Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary 2e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and Portuguese Edition) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0060936940 | ISBN-13: 978-0060936945 | Edition: 2nd

From digital TV to voice mail, teleconferencing to teleworking, the Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary keeps you up to date with contemporary Portuguese. Additionally, this dictionary provides extensive help with constructions and usage.

The Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary includes a guide to spelling differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.

Modern and user-friendly, this dictionary gives priority to contemporary language and expressions, providing the information you need to write a paper, read a book, or tell a story.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Portugese

About the Author

HarperCollins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers with headquarters in New York. The company is part of News America Publishing Group, a division of News Corporation. The house of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper. The worldwide book group, which was formed following News Corporation's acquisition of the British publisher William Collins in January 1990, has significant publishing interests in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Collins Reference; 2nd edition (October 9, 2001)
• Language: English, Portuguese
• ISBN-10: 0060936940
• ISBN-13: 978-0060936945
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #53 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Portuguese

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great definitions, June 27, 2005

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K. Haggerty "KMH" (São Paulo, Brazil & San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary 2e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and Portuguese Edition) (Paperback)

This is an excellent resource for anyone who is an English speaker and seriously interested in learning Portuguese, or vice-versa. (For those who only want a tourist pocket dictionary, there are others that are smaller and lighter that will meet your needs.) This dictionary has sufficient breadth without being too large (physically). Most importantly, it is the best on the market in terms of providing correct definitions as well as differentiating between word use in Portugual vs. Brazil.

I'm from the U.S. and have been living and working in Brazil off and on now for 3 years. This dictionary has continued to be invaluable from my journey as a beginning speaker to a fluent translator.

My only complaint is that the binding eventually begins to come apart. It is because of this that I only gave the book 4 stars. In terms of content, it is 5 stars. I believe it is the best Portuguese/English dictionary you can buy on the U.S. market.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, November 18, 2007

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Paul Stevenson "Linguist" (Duhok, Iraq) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary 2e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and Portuguese Edition) (Paperback)

I have been using this dictionary and the Larousse Concise Dictionary: Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese in translation work over the last six months or so. Together, they are quite serviceable. This one is definitely easier to read, as it is printed on white paper, as opposed to the newsprint Larousse uses. This one, however, lacks any verb tables, while Larousse does include such. No one dictionary will prove perfectly satisfactory, so I recommend getting both, and for easier reference to the vast array of sometimes quirky verb forms, add 501 Portuguese Verbs.

P.S. December 2009: After using this dictionary for a couple of years I finally chanced upon two pages with the briefest possible notes on some verb forms. They are not proper tables, as in most dictionaries. Nor, in contrast to other dictionaries, is there any reference to these notes in the entries for the verbs covered. Again, in contrast to other dictionaries, these listings are not at the end, but in the introductory material at the beginning of the dictionary. They are on the pages with the Roman numerals xiv and xv. I hope that in a future edition HarperCollins sees fit to include full, normal verb tables at the end of the dictionary, and to put cross-references to them in the entries for the relevant verbs. This addition would remedy the only serious defect I have found in this dictionary.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Portuguese / English Dictionary to use in Angola!, April 21, 2010

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JMJ "Jackie" (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Collins Portuguese Concise Dictionary 2e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and Portuguese Edition) (Paperback)

I have been working on a rotational assignment to Angola, Africa. Their first language is Portuguese, but it is very different from the Portuguese that is spoken in Brazil and in Portugal. I have bought several dictionaries over the years, but this one is by far the closest to the Portuguese that is spoken in Angola. I have bought many of this brand and will continue to do so while I am working there. Typically I take 12 back with me each time I go back for my rotation and give them to people that I have met as part of my "pay it forward" program. I LOVE This dictionary. Thank you!