num_pages: 160
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 
 
language: English
title: Bengali Phrasebook
titlecomplete: Bengali Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)
genres: Bangladesh, Reference, Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 3
series: Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
publisher: Lonely Planet