The best available guide to the pidgins and creols of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and Torres Strait. These fascinating languages have developed from English, so you'll recognize plenty of words, but their grammar, sentence structure and extensive vocabularies mean that you'll find this phrasebook invaluable in understanding the language around you.In This Guide:Wherever you travel in the region, and despite the huge numbers of local languages, you can still communicate easily.Cultural tips throughout.Get around without a hitch.

Pidgin: The Languages Of Oceania (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

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Angelo, Denise

Ober, Dana

Balzer, Trevor

Mulhausler, Peter

Monaghan, Paul

Lee, Ernie

Australia & South Pacific

Lonely Planet

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Toss another shrimp on the barbie, crack open a tinny or pour yourself a chardy while you traverse Australia's vast expanse of true blue, fair dinkum Aussie lingo - from cosmopolitan communique to surf slang, outback jargon and some of the world's oldest indigenous languages. C'mon, avagoyermug!
Features a comprehensive section on Australia's impressive array of indigenous languages.
Lonely Planet's Language &amp; Culture series goes behind the scenes of languages you thought you knew. Get into the culture and humour behind common - and not so common - English expressions and learn about the local languages that inspired them.
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Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Denise Angelo, Peter Austin, Barry Blake, Susan Butler, Carolyn Coleman, Jane Curtain, Alan Dench, Mark Newbrook, Dana Ober, Paul Smitz, Jenny Tindale, Dana Ober, and Melanie Wilkinson.
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Lonely Planet Australian Language & Culture (Phrasebook)

Austin, Peter

Blake, Barry

Butler, Susan

Coleman, Carolyn

Curtain, Jane

Dench, Alan

Newbrook, Mark

Smitz, Paul

Tindale, Jenny

Wilkinson, Melanie

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