Just Enough Greek (Just Enough)

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Summary: Just Enough is right...
Review: A pretty handy book. One good point is that it has phonetics so you don't have to learn the cyrillics...even though it's a good idea to. ;) It gives you the basics on how to ask things to get around.

Rating:
Summary: Good little phrasebook
Review: This is a nice compact little phrasebook in the Passport Just Enough series. Besides the phrasebook, it includes an alphabet and pronunciation guide, everyday expressions, a map of Greece, and a considerable reference section of 30 pages containing some grammatical notes on the language, months and dates, numbers, country names, and so on.

The phrasebook portion is divided up into 18 chapters, such as Accommodations, General Shopping, Health, Eating and Drinking Out, Leisure, and there was also Asking if Things Are Allowed, and Crossing the Border. The everyday Expression section contains phrases like "I don't speak Greek," and "Where's the toilet?"--surely an important phrase to know in any language or country. :-)

I only have one complaint, which is that the type looks a little too dark and heavy, just short of looking sort of smudgy, probably because of the cheap paper. There's also the Lonely Planet and Berlitz compact phrasebooks, which are printed on better paper, but they're almost twice the price of this one, since it's only five dollars. But overall this is a fine little phrasebook and the only reason I give it four stars is because of the print. Other than that it's a great value at the price.

Also please note that the Amazon listing of the book says it's out of print and out of stock, but I found a copy recently at a Border's Books. Not sure if that means it's been recently reprinted in a new edition or not, but it might now be available again, so check if you're interested.