bengal with this book on me at all times. After leaving Calcutta, I found very few people who could speak much English. As it was designed for, it was fast to use to find a phrase, and pretty easy to be understood when reading. I needed few words that were not included in the book. I intend to use phrasebooks every time I want to learn a language - before I leave for the country.
 interesting yet derogatory example of "lonliness" October 30, 1999
0 out of 69 found this review helpful
The author could have expressed more of desire to understand than explain. The phrases are allogorical of the many multilingual facets available in such a small country. Yet she does give some adequate examples of rudimentary uses of phrases. Thus, one can view Bimal Maity's efforts to categorize variations in the languages of Bangladesh fruitless at best. But the truth is, I have not read the book and can only surmise of the book's content by reading the title.
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