The Georgian Phrasebook: Fully Transliterated (Georgian Edition) [Paperback]

David Abashidze (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 16, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1442101938 | ISBN-13: 978-1442101937

This guide to Georgia for the first time collects the most common Georgian phrases and expressions. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, sightseeing and many other categories of expressions that will help you when traveling to Georgia. This phrasebook doesn't assume prior knowledge of Georgian or the ability to read it. All of the expressions are transliterated in English with labeled stress enabling any English speaker to pronounce the words with reasonable accuracy. This phrasebook is a must for anyone planning a trip to Georgia.

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About the Author

David Abashidze and Lisa Kotsen compile phrasebooks for off the path destinations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 46 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (March 16, 2009)
• Language: Georgian
• ISBN-10: 1442101938
• ISBN-13: 978-1442101937
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #723,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful addition to Learn Georgian Language, August 9, 2009

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I'm giving The Georgian Phrasebook four stars because it is a useful complement to your other materials. Keep in mind that it is not a stand-alone book if you want to master the Georgian language. Keep in mind that there is no Kartuli script in this book, so it will not help you decipher signs if you are using it on the road. But here's how it will help you:
First, understand that no one book will allow you to master this language, especially if you are not working with the benefit of a teacher. But let's say you want to memorize numbers and how the number system works in Georgian... Dodona Kiziria's Beginner's Georgian helped you pronounce and memorize cardinal numbers 1 to 10. Your Byki downloaded wordlist is not only flashing 1 to 10 at you, but the 'teens, thirty, forty, one thousand...argh! Frustration!
I take out The Georgian Phrasebook, with its nice, clean, simple graphic presentation, and just stare at the list of numbers. All of a sudden, they start making sense! For the 'teens, you add T- to the front and -meti to the back of the root: "Otkhi", the number 4, is transformed into "T-otkh-meti", the number 14. Thirty, "Otsdaati", I can now see is "Ots-da-ati", or "twenty-and-ten"; forty is "two-times-ten"; fifty is "forty-and-ten"...now I'm getting somewhere! Satisfied, I now get back to Byki and happily type away, my frustrating language block removed!