Book Description
Order a meal, catch an auto-rickshaw, chat with the locals, bargain for souvenirs - and do it all in Bengali! This phrasebook gives you easy-to-pronounce phonetic transcriptions as well as Bengali script with every phrase. Other features include thorough pronunciation and grammar guides and a comprehensive vocabulary section to make communication even easier. essential companion for any traveller to West Bengal and Bangladesh from bargaining to bureaucracy - full of day-to-day expressions to get you by fascinating information and vocabulary on festivals, religious ideas and terms, sightseeing and getting to know people script and transliteration throughout sections on pronunciation and grammar thumb tabs and comprehensive index for fast, easy reference

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Order a meal, catch an auto-rickshaw, chat with the locals, bargain for souvenirs - and do it all in Bengali! This phrasebook gives you easy-to-pronounce phonetic transcriptions as well as Bengali script with every phrase. Other features include thorough pronunciation and grammar guides and a comprehensive vocabulary section to make communication even easier.