When and Why Use Phrasebooks
If you are a beginner and want to start familiarising yourself with the language.
To learn basic phrases to start speaking.
To obviously travel to a country that speaks a language you don’t know.
If you live in that country, to go out and about and be able to communicate with people while you are still learning the language.
To be able to chat with people on the internet and ask them questions, or talk about what you like, your life, etc.
To start learning the structure and grammar of the language. Most books even come with a grammar introduction.
It’s a really cheap way to get materials to study.
You can turn it into flashcards for vocab, and you’ll be learning important stuff.
To know how they say things.
To have in your pocket/bag at all times, and open when you are in the bus, or waiting somewhere without nothing else to do. They are small so they are easy to carry around, and you can get some practice like that.
To reference when you are not sure how to formulate a common question, all the basic (and not that basic) stuff will be there. Everything you need in your daily ife pretty much.
And last but not least, everybody knows that these tiny phrasebooks are made to buy them all and collect them “just in case”!
