Insight Guides: Explore Berlin

Insight Guides

• Verlag: Insight
• ISBN:
  9781780059952
• Thema: Desarrollo personal
• Thema: Viajes

Take a fresh approach to Berlin with this brand new Explore guide. Lavishly illustrated in full colour, this book features 14 irresistible self-guided walks and tours, written by a local expert and packed with great insider tips. Whether you are new to the city or a repeat visitor, whatever your interests, and however long your stay, this book is the perfect companion, showing you the smartest way to link the sights and taking you beyond the beaten tourist track. All the walks and tours come with clear, easy-to-follow full-colour maps. A 'Key Facts' box at the start of each tour highlights the recommended time needed to enjoy it to the full, plus the distance covered and a start and end point; all this makes it simple to find the perfect tour for the time you have to spare. Try some of the hand-picked places to eat and drink and sleep, or refer to the clearly organised A-Z of practical information to get to grips with the city.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Language

German is the native language of about 100 million people, but not all of them live in continental Europe. As well as Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Belgium and some small German enclaves in eastern Europe, there are also German-speaking communities in North America, South America and South Africa.

In terms of language groups, German and English are both part of the West Germanic languages, together with Dutch, Frisian, Flemish and Afrikaans, but while a Dutch person and a German may be able to communicate quite effectively, an English peron and a German are unlikely to make much progress, despite the many similarities between the two languages. A quick glance at the numbers from one to ten will prove that point immediately.

Anyone who learnt Latin at school will be familiar with some of the difficulties that the German language presents to foreigners: nouns have three genders and four cases, verbs are conjugated, pronouns are followed by one of three cases, the word order in sentences is governed by some complicated rules and there are five different ways that you can say ‘the’. The only compensation is that pronunciation is always perfectly consistent with the spelling.

Although many young people speak English throughout Germany and are always keen to try it out on visitors, there are many parts of the country, particularly in the east, where a smat...