A Somali-English Phrasebook for Public Service Workers
The first phrasebook of its kind for public service workers, it is structured around five dialogues on housing, policing, health centre, a primary school and a law centre contexts.The dialogues contain commonly used public service words and phrases. A set of key words precede each dialogue. It is aimed to help phrasebook users understand how words are used in the dialogues.
There are two vocabulary lists--Somali-English, and English-Somali as well as a list of hundred commonly used verbs—in the phrasebook in addition to a limited exposure to basic Somali language grammar.
Price: £14
Organisations that buy more three copies will have a 30% discount.
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