With this fun visual guide, just follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud. Soon you’ll be speaking simple German words and phrases well enough to be understood by most native speakers. Try asking someone their name: Vee Highs An Zee? Or tell them to "Be patient": Get Dual Dig.

A second volume of popular Spanish words and phrases. This second volume of Spanish terms will help you more easily communicate with native Spanish speakers at home or abroad. Just follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud. Soon you’ll be speaking simple Spanish words and phrases well enough to be understood—such as, Is everybody happy? (Ace Tom Owes Cone 10 Toes?); or, What would you like? (Kay Key Ed Ace?). The simple icons are easy to follow and this pocket-sized guide is easy to carry with you. It will give you the basic words and phrases you need either while traveling or hereat home—asking directions, ordering food at a restaurant, shopping. And most of all . . . it’s just plain fun!

Are you a holy terror? Are you a go-boy? Could you live on the skin of a rasher? Or are you so hungry that you eat a farmer's arse through a hedge? When you're on the razz, do you get so buckled, crippled and scuttered that you can't get your back outa the scratcher in the morning? Never mind the answers: if you understand the questions you are in Slanguage country. If you don't, you need to be. This is the dictionary that glosses the words that real Irish people use in the streets each day, every day. Slang is elusive. Some words and phrases are always there. Others slip in and out of usage according to the whims of fashion. This expanded edition of the standard dictionary of Irish slang includes many entries not in the 1997 edition. It has dropped a few that have fallen out of favour and has revised others. In all, this edition is 25 per cent longer than its predecessor. It will confirm Bernard Share's invaluable book in its position as the major work of its kind, combining scholarship and a keen sense of fun. "Slanguage" does justice to it by taking it seriously, but not too seriously.

Learn hundreds of Russian words and phrases the fun and unique Slanguage way! This latest volume in the popular Slanguage series is geared toward helping you learn how to speak Russian, either for your next trip to Moscow or to talk with your great aunt Zlata from the old country. Just follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud. Soon you’ll be speaking simple Russian words and phrases well enough to be understood—such as Good evening (Doe Bray Vee Sure) and How are you? (Cock Tee). The simple icons are easy to follow and this pocket-sized guide is easy to carry with you. It will give you the basic words and phrases you need for greeting people, asking directions, ordering food at a restaurant, shopping, and dozens of other common situations. And best of all, it’s a fun and quick way to learn Russian! Mike Ellis is a Web designer with expertise in e-commerce, online marketing, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. He runs the popular Web site www.slanguage.com and is the author of eleven previous Slanguage books. Mike helps run a youth athletic league and loves coaching kids in his spare time. He lives with his family near Philadelphia.

The Slanguage Dictionary: Caribbean and Latin American Slang Words and Phrases is just that; a dictionary of slang words translated to English. Whether for entertainment or to expand your knowledge, this reference guide has slang covered from Puerto Rico to Panama. Also includes a pronunciation guide for Standard Spanish, Caribbean Spanish and Jamaican Patois.

Learn simple French in a snap! With this fun visual guide, simply follow the illustrated prompts and read the English words out loud with emphasis on the words in red: soon you'll be speaking French! Learn to be polite by saying "please": "See Voo Play" (S'il vous plaît). Or let someone know what a "good idea" that was: "Set Tune Bunny Day" (C'est une bonne idée). The simple icons are easy to follow and this pocket-sized guide is easy to carry with you. It will give you the basic phrases you need to get around while traveling, whether asking directions, ordering food at a restaurant, or shopping. But most of all, it’s just plain fun!

A worldwide guide to slang, from America's favorite slangologist, and creator of one of the Internet's most popular websites--voted by Wired as one of the top five fun sites of 1998 Ask for a pop in Manhattan and you'll probably be punched in the face. The same request for a soda in Chicago, however, will get you Coketm. And if you're going to the gym in New York, take your sneakers, but in Pittsburgh, grab your tennis shoes. Every day new words are born that reflect who we are and where we live. Now, slang expert Mike Ellis has compiled an authoritative yet highly amusing treasury of slang that has infiltrated every walk of life. Already widely known for his articles in the national press (The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wired magazine) as well as for his hugely popular website, Ellis has a gift for zooming in on the often humorous, ironic, and colorful way that we put our spin on the native tongue. As funny as it is linguistically precise, Slanguage is an up-to-the-minute guide to the changing face of language. In Slanguage, Mike Ellis explores: Slang of the past (remember "Sock it to me") Silicon Valley Slang (do you have a programmer's butt) Slang for the foreign traveler