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Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook & Dictionary is your passport to the most relevant Nepali phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Know how to organise your mountaineering trip safely and responsibly, bargain with humour in the local bazaars, or order the best momos this side of Mount -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find P...

This textbook will help intermediate students gain advanced levels of proficiency in Urdu. By learning about the mechanics of word-building through contextualising explanations and practical exercises, learners will develop their comprehension skills in reading, writing and speaking. Each module is based on a register from another language and follows the same structure with a self-explanatory introduction illustrated by carefully chosen examples and a range of exercises to improve and test lear...

This Thai phrasebook provides everything the traveller needs to get started. The pronunciation guides are clear and accessible and the guide contains an outline of elementary grammatical principles. Phrase panels in the target language are included to ease two-way communication.

These pocket-sized Essential Phrase Books present the phrases travelers need to know in a way that is concise, accessible, and easy to understand. They cover over 2,000 essential phrases (selected for frequency of use), a glossary of the 2,000 most needed words, and key phrases for dining, lodging, and shopping. No traveler wants to get stuck in a foreign country without knowing how to ask basic questions such as: Where can I buy a ticket? Where's the police station? How much does postage on thi...

Many take advantage of software and hardware accessibility in the English language. However, for non native speakers, this inevitably becomes a problem; specifically for the complex Bangla language which is not easily integrated into the world of technology. Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bangla Language Processing addresses the difficulties as well as the overwhelming benefits associated with creating programmes and devices that are accessible to the speakers of the Bangla language....

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long tradition of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic praise poetry and the first monument of specifically Indian religiousity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European...

Colloquial Urdu provides a step-by-step course in Urdu as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Urdu in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar an...

The Manual of Standard Tibetan presents the everyday speech of Lhasa as it is currently used in Tibet and among the Tibetan diaspora. It not only places the language in its natural context but also highlights along the way key aspects of Tibetan civilization and Vajrayana Buddhism. The Manual, which consists of forty-one lessons, is illustrated with many drawings and photographs and also includes two informative political and linguistic maps of Tibet. Two CDs provide an essential oral complement...

This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own maximal projection, NegP, which is immediately dominated by TP. In addition to locating the position of negation markers in the clause structure, it outlines the distribution...

Gujarati is the official language of Gujarat, an Indian state located on that country's western coast. This book contains Gujarati words appearing in the Latin alphabet to aid the English speaker. The two-way dictionary, concise grammar, and phrasebook help travellers get acquainted with Gujarati speakers.

This Vietnamese phrasebook features comprehensive two-way word lists, dialogues for situations you are likely to encounter, tips on customs, etiquette and slang, detailed menu readers for food and drink, as well as the rules of the language.

This volume is a pioneering study of a free school in an eastern Canadian city. The author describes the attempts of a small group of people to set up a school, bound in some ways to the conventional system, yet reaching beyond it with different ideals. One great value of the study is its careful description of the day-to-day activities as order and organization emerge from amorphous beginnings and develop in spite of threats from within and without. Further, the history of this specific free sc...

Lonely Planet Sinhala Phrasebook & Dictionary is your passport to the most relevant Sinhalese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for in-the-know recommendations of cosy tucked-away beaches, bargain at a vegetable market, and mingle at a local cricket match -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now! Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Tr...