Sentence examples for a phrase book from inspiring English sources

If you do not speak Spanish, take a phrase book.

Second, get a phrase book in which key phrases are written out in large-font Chinese characters.

It was a phrase book of French and German intended for the use of British and Canadian soldiers.

As I walked through the show, these aids served me the way a phrase book does in a foreign country.

It doesn't take a phrase book to Pinterland to decode the menace behind the rhetoric.

It sounded like a question and answer in a phrase book.

Collett, N. A. A grammar, phrase book and vocabulary of Baluchi : (as spoken in the Sultanate of Oman).

Besides, Swan warns, "overemphasizing 'scripts' in our teaching can lead to a phrase-book approach, where formulaic learning is privileged and the more generative parts of language — in particular the grammatical system — are backgrounded".

Fodor and Pylyshyn bring out the force of this psychological fact by comparing learning languages the way we actually do with learning a language by memorizing a huge phrase book.

The erstwhile bureau chief in New Delhi or Cairo, chatting with diplomats over rum punches on the veranda, is now an eager kid with a laptop and an Arabic phrase book in her backpack.

You'll be dealing with different languages, so learning a few phrases or picking up a slim phrase book wouldn't hurt, especially if you're visiting more out-of-the-way spots.