Get more from your trip with easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation. Creaky high tones and aspirated consonants have never been so easy! Nor has requesting your favourite song at a karaoke bar, chatting to a monk, or bargaining with your cabbie. With our easy-to-use phrasebook to guide you'll be talking up a storm with the locals in no time. Two-way dictionary Guide to pronunciation and phrase-building New sustainable travel vocab section Useful tips on Burmese etiquette Coverage includes: Pronunciation, Meeting People, Getting Around, Accommodation, Interests, Shopping, Food, Health

Lonely Planetâ (TM)s Burmese Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Burmese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.

This practical language guide for travellers contains many useful phrases, along with expanded sections on geography, trekking, and cultural issues pertinent to this developing country. It includes handy script and transliteration throughout, and a detailed grammar and pronunciation guide to provide a more in-depth look at the language. Index and thumb tabs place all information at the traveller's fingertips.

Cross-cultural communication is easy in Myanmar - a smile will do the trick. But just a few words of Burmese will reward you with an enthusiastic reception. Test your bargaining skills at the many colorful markets or try your hand at karaoke Burmese-style. Get where you're going as you tour on a trishaw or chat with the locals as you party at a pwe. Whatever you choose, you won't be stuck for words! In This Guide: Get script savvy to make sense of signs and menus. Read up on etiquette - don't sit with your back to a Buddha. Show monks respect with special honorific vocabulary. Get in sync with the seasons of the Buddhist lunar calendar. Know your noodles - from mohinga to moun-ti. Find the right word with the comprehensive dictionary.

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Creaky high tones and aspirated consonants have never been so easy! Nor has requesting your favourite song at a karaoke bar, chatting to a monk, or bargaining with your cabbie. With our easy-to-use phrasebook to guide you'll be talking up a storm withthe locals in no time.