The Indian langauge of Marathi is spoken by over 50 million people. It is the dominant language of Bombay, the world's second most populous city, and the surrounding areas. This helpful guide, with its bilingual dictionary and practical phrasebook, is an essential companion for travellers and businesspeople. All Marathi words are presented in romanised form for easy sue by English speakers. The phrasebook is divided into 11 sections, which cover everything from basic greetings to hotels, restaurants, and transportation. A special section is devoted to culture and religion. Other features include a basic grammar and pronunciation guide.
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Marathi is the official language in the state of Maharashtra and the capital of Mumbai. Fortunately for travelers who want to try out Marathi on their journey, there's a new, slick language guide by Daniel Krasa that's slim enough to put in a small bag, yet packed with enough information, words, and phrases to actually be useful... a rare feat.
Krasa's Marathi Dictionary & Phrasebook, published by Hippocrene, has a Marathi-English section and English-Marathi section, as well as short but comprehensive overviews of basic grammar and the Marathi alphabet. What makes this guide really stand out, though, is the phrasebook, which has tabbed sections organized by topic.
A quick flip and you can find handy phrases related to topics as diverse as camping, bureaucracy, and healthcare, as well as the standards: directions to the toilet, basic greetings, and tips for ordering food. -- Matador Pulse, June 19th, 2008
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Daniel Krasa holds a master's degree in General Linguistics as well as diplomas in several language-related fields from schools in India and Jordan. A scholar of Indian and Middle Eastern languages and dialects, he has previously published bilingual guides to Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Arabic, and Romani.
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This review is from: Marathi-English/English-Marathi Dictionary & Phrasebook (Paperback)
Very nice dictionary. The terrain it covers is limited, BUT limited in a thoughtful way: One senses a single, intelligent force behind the design of the whole book. If you read the dictionary entries in this book in parallel with its grammar section, you can actually begin to see how the Marathi language works, using this one slim volume all by itself. That's the sort of elegance one always hopes for but rarely finds in such works.
(Also, I have yet to find a single typo or inconsistency between the Marathi-English and English-Marathi halves of the dictionary. By contrast, in many Chinese dictionaries, for example, the C-E half and E-C half seem written by two teams living on different planets, with maddening inconsistencies and lapses between them.)
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Great book,
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This review is from: Marathi-English/English-Marathi Dictionary & Phrasebook (Paperback)
This is a great-looking book, sure to be of use to anyone traveling to Mumbai/Bombay. It's full of useful words and phrases.
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Best English to Marathi resource I have found.,
By Dan (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Marathi-English/English-Marathi Dictionary & Phrasebook (Paperback)
Even though it is a small book, it covers quite a lot including alphabet, pronunciation, dictionary, phrases, basic grammar and more. It is well organized and fits in a pocket. I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can from it.
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