Quechua Phrasebook 3

Trekking in the Andes will give your legs a workout, and this phrasebook will work your conversational skills at the same time. Word up on the Native American language of South America: you don't want to be tongue-tied on a mountain and have to charade'I have a cramp', do you?

Lonely Planet's Quechua Phrasebook is your passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for hiking directions, learn about local culture and shop at markets with confidence- all with your trusted travel companion.

This Quechua Phrasebook focuses on cultural understanding and travel etiquette. Tips are included for conversations, market shopping and defining local items, and grammar and punctuation chapters are featured.

Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!

Learn Quechua with our simple to use phrasebook. It is a handy passport to cultural immersion while exploring new geographies. Impress the locals with confidence. Categories include Food, Useful Phrases, Numbers, Time, etc.

Legs aching and feeling ravenous from the trek, you wonder if you'll be pitching your karpa from one more night. Suddenly the truck stops and it's clear that "lawa" and "kuka mati" are on the cards. "'Anay Tayta'" you say gratefully with a full belly, and that's when your dinner host offers you a bed for the night... You realize it's true - a few Quechua words can work wonders! In This Guide: Your key to genuine encounters with Quechua speakers.Cover all your travel needs in the Andes - practical and cultural.Sections on trekking, homestays and Andean cuisine.Detailed grammar chapter helps you harness the language.Easy-to-use pronunciation guide throughout.

A Detailed and Concise Quechua (Runasimi) Phrasebook that includes an Extensive Grammar Section, a Categorized Dictionary & a Daily Useful Phrases Section. This Book is the Perfect Tool to utilize while traveling in the Andean Regions of South America.

This phrasebook contains a guide to English and Spanish pronunciation and grammar, paired with a guide to Quechua pronunciation and grammar, sample phrases, and sentences arranged by topic. This phrasebook pairs two of the eight most used languages in the world, English and Spanish, with Quechua, a language which is in wide use in South America. This book follows the orthography of Southern Quechua, spoken in Bolivia and across much of Peru. It is by far the most widely used dialect and often referred to as "Hanan Runasimi." This phrasebook is based on our Words R Us system, a multilingual implementation of Wordnet. It is the only initiative to pair Quechua with English via Wordnet. Currently we have over 28,000 word pairs in our Quechua / English / Spanish dictionary.