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German At a Glance Foreign Language Phrasebook
German at a Glance is a traveller’s phrasebook in the long-running At a Glance series: the essential German phrases for a trip, organised by situation and supported by a compact dictionary section, in a book made to be used standing up — at a ticket window, a café counter, a platform.
Its phrase sections follow a journey: greetings and introductions, transport, accommodation, eating and drinking, shopping, sightseeing, money, health, and emergencies, with pronunciation guidance so the phrases can be said, not just shown. A two-way mini-dictionary at the back covers the words travel throws up between the set phrases.
It is for tourists, business travellers, exchange students, and first-time visitors to Germany, Austria, and German Switzerland who want a single small book that answers nearly every ‘how do I say…’ of a trip.
The At a Glance format survives because it respects the traveller’s reality: phrases must be findable in seconds, pronounceable by a beginner, and correct enough to be understood the first time. This German edition adds the details that separate a phrasebook from a wordlist — the polite forms German expects, the numbers and times rendered as Germans say them, menu and sign vocabulary for the reading a trip constantly demands, and cultural notes where a phrase carries more than its words. The dictionary section makes the book a two-way tool: German signs and menus decode into English, and English needs encode into German. Carried through one trip, it typically returns home annotated, dog-eared, and quietly responsible for a dozen small successes.
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About This Book
Phrasebooks are travel equipment, and the At a Glance series is among the most carried equipment in publishing: small, systematic, and built around the situations a traveller is guaranteed to meet. This German volume applies the formula to the German-speaking world, where a visitor’s phrases are received with an appreciation that makes them doubly worth learning.
What Travellers Will Find
Phrases for Every Stage of a Trip
Arrival and transport, hotels and hostels, restaurants and beer gardens, shops and markets, sights and tickets, post and phones — the phrase sections walk the trip in order, each phrase in German with pronunciation help and English alongside.
The Practical Vocabulary of Travel
Numbers, prices, times, dates, directions, and the reading vocabulary of signs, notices, and menus — the German a traveller must decode even more often than they must speak it, given a full share of the book.
Help When Things Go Wrong
The health, emergency, and officialdom phrases nobody hopes to use: pharmacy and doctor, lost property, police, breakdowns, and the sentences that summon help precisely. Their presence, unused, is half the comfort a phrasebook sells.
Key Features
The two-part design is the feature: situation phrases for speaking, a compact bilingual dictionary for everything else. Series-standard pronunciation guidance is the second — At a Glance phrases are written to be said aloud by people who do not speak the language, and it shows in how rarely they fail.
Who This Book Is For
It is for tourists and city-break travellers in German-speaking Europe, rail pass travellers, business visitors with free evenings, exchange and school-trip students, and anyone collecting a German speaker’s goodwill one correct phrase at a time.
How to Use This Book
Read the phrase sections before each stage of the trip — tomorrow’s trains tonight, the restaurant pages before dinner — and practise the ten phrases you are likeliest to say aloud. In the moment, do not hesitate to read from the page or show it; the book is designed for exactly that use, and Germans will take it as the compliment it is.
Related Books
Another traveller’s selection is Just Enough German Phrases. Full dialogues for longer exchanges are in the German Conversation Book.
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