Trekking in the Andes will give your legs a workout, and this phrasebook will work your conversational skills at the same time. Word up on the Native American language of South America: you don't want to be tongue-tied on a mountain and have to charade'I have a cramp', do you?

Lonely Planet Quechua Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!

This Quechua Phrasebook focuses on cultural understanding and travel etiquette. Tips are included for conversations, market shopping and defining local items, and grammar and punctuation chapters are featured.

Lonely Planet's Quechua Phrasebook is your passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Quechua phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask for hiking directions, learn about local culture and shop at markets with confidence- all with your trusted travel companion.

Learn Quechua with our simple to use phrasebook. It is a handy passport to cultural immersion while exploring new geographies. Impress the locals with confidence. Categories include Food, Useful Phrases, Numbers, Time, etc.

Legs aching and feeling ravenous from the trek, you wonder if you'll be pitching your karpa from one more night. Suddenly the truck stops and it's clear that "lawa" and "kuka mati" are on the cards. "'Anay Tayta'" you say gratefully with a full belly, and that's when your dinner host offers you a bed for the night... You realize it's true - a few Quechua words can work wonders! In This Guide: Your key to genuine encounters with Quechua speakers.Cover all your travel needs in the Andes - practical and cultural.Sections on trekking, homestays and Andean cuisine.Detailed grammar chapter helps you harness the language.Easy-to-use pronunciation guide throughout.

A Detailed and Concise Quechua (Runasimi) Phrasebook that includes an Extensive Grammar Section, a Categorized Dictionary & a Daily Useful Phrases Section. This Book is the Perfect Tool to utilize while traveling in the Andean Regions of South America.

Quechua is a Native American language spoken by nearly 10 million people, primarily in the Andes region of South America. It is best known as the language of the ancient Inca empire. Alongside Spanish, Quechua is an official language in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. This full-length dictionary includes 3 sections: English-Quechua, Spanish-Quechua, and Quechua-Spanish-English. Spanish is a logical conduit language between Quechua and English and many Quechua words are found in Peruvian Spanish. Ideal for anthropologists, students and travelers, this dictionary features over 11,000 entries as well as an introduction to the Quechua language and basics of grammar.

This dictionary pairs 28,000 words in English with Spanish and Quechua. We have focused on the Southern Bolivia dialect of Quechua and Spanish as commonly used in central and South America. Peru became the first country to recognize Quechua as one of its official languages in 1975. Ecuador conferred official status on the language in its 2006 constitution and in 2009 Bolivia adopted a new constitution that recognized Quechua as one of the official languages of the country. In recent years, Quechua has been introduced in intercultural bilingual education (IBE) in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Currently, the major obstacle to the diffusion of the usage and teaching of Quechua is the lack of written material such as books, newspapers, software, and magazines in the Quechua language. Thus, Quechua, along with Aymara and the minor indigenous languages, remains essentially a spoken language.