Collins Shubun English Japanese Dictionary = (NEW) (Gem) [Paperback]

HarperCollins (Author), Richard C. Goris (Author)

Book Description

Series: Gem | Publication Date: January 1999

A special feature of this title, which contains over 27,000 reference and 38,000 translations, is a practical thematic supplement. Covering topics such as introducing oneself, Japanese in the workplace, the telephone and transport systems, it shows equivalent expressions in English and Japanese. This book offers romanized Japanese and a pronunciation guide simplifying the pronunciation of Japanese. It includes an English wordlist provided by the Collins Cobuild corpus project.

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Text: English, Japanese

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More than 27,000 entries and 38,000 translations.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Harper Resource (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0004334051
• ISBN-13: 978-0004334059
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,032,784 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tool for English speaker, December 6, 1998

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EnglishTeacher "scubabear" (EnglishSpeakingCountry) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collins Shubun English Japanese Dictionary = (NEW) (Gem) (Paperback)

Best English-to-Japanese dictionary I've owned. Good binding with all-weather plastic covers. Gives romanized and Kanji/Hiragana spellings of words, and invaluable example sentences. The book contains a surprising range of words. One weak point: the dictionary does NOT ALWAYS give the polite forms for verbs (e.g., does URU become URIMASU or UMASU ?). To complement Collins/Shubun's dictionary with another dictionary listing (among other things) verbs in both dictionary AND polite forms, in romanized form only, try ISBN #0-8048-1588-7

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable companion for foreign travellers in Japan, April 5, 2000

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John Rayner (Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collins Gem Shubun English-Japanese Dictionary (Paperback)

This book is the perfect pocket-size companion for foreigners living or travelling in Japan. The book is small and lightweight, so can be taken anywhere. Despite its size, the content is more comprehensive than most larger size dictionaries and the Japanese is written both in Kanji/hiragana (useful for showing to Japanese people) and Romaji. There are clearly presented usage examples and key words are explained in more detail. The detail of this book makes it useful to anyone studying Japanese from beginner to advanced level.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lacking some words, but overall good., August 8, 2003

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chris (LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collins Gem Shubun English-Japanese Dictionary (Paperback)

This book seems to be missing a lot of words. There have been several times I have tried to look a word up and have not found it listed. Most likely, it has just the most commonly used words. If this is all you need, this is a good dictionary to buy. If you want a reference of a large vocabulary, go for another.