Easy Burmese
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Everything you need is in this book, at a fraction of the cost of expensive language products!
Easy Burmese is designed for beginning learners who are planning a visit to Myanmar (Burma) or are already there and wish to learn spoken Burmese quickly and easily – on their own or with a teacher. This book provides all the basics of the spoken language with an emphasis on practical daily conversations and vocabulary. It enables you to begin communicating effectively right from the very first day!
All dialogues are highly practical and authentic and illustrated with manga illustrations for easy memorization. Useful notes on the Burmese script, pronunciation and accent, greetings and requests, sentence structure, vocabulary, verb conjugations, honorific forms, idiomatic expressions and etiquette, dos and don’ts are provided throughout the book.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 mm |
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| Author | Kenneth Wong |
| Author Bio | Born and raised in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), Kenneth Wong studied English at Rangoon University in the 1980s and bore witness to one of the seminal events of his generation the 1988 student-led uprising against the country's military regime. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1989. Wong is the author of A Prayer for Burma, a travelogue and memoir about growing up under military rule. His short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in Myanmar Times, Irrawaddy, San Francisco Chronicle, AGNI, and Grain magazines, among others. He discusses, translates, and shares the rich literary tradition of his homeland in his blog. He has contributed Burmese poetry translations to Eleven Eleven and Wolf magazines and is the author of Survival Burmese. |
| ISBN | 9780804849616 |
| Pages | 224 |
