Ntc's Beginner's French and English Dictionary (Language - French) [Hardcover]

Jacqueline Winders (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0844214752 | ISBN-13: 978-0844214757 | Publication Date: January 11, 1992 | Edition: 1

Each of the 3,500 entries contains a clear pronunciation key, parts of speech, an exact English or French equivalent, and an example sentence.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English, French

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 11, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844214752
• ISBN-13: 978-0844214757
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,738,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ok for the very beginners that's it, January 18, 2006

By 

Kimi (OH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NTC's Beginner's French and English Dictionary (Paperback)

I bought this book for french 3 and I wasn't able to use it on my first days homework of review from french 2. It's nice for some one in french 1 or starting french 2, but they have a select choice of words to choice from. Don't get me wrong it's a very nice, easy, to understand dictionary, I would love it if I could have found just a more complete version. Borders didn't have much of a selection, and it caught my eye with how easy it was to understand, with example sentances in english and french. But once I got home and tried to use it for my homework, I realized quickly how it wasn't going to help me on my first day's review work, I was diffently going to have more problems as I got into the class.

I dont know much about books and borders, but I'm really hoping you can return books like you return clothes or at least make an exchange.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific reference. Best I've seen, October 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: NTC's Beginner's French and English Dictionary (Paperback)

This book is just great! Every verb is shown conjugated. Every entry has a sample sentence. I am using it to increase vocabulary and am just thrilled.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Woefully inadequate reference, June 30, 2007

By 

E. Boylan (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: NTC's Beginner's French and English Dictionary (Paperback)

This dictionary came bundled with the French textbook I used for my first three semesters of instruction, and I needed a new dictionary within my first semester. Although I was very new to French, I had at best a 50% chance of finding what I wanted to say in this dictionary. Often, the abbreviated glossary at the back of my textbook was more helpful.

This dictionary is nowhere near pocket-size, and doesn't claim to be. What you might not realize, though, until you get it home and try to use it, is that this book could easily be condensed into a pocket-sized format without any loss of content at all. The type is so large and the spacing so wide that, far from merely being easy to see, it actually looks a bit like a children's dictionary. Trying to use this book and seeing the layout and watered-down content, I had to wonder if the author realized that the reader is only new to French, not to reading altogether.

Every pocket-sized language dictionary I've used, not to mention standard dictionaries, contained more entries and often better explanations. If you are studying French, it doesn't take long for even irregular verb conjugations to become second nature, and in the meantime most textbooks include conjugations of common and irregular verbs in their own appendices. It's more important for a dictionary to indicate a word's function in a sentence, or whether it's always used the same way depending on context, and this dictionary often did not do that. Instead, it guesses what you want to do with the word you're looking up, gives you that in a sentence, and offers no other explanation.

Although it seems counterintuitive, a more advanced dictionary, paired with a real French text, would probably be friendlier for beginning French students-- and neither would become obsolete as quickly as this dictionary.