Authors: Yuki Shimada
ISBN-13: 9780794600488, ISBN-10: 0794600484
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
An engineer turned floral artist, Sakul Intakul is the owner of Sakul Intakul Studio, a design studio, and Sakul Flowers, a flower shop in Bangkok. He is a regular contributor of magazine articles, and he arranges flowers for the Queen of Thailand and many leading hotels and restaurants in Bangkok.
Wongvipa Devahastin na Ayudhya was educated at the Rajinee Lyceum, a school sponsored by the royal family in Bangkok, where she learned the Thai arts of flower display and decoration. She is a self-taught interior designer, a skilled gardener, and the co-author of Contemporary Thai.
The Periplus Pocket Dictionaries are ideal for students and travelers, covering all the words needed for everyday situations andbasic travel. They were designed by academics and translators to fit the needs of people traveling to a foreign countrywho may not want to spend hours in class learning a new language.
Each dictionary features over 3,000 entries in each directionboth to and from Englishromanized forms and the authentic script where applicable, a brief guide to pronunciation, general vocabulary appropriate for beginners and intermediates, different senses of the same word clearly distinguished by explanatory glosses, and clear layout and readable type.
Author Biography: Yuki Shimada is a native speaker of Japanese; she holds an M.A. in Japanese Translating and Interpreting from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.