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| The Rough Guide to French Dictionary Phrasebook 3 (Rough Guide Phrasebooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Sales Rank: 97712
Media: Paperback
Edition: Blg Upd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 267
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1843536250
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9781843536253
ASIN: 1843536250
Publication Date: May 29, 2006
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Product Description
The Rough Guide phrasebook will have you speaking French as soon as you arrive. This fully revised third edition includes 16-pages of additional scenario material, from asking for directions and ordering a glass of wine to checking train times and reserving a hotel room. Recorded by native French speakers, the scenarios are available as downloadable audio files either to your computer or iPod perfect for practicing your pronunciation. With A-Z English to French and A-Z French to English translations, this pocket-sized phrasebook is like taking along your own personal translator!
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 Terrific! August 2, 2008
The best French phrasebook I've ever used. Just came back from two weeks in Paris and it was invaluable!!
Rough vs. Berlitz June 27, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Excellent guide. Small and convenient to carry. I also purchased the Berlitz phrase book & dictionary but found myself referring to the Rough guide most of the time. In my opinion the Rough guide is more user friendly.
 Rough Guide French actually enables you to say more than 6 words of French on any trip you might make to France. April 12, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Rough Guide French is structured completely different from most phrase books: The first several dozen pages gives you numbers, days of the week, time, etc., and a 20 minute course in French grammar. Oh no, you might be saying, but it is presented very simply. For instance it presents a handful of common verbs and their conjugations. So on one page you can see how to say "I have," "he has, " etc. and "I like," "he/ she likes," etc.
The rest of the book is split between an English-French dictionary, a French-English dictionary, and a multi-page menu reader. What makes the English-French dictionary pages unique, though, is that most every other page (at least) has dialogue boxes relating to the most useful word(s) on that particular page. For instance, when you thumb through the book for the word "live," you get the word itself, but also the phrases "I live in..." and "Where do you live?" It'll take you 10 minutes to find such a phrase in Berlitz or Lonely Planet in their "getting to know others' section. But because Rough Guide is structured as a dictionary, with hundreds of really useful phrases highlighted in boxes within, you can access something you want to say rather swiftly...and actually deliver it just a minute or so after looking for it. Add the grammar section, where you learn useful verbs and how to conjugate their past tenses, and the number section, and you can easily learn to chat with someone about where you are from, where you are going, where you have traveled thus far, what you like/liked, and so on. Likewise, knowing how to say "have" makes it easy to ask whether a hotel has rooms, whether the room has a shower (after thumbing through the book for the word for shower), etc. And when the answer comes back that the hotel doesn't have, or say "we have," you can actually catch what they are saying.
If still not persuaded, next time you're in a bookstore compare a Berlitz, a Lonely Planet, and a Rough Guide language phrase book side by side. Lonely Planet French, for example, is basically several pages of basic grammar followed by many sections of phases you won't likely ever use. For instance, the guide provides several pages each of lists of occupations, nationalities, college majors, items of stationary, jewelery, colors, insects, flowers, aquatic sports(!), electrical appliances, camping terms,and so on. Also provided are pat phrases to employ at a hotel's front desk, at a doctor's, at the optometrist, and eating out, among other mini-sections. The book, in effect, is set up to be taken out to be used once a day, if that. It's an improvement on Berlitz phrase books, but not by much. (Berlitz simply divides their books into 10 or so color coded sections such as: "sightseeing," "relaxing," "shopping," traveling around," "money," "eating out," etc.)
So, if you just want a book for emergencies (say, breaking a leg, etc.) then Berlitz and/or Lonely Planet phrase books will serve you well...in your pocket until you are faced with such a situation, since they do have many more specific terms (like 50 different parts of the the body), but if you really want to be able to say some things in French on a daily basis during your trip you'll be much better served by Rough Guide French. Cheers
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