Lonely Planet phrasebooks (Spanish & Italian)... (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

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Product:	Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
Date:	13/07/00 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: Utile, ben scritto, e economico. (Useful, well-written and cheap.)

Disadvantages: Immaginiamoci! (As if!)

Incredibly helpful, whether you're going away for three days or eighteen months. These phrasebooks - at least the Spanish and Italian ones - are thoroughly modern, and absolutely indispensible.

The usual phrasebook fare is here - booking rooms, boarding trains, finding your way to the post office...
BUT! in these pocket-sized marvels, they also find room for the really challenging situations.

LP, in their infinite wisdom, have included extensive menu decoders, pages highlighting common pitfalls and misinterpreted words, and hundreds of examples of slang and dialect. There are entire sections devoted to the needs of gay travellers, drink and drugs (and the associated dangers), dealing with the police... even sports! If you found you needed to use even a third of the material in here, you'd know you had a great trip.

There are even relationship sections, which take you from pick-up, back to the bedroom, through ALL the nitty-gritty, and on to 'you can't stay here', 'this isn't working out' and the inevitable 'never call me again'. Giggly English prurience aside, these real-life situations are far more useful than 'when does the swimming pool close' - there are hints on how to discourage persistent suitors, for example.

These books are cheap, phenomenonally detailed, well laid-out, and they don't start you off without a basic (though not too basic) overview of grammar. i cannot fault them.

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