The experience presented by the author in his report call up a need, when one encounters another culture, to learn some words of the language of the respective culture in order to ease or try to overcome the feeling of being a foreigner – to establish communication with the people defined by a different language. In the manuscript collections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, among the works from the time of the Turks’ presence on the Balkans, there are a significant number of small notebooks which, with regard to their content, may be called small “bilingual dictionaries”.