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Collins Robert French College Dictionary, 7e (Collins Language)

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I've been studying French for many years now and finally come to realize that online dictionaries are lacking; they rarely give context and appropriate usage. This dictionary was well priced and well balanced between a pocket dictionary and full dictionary. My favorite part is that it gives a variety of examples of how the word is typically used, which provide good expressions for my French compositions. The only negative for me is the large size and weight, but this is a necessary trade-off to get such a quality dictionary.

This is the dictionary that was set by my French professor at college, and it was significantly cheaper here than at the college bookstore. The book is large and heavy, so it's perhaps not great for lugging around all the time, but it's still smaller than most of my textbooks. There's a nice section in the middle that goes through things like useful sentences, expressing opinions, expressing indifference, apologies, greetings, how to address an envelope properly, how to start and end personal or formal correspondence, how to format a CV, an email, or a business letter, types of phone calls, and also a French verb table. Then the book does it all again in French to English.