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Shopperworld - Oxford French Minidictionary: English, French / French, English
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List Price: £4.50
Our Price: £3.15
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Manufacturer: OUP Oxford
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Binding: Turtleback
Dewey Decimal Number: 443.21
EAN: 9780198610458
ISBN: 0198610459
Label: OUP Oxford
Manufacturer: OUP Oxford
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 640
Publication Date: 2005-05-26
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Studio: OUP Oxford
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I havent used my french for some years and recently decided to start picking it up again. So I bought all the harry potter books in french, and used an old pocket Collins Gem Dictionary. Onto the third book some of the pages started to come loose from the dictionary and since I have it for a good part of 10 years thought it was high time to replace it. Since I'm using it for reading I wanted something small like my Collins so I can hold both at once and still read.
After buying an Oxford mini dictionary I had a quick comparison with the Collins and I was initially impressed, the Oxford was slightly bigger but included phrases, grammar and irregular verbs etc. Another plus point would be that the writing is larger and far easier to read and the layout seems good.
However my issue with the dictionary came when putting it to use, the vocabulary simply isn't in there. Despite my old Collins being smaller i'm continually reverting back to it to find words.
These 'extras' such as conversions, verb tables and phrases, and the larger writing would be useful if it were not put in at the cost of the vocabulary. This should be a dictionary first and foremost, with extras being extra. I'll be out to buy a new version of the pocket collins Gem!
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Summary: Ideal travel companion & quick reference
Comment: Mini-dictionaries are strange beasts, likely too many words for the average traveller, but not usually enough for more than the most beginning student. This one however includes not only useful and modern phrases for the traveller, set out side by side so you or your puzzled French person can point and smile at the relevant bit, but also handy menu items and phrases about exchanging email addresses.
Its ultra-modern and up to date with the latest slang, making it perfect for double checking unexpected words in newspapers, magazines and recent novels, and is small enough to slip easily into a pocket or bag to carry around. The text is clear, the translations succint and there are handy box-outs with background information about particularly French establishments where a word for word translation would leave you clueless. With verb tables at the back and many pointers and grammatical niggles mentioned in the main entries, there's an awful lot of useful stuff crammed into a very small space.
Ideal little companion for home, work or on the move, I was most impressed.
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