Rick Steves' German Phrase Book and Dictionary

Rick Steves' German Phrase Book and Dictionary

Product Type: Book

Product Price: $8.95

Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing

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Description

Guten Tag! From ordering bratwurst in Munich to making new friends in the Rhine Valley, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter. This handy guide provides key phrases for use in everyday circumstances, complete with phonetic spelling; an English-German and German-English dictionary; the latest information on European currency and rail transportation, and even a tear-out cheat sheet for continued language practice as you wait in line at the Gemaldegalerie. Informative, concise, and practical, Rick Steves' German Phrase Book and Dictionary is an essential item for any traveler's Rucksack.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-03
Summary: "German Phrase Book Rick Steves"

Excellent phrase book for travel to Germany. Many additional aids in the book. Convenient size also.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-22
Summary: "Very useful phrases!"

This book is very concise and useful! I found it very easy to accurately translate quickly.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-06-04
Summary: "Great book!"

This is a great beginners book to visiting Germany. The information is well-organized and helpful.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-04-01
Summary: "german phrase book"

this little book will be a great help to me in traveling in Germany--although I do have a rather spare knowledge of the language, the idiom often escapes me--hence this will be a genuine positive, too, thanks to its small size.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-03-04
Summary: "Wir sprechen keine English hier!"

I bought Rick Steves' German Phrase Book before making a business trip to Leipzig last month. I had three years of high school German almost 40 years ago, but was told that "everyone in Germany speaks fluent English." I feel strongly that Americans should get over their arrogance about speaking English only, so I brushed up on essential phrases hoping that I would have a chance to practice my very rusty German. Did I ever!

I discovered that many, perhaps most, older people in the former DDR do not speak English at all, but were overwhelmingly patient and encouraging of my efforts to communicate in their language. Whenever I knew that I would be dealing with a specific activity, such as buying a train ticket,I got out my phrase book and reviewed the language I would need to complete the transaction. Rick Steves' books are easy and practical to use, and I found that this one prodded my memory of German vocabulary and syntax to the point that I was chatting away quite comfortably by the end of the week!

I was so pleased with my German phrase book that I ordered the Spanish version for my daughter and her beau, who are planning a trip to Puerto Rico during Spring Break!