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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Kawsay Vida is a course book and interactive multimedia program on DVD for the teaching and learning of the Quechua language from beginner to advanced levels. The course book is based on contemporary Bolivian Quechua, while the multimedia program contains a section on Bolivian Quechua (beginner to intermediate levels) and a section on southern Peruvian Quechua (advanced level). The book provides a practical introduction to spoken Quechua through the medium of English, while the multimedia program offers a choice of English or Spanish as the medium of instruction. The video clips introduce us to Quechua speakers in the valleys of Northern Potosí (Bolivia) and Cuzco (Peru), giving a sense of immediacy that the printed page cannot achieve, and highlighting the social and cultural settings in which the language is spoken. The DVD is available for both PC and Macintosh platforms. The book contains twenty-two units of study. As students work through these, cross-references take them to relevant sections of the DVD. The Bolivian and Peruvian Quechua sections of the multimedia program are divided into thematically and grammatically ordered modules, which introduce users to different aspects of Andean life, while progressing language learning in a structured way. Users engage with the audio, video, and visual material contained in the DVD through a range of interactive exercises, which reinforce listening and comprehension skills. Once familiarity with the language is acquired, the multimedia program may be used independently from the book.

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.