Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet's Japanese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Japanese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Learn your sushi from your sake, enjoy an elaborate tea ceremony, and navigate elaborate transit maps, all with your trusted travel companion.

Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!

Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms, and multiple meanings.

Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder.

Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips.

Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary.

Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology.

Meet friends with conversation starter phrases.

Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides.

Inside Lonely Planet's Japanese Phrasebook and Dictionary:

Full-colour throughout.

User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories.

Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance, on-the-fly cues.

Convenient features include:

• 5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go
• 10 Ways to Start a Sentence
• 10 Phrases to Sound like a Local
• Listen For - phrases you may hear
• Look For - phrases you may see on signs
• Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases
• QandA - suggested answers to questions asked

Covers:

Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules.

Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport.

Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather.

Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions.

Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients.

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Japanese Phrasebook and Dictionary, a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance; great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day.

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