A Must Have To Translate A German Menu:
My husband ordered this Langenscheidt Pocket German Dictionary German to English and English to German before we left for our trip last summer to Europe. He had a few college courses in German and a summer semester aboard in Salzburg. We took a 10-day driving trip of Germany and Austria proceeding from Hamburg to Potsdam to Weimar to Nuremberg to Salzburg to Munich to Fulda and back to Hamburg. Driving the autobahn we frequently ate lunch at McDonalds or Burger King at an auto hof or on the road itself. Sometimes we dined at a food outlet that served pasta cafeteria-style. Gary looked up the proper terminology to ask the servers for pasta with sausage or without. He asked for a roll with butter. At dinner we used the dictionary to translate menus. For instance in Weimar at the Dorint they had a restaurant specializing in Thuringian food. Gary got the special. But he wanted to find out what was in it first. It turned out to be a smorgasbord of various kinds of sausage and cheese with dark brown bread. It’s one of my best snapshots of the trip, but it wouldn’t have been possible without this book.
My husband ordered this Langenscheidt Pocket German Dictionary German to English and English to German before we left for our trip last summer to Europe. He had a few college courses in German and a summer semester aboard in Salzburg. We took a 10-day driving trip of Germany and Austria proceeding from Hamburg to Potsdam to Weimar to Nuremberg to Salzburg to Munich to Fulda and back to Hamburg. Driving the autobahn we frequently ate lunch at McDonalds or Burger King at an auto hof or on the road itself. Sometimes we dined at a food outlet that served pasta cafeteria-style. Gary looked up the proper terminology to ask the servers for pasta with sausage or without. He asked for a roll with butter. At dinner we used the dictionary to translate menus. For instance in Weimar at the Dorint they had a restaurant specializing in Thuringian food. Gary got the special. But he wanted to find out what was in it first. It turned out to be a smorgasbord of various kinds of sausage and cheese with dark brown bread. It’s one of my best snapshots of the trip, but it wouldn’t have been possible without this book.
Note:Not as many people in Germany spoke English as I had assumed. And the English they spoke was less than perfect. It was hard to get around without speaking some German.