German: Lonely Planet Phrasebook | 
| Authors: Gunter Muehl, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 22569
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 3.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1740599802
Dewey Decimal Number: 430
EAN: 9781740599801
ASIN: 1740599802
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Three travelers walk into a Biergarten. One has a map, one has a Swiss army knife and one has a copy of this phrasebook. Guess who gets served first?
Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
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 Good reference September 2, 2007
If you know no German, like me, it's a useful book for pronunciation and vocabulary. It also includes useful, simple sentences that can help you out in a pinch. It's not a textbook, so purchasers of it shouldn't expect detailed info. I bought it on impulse at LAX on my way to Munich and was glad I did.
 Not helpful April 20, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book figuring that Lonely Planet would have a relatively savvy and useful language phrasebook. However, this is a fairly poor guide to speaking basic German - I took it with me on my first trip to Germany and found this book to be confusingly organized when I wanted to find correct phrases in a hurry. In fact, there were one or two instances where I believe it taught me incorrect contextual usage. Look elsewhere.
Limited use if you speak basic German July 15, 2005
11 out of 19 found this review helpful
The lonely planet German phrase book is well designed for a pocket sized two-way dictionary, but in my past three trips to Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, I only pulled out the book on a few occasions. In fact, I've made more use of the dictionary while in international chat-rooms and trying to type basic German phrases.
The book is divided into some nice subject areas: practical (which includes travel and shopping phrases), social, food, and safe travel (which is more of an emergency section). I've made the most use of the food and social sections. I think most people traveling to German speaking countries will want to invest in a German language CD and learn your basic travel and shopping phrases from an audio program. German is pretty easy to learn for a native English speaker. However, having an extensive food dictionary on hand is a good idea when you are trying to order something other than "bier" or "bratwurst". (Of course, you should still treat yourself to German beer and bratwurst -- it is amazing!)
However, I still found the book to be of limited use, for two reasons: (1) despite the color coded subject areas, when I've really needed vocabulary fast, hunting through the book is still awkward, and (2) many German speakers can understand some amount of English. While I do like this book, I've found that I've not really needed it (I had two years of German as a kid). I carried my book in my small book bag, but never in my pocket. However, if you do not speak basic German, I'd recommend buying a copy of this book.
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