Mauritius Its Creole Language The Ultimate Creole Phrase Book And Dictionary Third Edition Third Edition Jacques K Lee by Jacques K. Lee 9781854250988, 1854250981 instant download after payment.

Some 50,000 Britons are expected to visit Mauritius this year. In Mauritius: Its Creole Language, they will find that Mauritian Creole is probably the easiest language they have ever learned.
Here is a language that you can learn to speak in weeks and feel no apprehension about making mistakes in speaking. Not only will you find this colourful pidgin French great fun, but also fascinating, if at times a little crazy, but above all it is simple.
In which language can you say something like bon terib (good terrible), meaning terribly good, and still make sense
without breaking any grammatical rule? You simply cannot make any mistakes when speaking Mauritian Creole - the
language has no grammatical or other rules; no verbs to learn or conjugate, no syntax or orthography. Is this the perfect language for the lazy linguist?
Part One is for those who simply want to have a ‘holiday knowledge’ of Creole to enable them to go shopping, order food in restaurants and have simple conversation with the islanders.
Part Two will appeal especially to readers who have an interest in languages. It contains a history of Mauritius fromthe perspective of its people and how their various languages evolved into the lingua franca of the country. It gives the origin of many words, typical Creole idioms and other terms, recent additions and so on. The book also contains the first and only English-Creole dictionary.
This is not just a phrase book but all you need to know about Mauritian Creole in a nutshell.