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Although the title is "Pocket Dictionary," this reference actually fills a niche between a bookshelf-sized dictionary and the pocket-sized dictionaries with the tiny print that tourists buy to take on their travels to Europe. At 6-1/8 inches wide x 4 inches tall by 1 inch thick and 11.8 ounces... more info
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I also was in the region as a earlier poster puts it. With this Croatian or Hrvatski dictionary if you please. Firstly this Croatian dictionary is not favored to Serbian, this is blatantly untrue. As well as the fact that the official script/text for Serbian is Cyrillic. The earlier given example of... more info
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This is one of the best I've seen for beginner-intermediate levels for several reasons:
The dictionary offers both hangul and romanization for everything, and this is one of the better romanization schemes I've seen because it works in the morphophonological changes to match real pronunciation.... more info
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For a while, I'd been searching for a good Chinese dictionary to accompany my classes, and the ones I had looked at did not strike me as very well organized. Considering the complexity of written Chinese, organization is everything. A secondary (but still very important) requirement for me was that... more info
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(This reviews refers to the 1998 edition.) It took me a while to find a Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary that I'd be comfortable recommending to beginner and intermediate Japanese language students, but the Langenschedit is the one. With more than 50,000 entries, it has all the common... more info
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I have had several German dictionaries over the last forty years. This one is the best I have owned and used. Often I want a technical term for some specific field or other. Generally I find it in this volume. I am very pleased with it.
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If you need a pocket dictionary, and I mean pocket dictionary, this is the one to buy. I tested many by looking for an uncommon word, which unfortunately I can't remember now, and no other pocket dictionary had it. (Even some of the "big/non-pocket dictionaries" didn't have it.) It has many of the... more info
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I bought this book for my Vietnamese class and it is excellent. The definitions are clear, and provide a wide range of options for translation. This is good, because languages aren't just word codes, and all these options help to give the true meaning of a word. In the Vietnamese-English part, the... more info
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This the best Tukish/English dictionary you can find. I was in Turkey for four months and I taught myself Turkish only by using this dictionary. I must add that I already knew Arabic, Persian and French and that helped a great deal since there are a lot of Arabic and Persian words in Turkish... more info
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Although I had formally studied French for several years, when I took my first trip to France, I used this little book a lot. Before I went into the train station,metro, airport, etc., I reviewed the phrases in those sections. It has vocabulary, phrases, and some cultural/travel tips. It is also... more info
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I'm entering my third year of Russian study, and I am becoming frustrated with this dictionary. It is the only one I used the first two years, and it served me well during that time. The small size is convenient, and the grammar tables in the back have been invaluable. However, I have found... more info
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This dictionary is the absolute best for students. When I was High School, I would use this for my vocab list all the time and I loved it! Since the book is so small, it takes half the time to find what you are looking for, and the definitions are short, sweet, and to the point...like this review,... more info
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This dictionary simply has the most number of entries in the least amount of space that you can find. That means a portable, easy-to-handle dictionary that you can really use easily. The paper is thin, the fonts are a bit small (so if that is a problem for you, you might want to avoid this... more info
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For a small French English dictionary, this is clearly the best. It has the same content as the slightly larger "standard" version, but is easier to flip through because of its pliable, high quality, soft cover (not plastic). The paper is much better than you will find in the other dictionaries of... more info
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This compact book provides practical phrases. I find it handy to stick in my bag to review before Spanish class or while waiting in line. Good phonetic pronunciation guides.Overall very helpful.
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When I read Biblical Hebrew, I do not want to consult the Brown-Driver-Briggs whenever I want to know what a word means! This is an excellent resource for quick reference.
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This mini dictionary is only slightly larger than a box of cigarettes. Its soft plastic cover is extremely pliable and withstands the challenges of frequent pocket wear very well.
The same is true for the binding. Where other pocket dictionaries couldn't take the abuse of being worn in front or... more info
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This used to be part of Cassell's Contemporary Italian/French/Spanish/German series, which are now out of print. I have them all the they are the best grammar books I own. I am a language buff and own several grammars and these are the best! I had been looking for the Cassell's Contemporary Italian... more info
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For me, the trickiest part about foreign languages is figuring out in what order the words come together, and how various phrases are used. This is ideal for solving such problems! Super organization of phrases and ideas into different categories (clothes, travel, etc.) makes it easy to find the... more info