South-East Asian 9 Language Phrasebook
Handy phrasebook covering 9 South-East Asian languages--Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Khmer, Laotian, Malaysian, Thai, and Vietnamese. Includes over 350 of the most commonly-used phrases needed whilst traveling, with a few of the less obvious ones thrown in too.
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Modern Chinese assigns a single symbol, or character, originally derived from pictures, to each word of the vocabulary. Even to read a newspaper you would need to know at least 3000 - 4000! Since 1892, Chinese words other than personal and place-names, have been transliterated phonetically in the English-speaking world, to ease western comprehension; and in this phrasebook we will be using the most widely-used method of transliteration, known as hanyu pinyin.
