The phrasebooks are based on the Oxford Phrasebank and Wordbank, specially designed for travel reference. The phrasebook features translations of core vocabulary from and to all of the included languages, and consist of two separate parts - Phrasebank in each language and Wordbank of core terms.

Phrasebank

• Included languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
• Coverage of 3,000 base phrases (per language), 5,000 expanded phrases (excluding templates) and 20,000 expanded phrases (including templates)
• Compressed format reducing storage space for phrase variants
• 9 topics/15 subtopics
• Extension of selected phrases using 12 template lists
• Topics - Diversions, Eating Out, Entertainment, Hotel, Money, Problems, Tourist, Transport, Miscellaneous
• Templates - Body Parts, Cardinal Numbers, Clock Time, Colours, Currencies, Dates, Days of Week, Languages, Months, Nationalities, Ordinal Numbers, Places

Wordbank

• Coverage of 17,500 core terms
• All translations in the Wordbank are provided along with appropriate part of speech and gender information

The Oxford Multilanguage Phrasebank and Wordbank

These suite of phrasebooks is based on the Oxford Multilingual Phrasebank and Wordbank and are here presented in MSPhrase electronic format. MSPhrase offers best experience in up-to-the-minute reference.

• 9 languages covered (including regional variants)
• UK English, US English, French, German, Italian, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese
• Mobile phrasebooks available for each of the language parings of the languages above