Lonely Planet Turkish Phrasebook 2nd Edition

Turkish Edition by Tom Brosnahan (Author), Jim Masters (Author), Perihan Masters (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0864424361

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Ever wanted to try those Turkish baths? Better still, to chat with the locals as you while away the hours in the steam? If only you knew to say 'saatler olsun!' - 'May it last for hours!' - the common expression Turks exchange after the baths, you might cross the first hurdle to conversation. Try it, and many more, from this phrasebook, to take you into the culture, not just passing through it.

extensive two-way dictionary
all the language you need to travel, shop, catch the sights and meet people
plenty of colloquial usage and common expressions to help you understand
conversation is easier with sections on family, interests, politics, and sports
thorough pronunciation and grammar chapters will help you actually learn the language

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet; 2nd edition (January 31, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English, Turkish
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0864424361
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0864424365
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 3.74 x 0.51 x 5.51 inches

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Tom Brosnahan
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Tom Brosnahan is a veteran writer whose novels, guidebooks, and websites have taken travelers around the world for decades.
His first novel, "Paris Girls Secret Society," and second, "Istanbul Love Bus," are travel-centric, combining intimate knowledge of people and places with drama, humor, and insight. His humorous travel memoir, "Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea," reads like a novel of his experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in Turkey, and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes perilous adventures as a travel writer.
"Serene - a novel of the Belle Époque" (2022) highlights how the turmoil of today's world is not new: it's all happened before.
His 40 guidebooks to Belize, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, New England, Tunisia and Turkey for Lonely Planet, Frommer's, Berlitz and Insight have sold millions of copies worldwide, and have been translated into a dozen languages. His travel websites, including FranceTravelPlanner.com, NewEnglandTravelPlanner.com, TurkeyTravelPlanner.com and others, are visited by millions of travelers from 230+ countries.
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Can't do without it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2015

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Merci! I never did correctly learn how to pronounce the formal thank you. People just looked at me weird when I said it. But, this book has been close at hand for the past 5 years. The Turkish DVD by Bill and Perihan Masters is a perfect companion for this book if you can find it. Beware, there are some semi nude photos on the DVD.

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Aaron

Best of all

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2013

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This pocket sized phrase book is the best I've used. Most importantly it has a mini grammar section so you can actually construct phrases, questions, answers, etc. Not just stock phrases. And a small but useful dictionary. With this you can speak just like Tarzan or Jane in just a matter of days and be understood.And, it fits in your pocket.

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Pat

Not what I hoped for this time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2012

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This book is really comprehensive, but it is for younger eyes. It is so small and the writing so small. I am not sure it will be of use to me. But, the book arrived quickly. My problem is not with the purchase, just my own old eyes!

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WERWOLF777

THE BEST TURKISH PHRASEBOOK!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2007

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NEED I SAY MORE?, IT'S GOT A THE LATEST AND MOST ACCURATE INFO.

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Virginia R

A necessity for a traveller to Turkey (but you also need...)

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2001

This book is excellent for many reasons but three are paramount: (1) it includes an EXCELLENT explanation of the grammar, without which I would never have been able to go beyond memorization to actual comprehension & interaction; (2) it includes Turkish phrases that you will really use, relevant to actual situations you will encounter in Turkey (including conversation on topics like politics and social issues!); (3) the dictionary in the back is truly comprehensive.
If you're travelling to Turkey, you need this book--outside of Istanbul, and off the beaten path, few people speak workable English, and efforts to speak Turkish are not only warmly welcomed, but help tremendously in getting through the day.
There was only one thing I found problematic with this book. The book I was using was NOT the one with the incorrect pronunciation (at least, I don't think so), but I just found the pronunciation (the phonetic rendition of each phrase) really hard to read & use, and I didn't think it produced an accurate rendition of Turkish sounds (if I just read the phonetic phrase, no one would have understood me).
My strong recommendation to other prospective travellers: also get the "Berlitz Turkish Phrasebook" with its audiotape, and listen to the tape about a thousand times--then you won't need the pronunciation guide--you'll know how to pronounce the Turkish words, and more important still, you'll be able to hear & understand quickly-spoken Turkish. You will, however, still need this Lonely Planet phrasebook for your actual travel in Turkey, because the Berlitz one has some fatal flaws (read my review of that book for more details).
Two suggestions for the authors: 1) If you create an audiotape to go with your book, people wouldn't have to buy the silly Berlitz audiotape to learn how to listen & speak! 2) There was one section in the Berlitz book that I really thought was useful: a diagram of a car and labels for all its parts. The same might be good for a bicycle too. Just a thought.
In sum, this phrasebook is a necessity for the traveller, and since they apparently read these reviews, I would like to thank the authors for helping to make my trip to Turkey one of the best of my life.

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JojoB

Turkish Over Easy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2014

I bought this years ago but wanted to leave feedback on it. I was engaged to a man from Istanbul ... (no this isn't the start of a joke)... & wanted to learn some words & phrases to help me out because we were talking about going to visit his family (gulp!) in Turkey. The book really helped & I had post-it notes ALL over the place. He was surprised how much I picked up because I could understand when he was talking to his Turkish friends. It's not an easy language to learn. p.s. The book was great but the relationship fizzled.

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RTZNJay Griffin

better than nothing, but preferred Berlitz Turkish phrasebook

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2004

In the bookstore, I compared this Lonely Planet Turkish with the newer Berlitz Turkish phrasebook/dictionary. Even though Tom, the writer is an expert, I bought the Berlitz offering instead of this LP product. LP Turkish phrasebook does have a nice attractive layout and reasonably comprehensive entries. It's good to be able to compare similar products but LP didn't win in this comparison for me.

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Lonely Planet Pronounciation Warning..

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2000

Well we were headed to Turkey so we obtained The Lonely Planet book on Istanbul. No problems there and we read up on the phrases and did some practice with the phonetics..
Then we said, Well.. there is a New Lonely Planet Phrase Book for Turkish and so we brought that and really did a lot of practice and memory work for the trip.
Well, two hours inside Turkey and we realized that the Phrase Book is wrong.. in particular the phonetic for that odd turkish i (without the dot) !!
It appears that the Lonely Planet Istanbul version is the accurate one.
Eg: Lonely Planet Istanbul Pg 207 : How are you = NAHS suhl suh nuhz (Correct by the way)
Lonely Planet Turkish Phrase Book Pg 36 : How are you = nah sihl sih nihz ( Not only wrong but embarrassingly so)
Unfortunately this renders the Turkish Phrasebook by Lonely Planet a waste of effort as this incorrect use of the short i (without the dot) is perpetuated throughout the phrasebook and will confuse and embarrass the user.
My Turkish friends were rolling on the floor laughing at the wierd combinations of using these form incorrectly.. How would you sound in english if you were told to pronounce the A sound as an O sound instead :0)
Lonely Planet should be aware of the significant descrepancy between the two books and how they differ in pronouncing this important sound in Turkish. They both can't be right :0)

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Slug !

Turkish (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 17, 2013

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As a used item it is in very good condition , a very in depth phrasebook and very much like a Collins Dictionary if I dare say ! Am busy 'swotting' for a future trip to Turkey and finding it as easy as A B C ! I have nothing to complain about as the main 'how do you do's' are highlighted in the book by the previous owner , I know this wont be the case with other books but I feel as though I have fallen on to a winner here ! Good luck with your purchases !

Miss J Voronova

not great though.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 10, 2014

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ok book, not great though.

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