Can anyone identify this photographic travel dictionary / phrasebook?
May 25, 2006 1:24 PM Subscribe
My partner and I once saw a photographic phrasebook / dictionary while at the National Gallery in Canberra, Australia allowing the language impaired to point to an image. Does anyone know of the book we're referring to?
(An Amazon ref would be grand)
Instead of referring to text, it allowed you to point at a picture instead (eg. toothbrush, battery). As we're travelling for over a year in many different countries we'd like to get hold of it to make communication a little easier.
The only other clue that we have to the identity of the book is that it was spiral bound.
Has anyone used this book or something similar whilst travelling? What was your experience with it?
Instead of referring to text, it allowed you to point at a picture instead (eg. toothbrush, battery). As we're travelling for over a year in many different countries we'd like to get hold of it to make communication a little easier.
The only other clue that we have to the identity of the book is that it was spiral bound.
Has anyone used this book or something similar whilst travelling? What was your experience with it?
If you can't find it, why not make your own? Cut pictures / photos out of magazines and stick them in a notebook. That way you can make it relevant to you.
Great idea though. Especially if you're not very good at mime!
posted by MaJumelleDiabolique at 2:18 PM on May 25, 2006
Great idea though. Especially if you're not very good at mime!
posted by MaJumelleDiabolique at 2:18 PM on May 25, 2006
i've seen books of these in regular bookstores and anywhere they carry travel info.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3980313026/
posted by nyanko at 3:58 PM on May 25, 2006
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3980313026/
posted by nyanko at 3:58 PM on May 25, 2006
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posted by xsquared-1 at 1:59 PM on May 25, 2006