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Start reading Easy Burmese on the way to the airport and begin communicating as soon as you land! Specially designed for beginning learners who have no prior knowledge of the language, Easy Burmese is fully Romanised throughout and focused on conversational rather than written Burmese. For a fraction of the cost of expensive language products, this book introduces all the basics of the language with an emphasis on practical daily conversations and vocabulary. A complete language course and pocket dictionary in one, Easy Burmese includes: Free, downloadable native-speaker audio recordings to help you master correct pronunciation and intonation; Structured, progressive lessons to help you build confidence and fluency quickly; Practical dialogues focused on daily communication; Manga illustrations to facilitate memorization; Useful notes on the Burmese script and pronunciation; Greetings, requests, honorific forms and etiquette tips; A dictionary of commonly-used words and phrases. Kenneth Wong, a translator, author, and native Burmese speaker who emigrated to the United States, is the ideal guide for travellers who want to master spoken Burmese fast.

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This practical Burmese phrasebook and dictionary puts all the most important Burmese words and phrases in the palm of your hand.It contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Burmese in any setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Burmese or traveling to Myanmar, it also contains a beginners guide to the Burmese language, allowing for a more in-depth understanding than a typical Burmese phrasebook or Burmese dictionary. The phrasebook is organized by situations where one might need to speak Burmese such as: at the hotel, in a taxi, using numbers, etc. Say it like it is: A pronunciation guide for each phrase Meet and greet: The right greeting for every situation A little respect, please: Use the correct personal titles to address people Who, what, where, why, when: Requesting things and asking questions The ties that bind: Talking about your family What time/day is it? Telling time and days of the week How to read menus and important road signs Travel vocabulary and useful expressions: Getting to the airport Buses, taxis, and trains Hotels and resorts Eating and drinking Sightseeing Health emergencies Popular tourist spots Toilets and restrooms Shopping and money Telephone and internet Numbers and counting Seasons and weather

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After living in the United States for over a decade, Kenneth Wong returns to his native Burma - a country fraught with political upheaval and laden with superstition - to face the cultural specters of his own past and the spirit of a land trapped in time. In the tradition of Orwell, Maugham and Theroux, Wong shows Burma as an exotic place that invites, frightens, teases and haunts citizens and visitors alike with its unique mixture of ill-kept Edwardian structures, pockmarked English mansions, and glittering Buddhist temples.

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Database technology is an important subject in Computer Science. Every large company and nation needs a database to store information. The technology has evolved from file systems in the 60’s, to Hierarchical and Network databases in the 70’s, to relational databases in the 80’s, object-oriented databases in the 90’s, and to XML documents and NoSQL today. As a result, there is a need to reengineer and update old databases into new databases. This book presents solutions for this task.In this fourth edition, Chapter 9 - Heterogeneous Database Connectivity (HDBC) offers a database gateway platform for companies to communicate with each other not only with their data, but also via their database. The ability of sharing a database can contribute to the applications of Big Data and surveys for decision support systems. The HDBC gateway solution collects input from the database, transfers the data into its middleware storage, converts it into a common data format such as XML documents, and then distributes them to the users. HDBC transforms the common data into the target database to meet the user’s requirements, acting like a voltage transformer hub. The voltage transformer converts the voltage to a voltage required by the users. Similarly, HDBC transforms the database to the target database required by the users.This book covers reengineering for data conversion, integration for combining databases and merging databases and expert system rules, normalization for eliminating duplicate data from the database, and above all, HDBC connects all legacy databases to one target database for the users.The authors provide a forum for readers to ask questions and the answers are given by the authors and the other readers on the Internet.

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