Perfect for travelers, students, and heritage speakers, this compact volume contains over 8,000 entries. It also includes a short introduction to Haitian Creole grammar, common sense phonetic pronunciation for Creole and English, and modern, up-to-date entries in an easy-to-use format.

The bilingual dictionary contains more than 4,000 entries, including all essential daily vocabulary. The phrasebook deals with almost every situation likely to be encountered by travelers, including basic greetings, making hotel reservations, and ordering in restaurants, as well as health care and emergencies.

Used today by approximately 12 million people in Haiti and by the population of the Haitian diaspora across the Caribbean, France, and the United States, Haitian Creole is an essential language to understanding Haiti's social, political, and cultural history. The language is fast becoming the favored medium for Haitian literature and media, and travelers to Haiti are likely to find books, newspapers, radio shows, and television programs produced in Haitian Creole. This dictionary provides the traveler, businessperson, or aid worker with all of the fundamental words and phrases needed to...