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Title: HarperCollins Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish by HarperCollins ISBN: 0-06-273749-X Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best on Spanish-English Dictyionary on Market!
Comment: Harper-Collins has produced the best, most organized dictionary of the Spanish language out on the market. Excellent organization, classification, and regional distinctions (eg. where words are used among the various Spanish speaking nations of the world) has made Harper-Collins' dictionary series the best. Oxford, Larousse, and Penguin's dictionaries can't meet the organizational and thoughful research the Harper-Collins staff has done. This dictionary is worth every penny!
Rating: 5
Summary: PORTABLE, WELL-ORGANIZED, AND NICELY EDITED
Comment: This edition of "HarperCollins Spanish Dictionary" will be treasured by anyone who understands the meaning of quality and value. The book is well-edited, well-organized, ultra-portable, and inexpensive.
With its generous translations, which spanned through several thousands of headwords, there is nothing which should be included in it that was excluded. From idioms to phrases; acronyms to slangs; every entry was accurately translated. As well, there is comprehensive analyses of all the Spanish irregular verbs, which it handled.
The give-away price of this dictionary means that it is affordable to anybody who needs it. It is a priceless companion: an accurate gem, which I would recommend for both students and travellers.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not as good as some reviewers might have you think!
Comment: This is an okay dictionary. Perhaps the reviewer "Ritter" may have had a different edition or the hardcover, because I just looked at the paperback along with about twenty others and found it definitely wanting.
As a former interpreter of three languages other than Spanish, and now a student of Spanish and French...I have always gauged my dictionaries almost exclusively on cuss words. My logic has been that if they include words that anyone being polite will never use, then they will have more of what one will use on an everyday basis. While another reviewer noted the swear words (including those he had not even thought of....) I only saw these from Spanish to English here and not vice versa. Think of the worst English and it probably is not here. In fact it was only in one of about twenty works I looked at tonight in the bookstore and I settled on the "Larouse, Concise dictionary," isbn 2-03-542017-2 9 paperback or (84-8016-129-9), and this is the one I bought instead.
I don't know how often I use the word "zit" or crampon (which is a cognate anyway), in English and am willing to bet that though I do have some class, I would be more likely to use the cusswords than these. However, most of the dictionaries I looked at simply did not have these and even what appeared to be a "contemporary' usage dico still left much to desire.
Most of them (the dictionaries) cover the necessities and I've always liked the Langenscheidt books, though they are not all thorough-they hold up great, and are more thorough per word than this...still, I liked the fact that the Larouse went from English to Spanish, since my native tongue is English. I wouldn't know where to look going the other way around.
Take the reviews with a grain of salt and think of your ultimate purpose, then get one that meets that and has thorough explanations and not simply one word traslations for anthing other than cognates or very simple.
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Title: 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words by Seymour Resnick ISBN: 0486291138 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use by Dover ISBN: 0486280861 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 26 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: 501 Spanish Verbs by Ph.D Christopher Kendris, Ph.D Theodore N. Kendris ISBN: 0764124285 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Spanish for Dummies by Susana Wald ISBN: 0764551949 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses by Dorothy M. Devney ISBN: 0844273341 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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