Barron's Travelwise Croatian (Travel Phrase Books) (Paperback)

~ Dusan Vitas (Author), Kathleen Luft (Translator), Barron's Publishing (Author), Barrons Educational Series (Author)

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Product Description

Barron's TravelWise Language Learning Series contains the essentials any traveler to a foreign country needs, especially for understanding and making oneself understood in everyday situations. The book gives any traveler a great start in picking up practical words, phrases, and general information about the host country. The audio-tape gives travelers a complete language-learning package. Full-color photos and maps.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; Book and Cassette edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764170937
• ISBN-13: 978-0764170935
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,574,840 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a good phrasebook with a great grammar section, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This book is mostly designed as a standard travel phrasebook, with useful info for dealing with hotels, restaurants, travel, making conversation, and so on.

But amazingly enough it also has a great 20-30 grammar section at the back which is the best explanation for some of the things that have stumped me on Croatian grammar in other textbooks designed to teach the language... a great quick reference for stuff like when you use the different cases of nouns, which case goes with which preposition, what all the prepositions mean, how to construct past, present & future tense of verbs, how to conjugate many common verbs; and so on.

This book is great!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phrase book is solid, but the cassette is superfluous, November 2, 2001

By	Christopher Culver - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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BARRON'S TRAVELWISE CROATIAN is an very helpful phrasebook with a clear layout, comprehensive list of phrases, and a concise overview of Croatian grammar and pronunciation that is nonetheless compact and lightweight. I brought it along on a trip to Zagreb this past summer and was very happy with it.

However, I would recommend buying the book alone, and not the book-and-cassette combination. Croatian pronunciation is much like Spanish or Italian, and the orthography is so simple that anyone should be able to read out loud words they've never encountered before. Cassettes for this language aren't necessary and only add to the cost, and they also add unnecessary bulk to one's suitcase.

This was my first purchase in Barron's Travelwise series of phrase books and I was quite impressed. I'd recommend this phrasebook above all others for anyone going to Croatia.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book yes, cassettes questionable, July 23, 2001

By	Andrew "Ciao" (Boston MASS) - See all my reviews

There aren't many books available for those seeking to learn Croatian. I was certainly happy with the book. I also got the cassette, and I found it to be useless. It doesn't follow the book at all. In fact, it is a completely separate conversation, following a separate booklet included in the package. Cassettes are usually useful, especially when they follow the lesson plans in the text. Not in this case!