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Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (BILINGUAL VISUAL DICTIONARY) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 83176
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0756612985
Dewey Decimal Number: 463.21
EAN: 9780756612986
ASIN: 0756612985
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Book Description
Organized by such common subjects as Home, Work, Eating Out, Transportation, Health and Sports, these bilingual visual dictionaries give students and business people quick access to foreign terms in the simplest and most intuitive way.
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A great resource and reference June 9, 2008
I LOVE this book so much that I have bought it over and over - giving it away as gifts to so many Spanish learners and even Spanish speakers who are not so fluent that they couldn't benefit from a book that provides English, Castilian and Mexican usage for thousands of very specific pictures. Inflatable dinghy? reduced-fat milk? extension cord? after-sun care? It's all here, with DK's characteristically beautiful photos. It's a bit heavy to cart everywhere, but it's so engrossing that it makes any long wait (at the supermarket or doctor's office)an unexpected pleasure.
diccionario espanol-ingles February 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
he conocido este producto al comprar el diccionario ingles - frances.
Lo encuentro muy util, ya que es todo el vocabulario cotidiano el que aparece, y addemas es ilustrado, lo cual identificas exactamente loq ue quieres buscar.
Estoy muy contenta y se lo recomiendo a todo el mundo.
Excellent and essential dictionary February 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a small book but it is packed with visual images and the Spanish words for them. So many useful items are in here, you will not need much more than this. It is small enough that I took it with me to Spain and plan to take it to Mexico. It is also well organized and handy to use so you can find the word you need quickly and easily. I think this an essential book to your Spanish learning.
This dictionary is the bomb! January 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Oh, this dictionary is so awesome! I have so much geekish fun with it you wouldn't believe it. A genius-like idea (words grouped by theme, each with a matching picture), flawlessly executed.
Though a slightly worrying side-effect is that one starts to lust after the items in the pictures (not the people, who are all remarkably healthy, (except if you're looking at the section about going to the doctor, or being in the hospital), but in a completely cheerful, non-erotic kind of way).
But the things. Everything is so top-of-the line. If DK include a photo of a bathrobe, it's so klassy you immediately start to krave it. Their pastry display makes you drool. You don't just want to know that "la masa brisa" is filo pastry, or that "trifle" is "el postre de soletillas, gelatina de frutas y nata", you want the damned trifle itself. Even the fast food ("comida rapida") looks uncommonly mouth-watering. The "albaricoque" picture is of the most perfect apricot you have ever seen. Even the ugli fruit ("el ugli") is beautiful. Over in the section about the bank, "el director de banco" is kindly and avuncular. "Las plantas podadas con formas" (topiary) are uniformly exquisite. Even the watering can ("la regadera") is an aesthetic delight. "La montana rusa" (the roller-coaster) is a canonical example of roller-coasterdom.
You get the picture. Actually, you get thousands of them, each more attractive than the next.
The only slight disadvantage is that verbs don't quite get the emphasis they deserve.
File under dictionary-porn.
Excellent book; could use more verbs and adjectives January 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very extensive book, with lots of useful words and not a lot of junk (unlike some visual dictionaries, esp. those published by Milet).
Oodles of different subjects to study. This book is especially helpful if you make flashcards from the lists.
My first and only major complaint about this book is that it doesn't provide a whole lot of verbs, and for a book of this size, it could include considerably more adjectives for physical states, personality traits, etc. It's not totally devoid of these things, but there are no categories devoted to these types of items.
My other complaint is that there are a few words and phrases which just... aren't... correct. Actually, there's very little that could be considered downright WRONG - but there are some phrases, here and there, which do not reflect the most common way of saying something.
Overall, though, I think this is quite possibly the best visual dictionary on the market. It's got a lot of stuff, but it's not overwhelming (like the Firefly dictionaries) and it isn't riddled with useless vocab (like the Milet editions).
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