Customer Reviews

Components: Vocabulary Playing Cards (The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (1988 ed.))

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I don't understand why some people don't understand that the Oxford Picture Dictionary and its various accoutrements are intended for helping people learn English. The bilingual editions are for people who want a little extra help by having the words in their native languages in addition to the English words. They might also be useful for an English person learning one of those other languages, but that is not the intended (principal) use.

So, on to these cards. I find them handy to use in the classroom on occasion, to review vocabulary, often in a game-type of environment. The problem, and the reason they only get three stars from me, is that there just aren't enough cards, and they are taken from all oveor the book, so there are just a few cards for any one vocabulary area. This diffusion is a major limitation to these otherwise useful cards.

I would rather have these in a flashcard format, so that English and Spanish words were written on the back of the card. There needs to be more cards, also, to cover more topics in the book.
Overall, for what the cards are, they serve their intended purpose.

As a learning aid for Spanish, these playing cards should get no stars at all. Although they're sold to accompany The New Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Spanish, they are set up for people learning English, not Spanish. The cards are divided between picture cards (a picture of a tomato, for example) and cards with the English words for those pictures.