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Title: Lonely Planet Czech Phrasebook: With Two-Way Dictionary (Czech Phrasebook, 1st Ed) by Eugenia Mocnay ISBN: 1-86450-184-7 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good investment
Comment: For only 8 dollars I think this book is a good buy. Sure, you will find people who speak English in the Czech Republic, but I think it would be 'slightly' rude that you didnt even make an effort to learn some key phrases in Czech before your visit. Czech is their official language, and if you want to have a real cultural experience rather than getting by on your English, then I would recommend looking into this product. This book will lend you some key phrases as well as background to the country and people of ancient Bohemia. I visited the Czech Republic also, and found that many of their street signs, signs in general were in Czech, and it was really useful for me to look it up in the phrasebook. Also as well as the dictionary, it has subject vocabulary, as in what to do when you're in a restaurant, what to say in a doctor's office, telling the time, things like that-mostly anything you can think of. The biggest plus of this product is that it is actually up to date, and gives you vocabulary for anything (even what to say on a date!) and isnt out of sync with the times. Also it was coveniently sized to fit into my small purse or pocket withouot being an incovenience. I think this product helped me in familiarizing myself with their culture before going there-so I wasnt as culture shocked as some of my other colleauges. I recommend this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: If you're going to a major city in the Czech Republic, say Prague, don't bother with this book. Almost everyone there speaks English anyway so to the extent that you need to learn phrases like "thank you", "please", etc. just to be polite, you can use the language index from a regular old guidebook like Fodors. Even if you do go out into the country, you won't be able to use much more that what's in the guidebooks anyway. After all, a few key phrases and lots of pointing and smiling will get you farther than being able to say "You should visit us in Scotland sometime when you're in the area". And you'll never ever ever understand anything that's said back to you based on a book like this. The motto "Don't just sit there, say something" is meaningless. Sure I can phonetically babble all the mumbo jumbo I want, but that doesn't mean that I can actually communicate something with someone in Eastern Europe. And we couldn't find how to ask for the check in a restaurant anywhere in this book, which is one of those useful phrases when you head to places like this.
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Title: Lonely Planet Prague (Prague, 5th Ed) by Neil Wilson ISBN: 1740593545 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Streetwise Prague by Streetwise Maps, Michael Brown ISBN: 1886705208 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: In-Flight Czech : Learn Before You Land by Living Language ISBN: 0609810650 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Czech & Slovak Republics (Czech and Slovak Replubics, 3rd Ed) by Neil Wilson, Richard Nebesky, John King ISBN: 1864502126 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Practical Czech Simplified by Gary Evans ISBN: 0963923447 Publisher: 2000 Publishing Co., Inc. Pub. Date: 15 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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