Just published: Nepali phrasebook with audio

I'm very happy to announce that I have just published my second audio language phrasebook – titled Nepali: Essential phrases with audio (Apple iBook format).

The book contains a really useful selection of phrases and vocabulary for people visiting the country. If you haven't been there, you should go – it's stunningly beautiful and the people are generally lovely.

For the book, I employed a professional, smoooooth voiceover artist and a very well-educated Nepali translator.

I divided the phrases into the standard travel phrasebook chapters, like basics, greetings, food, drink, transport, hotels, shopping etc, but also included sections for chatting with locals, trekking and health & emergencies (well, it is the Himalayas, after all).

The book is simple to use: every Nepali word or phrase comes with an audio button, so you just find the phrase you want to learn and press the button to hear the words spoken by a native Nepali (called Dorjee!). I opted to avoid the Nepali script to keep things simple, and included the English with the Nepali transliterated into Roman script. See this example:

The book can be downloaded from the US iBook Store here, and the UK store here. However, the book is available on all 51 stores worldwide. If the links here don't work, just search the store for "Daniel Nepali" from your iBooks app and that will find it.

You will need an iPad to use the book (requires iBooks 3.0 or later, and iOS 5.1+). The book can be downloaded onto Macs too ( requires iBooks 1.0 or later, OS X 10.9+).

If you're heading to Nepal, why not load it onto your iPad and take it with you? Out of the cities, especially, it's very useful – and good manners – to have some basic phrases with which to communicate with the local people. And having the audio buttons means you'll have no issues with poor pronunciation.

They are so friendly that they can get a little sad if they can't speak to you. I experienced this in the west of the country, where tourists are still rare and a bit of a treat.

Or if you're planning a trip to Thailand, why not check out my Thai audio phrasebook?