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Title: Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook (LONELY PLANET NEPALI PHRASEBOOK) by Mary Jo O'Rourke, Bimal Man Shrestha ISBN: 1-74059-192-5 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Helpful, up to a certain point
Comment: My Nepali boyfriend gave me this little book to learn his language, since when I met him, I had nothing good to say about his country because I knew nothing about it. I was grateful for alot of things in the book, like grammer, sentence structure, who you speak to, cultural tips, etc. But I found the pronunciation guide horrible. They do not explain the differences between many sounds, and only explain certain consonants. They introduce the Devanagari script rather suddenly with no explanation. It would be helpful to know HOW to read it and understand what is written instead of just recognizing it by sight and nothing else, although that is good too.
The dictionary was helpful in the back, but very limited. It only went over words mentioned in the book, and didn't broaden words from outside of what was reviewed. I liked the book as a starter...but even my boyfriend admitted that some things were not said right. (Not as they speak it today, it's too old-fashioned, etc.) I kept having to go to him and ask him things, and the whole point of me having the book was so he wouldn't have to try and teach me. (hahahaha)
So, I guess I would recommend it to people who know nothing about Nepali, but be sure to have someone to ask questions. It's bad enough when you are running blind with a language you haven't heard of before.
Rating: 5
Summary: Handy little phrasebook at a nice cheap price
Comment: I was surprised that the two reviews prior to mine gave such a bad rating. Well, I'm half-Indian, I was born in the north-east of India near the Himalayas with very close contact with Nepalis in my early childhood and I couldn't actually see what the problem was with this book! It's small, compact, glossy, useful and very cheap, I mean what else do you want if you are only looking for the basics.
However, I can read and speak Hindi and know basic customs (which are actually explained in the phrasebook, for example food etiquette) so perhaps that made a difference. Hindi is closely related to Nepali and written in the same Devanagari script. You can actually learn the Devanagari script from this phrasebook which I find sets the Lonely Planet phrasebooks above most phrasebooks. If you don't want to learn the script, then the phonetic tranliteration system used is the correct one generally used by linguists, which ensures a word is correctly pronounced by the student, even when reading in English. This is why I prefer Lonely Planet phrasebooks as once you master the basics of script and pronunciation along with basic grammar (yes, it has a solid basic grammar section as well) you actually have a good base to further learn the language if you want.
I found the phrases in it very useful. You get a very good starting point for customs, ordering food, hotel rooms etc. As I said, it's also in a nice, very small size. Amazing actually how much information is packed in considering how small the phrasebook is.
Rating: 2
Summary: Just buy the book in Nepal
Comment: And you find better ones. Lonley planet again fails to deliver with yet another product. The organization is poor, bad choice of phrases, etc..
Heres a tip: skip the book, goto Nepal, meet some Nepali's talk with them, learn a little, then go to the millions of bookstores in Khatmandhu and find a book that fits your needs.
It may be this one, but I doubt it.
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Title: Nepali-English/English-Nepali Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) by Prakash A. Raj ISBN: 0781809576 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Nepali for Trekkers: Language Tape and Phrase Book by Stephen Bezruchka, Stephen Bezruchka M. D. ISBN: 0898863112 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title:Talk Now! Nepali ASIN: B0000899QJ Publisher: EuroTalk Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Nepali Complete Course by Michael Hutt, Abhi Subedi ISBN: 0071424687 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 16 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, Eighth Edition by Stan Armington ISBN: 1864502312 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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