Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Multi-Language Dictionaries

Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Russia with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

- Cool slang
- Funny insults
- Explicit sex terms
- Raw swear words

Dirty Russian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Russia:

What's up?
kak de-LA?

I really gotta piss.
mnye O-chen NA-do pos-SAT.

Damn, you fine
blin, nu ti i shi-KAR-nii

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Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Greek with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

- cool slang
- funny insults
- explicit sex terms
- raw swear words

Dirty Greek teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Greece:

What's up? Tee YEE-neh-teh?
I'm wasted. EE-meh gol.
Dude, she's crazy hot. FEE-leh EE-neh treh-LOH moo-NEE.
That girl is...

Whether you're spending a semester in Paris, vacationing in the Riviera, dining at a local bistro or mastering the French culinary art in your own kitchen, The Farm to Table French Phrasebook opens a bountiful world of food that you won't find in any textbook or classroom:

- Navigate produce markets, charcuteries and patisseries
- Prepare meals the French way with delicious, authentic recipes
- Speak the lingo of Paris's top...

The first comprehensive lexicographic work on Cayuga, an Iroquoian language spoken in southern Ontario at Six Nations of the Grand River, this dictionary, combines the work of Dyck, a professor of linguistics, and Froman, Keye, and Keye, all Cayuga language teachers at Six Nations. It contains over 3000 entries, including 1000 verb forms and many nouns never before printed; extensive cross-referencing, thematic appendices that highlight cultural references and provide 1600 further entries, and a short grammatical sketch complete this accomplished work.

Entries in the main dictionary...

Two phonetic syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, and a set of kanji characters based on Chinese ideographs are what comprises written Japanese. This workbook has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the forty-six character hiragana syllabary used to write all types of native words not written in kanji. An understanding of hiragana is essential for the serious...

Writing Japanese Katakana has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the 46-character katakana alphabet, making it the perfect tool to begin the process of mastering written Japanese.

Each character is introduced with brushed, handwritten and typed samples that enhance character recognition. Extensive space for writing allows maximum practice to facilitate memorization and to ensure proper character formation. Entertaining illustrations and amusing examples of loan-words...

This prasebook follows the bestselling Making Out in Japanese providing additional (and classic) phrases for travelers, including ones to help you make acquaintances, discuss likes and dislikes, share a meal, go out on the town or develop a romantic relationship.

If you are a student, businessman or tourist traveling to Japan and would like to have an authentic and meaningful experience, the key is being able to speak like a local. This friendly and...

Saek, a Northern Tai language spoken in villages in Nakhon Phanom province on the border of Northeast Thailand and Laos, is noted for its unique phonological features within the Tai language family. This lexicon, originally compiled by the late Tai linguist William J. Gedney in the 1970s and organized by rhyme, highlights those characteristics that identify the older generation of Saek speakers. Because of these features, linguists believe that Saek will play an important role in the reconstruction of the proto-language of the Tai family. To make the lexicon more accessible, an...

It contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Arabic in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Arabic or travelling to the Arabic-speaking world, it also contains a beginner guide to the Arabic language, allowing for a deeper understanding of Arabic than a typical Arabic phrasebook or Arabic dictionary. The phrase book is organized by situations where one might need to speak Arabic such as: at the hotel, in a taxi,...

This book contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Japanese in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Japanese or travelling to Japan, it also contains a beginner guide to the Japanese language, allowing for a deeper understanding of Japanese than a typical Japanese phrasebook or Japanese dictionary.

The phrase book is broken into two basic sections: Common Japanese...

Do you want to speak simple Japanese but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Japan for a short time and want an Japanese phrase book to help you communicate? If so, than this thoroughly revised second edition of Boye Lafayette De Mente's classic, bestselling phrase book and Japanese dictionary is for you. It's tiny 0.4 x 4.1 x 5.9 inches size makes it incredibly convenient to travel with but without losing the most essential content for communication.

The idea of Instant Japanese is...