Eyewitness Travel Phrase Book: Arabic

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Summary: Indispensible Convienently-sized Book Packs Light
Review: This tiny book is not only easy to pack but should be considered as essential to a trip as toothpaste. Like the Eyewitness Travel Guides, this pocket-sized book (128 pages) has a concise format which succintly instructs the use of phrases for any of the common travel/tourist situations. Importantly, cross-cultural notes enlighten one to the particulars of Arabic culture. Each of the other sections is prefaced by an explanatory page which either recites the grammatical rules for mking a specific type of verbal inquiry, i.e. telling time, or describes different Arabic facilities and traveler's undertakings which may be unfamiliar to those with little knowledge of the Arab world. The book is peppered with phrases, written both in Arabic and phonetically for each of the eighteen topics. The topics include matters like 'Health', 'Shopping', 'Hotels', 'Air and Train Travel etc. and includes an English to Arabic dictionary in the back. I rate this book 4 stars only because the version I bought does not contain the audio cassette. Listening and hearing the words spoken with the correct pronunciation and inflection would make the book all the more valuble.