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Quechua Learners Advised to Start Here, February 8, 1999
This review is from: Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) (Paperback)
If you want to learn the language of the Incas, you won't find yourself well served by the book publishing industry. Even if you were to ask for a grammar on Quechua in one of the little bookshops in Cuzco, you'd likely receive a Quechua/Spanish pamphlet used to teach Andean children Spanish, and written by priest with grammatical terminology more appropriate to Latin. We English speakers, however, are fortunate to have this little phrasebook. Although I would have preferred something with much greater depth, I have to admit that as an absolute beginner, I'm best off starting here. The words chosen are those of use to the tourist and trekker. It's more than a phrasebook in that it gives the reader some insight into and practice with Quechua's suffixes, which are critical for mastery of the language. My one complaint is the pronunciation guide, which describes as 'plosives' sounds which are properly called 'ejectives'. I grant you these are arcane linguistic terms, but they are meaningful to a few of us....
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to use, covers a lot of material, inexpensive, April 21, 2002
This review is from: Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) (Paperback)
This easy-to-use reference shows how the words are built, with things like verb endings, infixes, suffixes. It's small, but it has a lot of useful material; for the price it's OUTSTANDING. The SECOND edition is completely revised, by a different author (excellent teaching credentials), vastly more material -- both more gramatical info, and a wealth of additional vocabulary, plus there is also a Quechua-English section as well as English-Quechua, making it an even more valuable reference. Some things are perhaps because Lonely Planet has standardized them -- I doubt you'll be asking anyone for a date in Quechua -- but it's still material to practice breaking apart the pieces. I love the illustrations!
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Good short introduction to Basic Quechua for Tourists, April 20, 1999
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook: India) (Paperback)
Teaches the phrases a tourist would use to travel in the Andes. You won't be able to carry on much of a conversation, But the natives will warm up to you for trying.
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