Product Description

From the monasteries of northern Moldavia to the Danube Delta to Dracula's homeland, Transylvania, Romania offers a large variety of exciting activities to its visitors.

The aim of this dictionary and phrasebook is to supply the American tourist or businessperson visiting Romania with certain conversational formulas indispensable for starting a conversation and carrying it on in a natural manner. The generality of the phrases means that they can be used in many different situations. The author also provides extensive historical and cultural background.

• Pronunciation guide
• Basic grammar
• 5,500 dictionary entries
• Essential phrases

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112748 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 253 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, Romanian

About the Author
Mihai Miroiu was born and raised in Romania, and holds a doctorate degree in English from the University of Bucharest. He now teaches English literature at Elmira College, after a sojourn at Cornell University as a Fulbright scholar. He is also the author of Romanian-English/English-Romanian Standard Dictionary and Romanian Conversation Guide, both published by Hippocrene Books, as well as many articles and translations. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Customer Reviews

We just left it behind
This was the only book we took on a recent visit to Romania. We thought that it would work very well as it seemed comprehensive and slim for travel. When we actually tried to use it everyday it was better than nothing but practically useless. Many of the words that should have been in the translation part could only be found in the phrasebook part. Not at all useful when struggling to put a sentence together. This happened so often that we just left it behind in the hotel rather than continue on with it. I think that for what it purported itself to be, it is a total failure.

Great for the 1950's
I started using this dictionary believing it to be a simple and straightforward way of learning some simple words in Romanian.

However, having learned a number of nouns I then discovered that many of them were old words, no longer used. If you want to learn Romanian that most Romanians will understand then don't use this book.

Nu bine!

Nice book!
Although it may seem funny, I bought this book to improve my English (I am a native speaker of Romanian) and found it helpful. However, if you want more than elementary Romanian I would suggest to buy some English-Romanian/ Romanian-English dictionaries, phrase books, and grammar books published in Romania which are far more complete and accurate (there are now many Romanian online bookstores, just google "editura").