Masaccio Pagamento del tributo (1425) Affresco Chiesa di S Flickr Lonely Planet Sinhala (Sri Lanka) Phrasebook & Dictionary. Lonely Planet's Sinhala Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels, offering the most relevant and useful Sinhalese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for recommendations of tucked away beaches, bargain at a vegetable market, and mingle at a local cricket match, all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy to Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation! Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms, and multiple meanings. Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder. Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips. Never get stuck for words with the 3500 word two way, quick reference dictionary. Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology. Meet friends with conversation starter phrases. Get your message across with easy to use pronunciation guides. Inside Lonely Planet's Sinhala Phrasebook and Dictionary: Full colour throughout User friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories Survival phrases inside front cover for at a glance, on the fly cues Convenient features 5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go 10 Ways to Start a Sentence 10 Phrases to Sound like a Local Listen For phrases you may hear Look For phrases you may see on signs Shortcuts easy to remember alternatives to the full phrases Q&A suggested answers to questions asked Covers Basics time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules Practical travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport Social meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather Safe Travel emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Sinhala Phrasebook and Dictionary, a pocket sized comprehensive language guide, provides on the go language assistance. It's great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)