Customer Reviews

Danish-English Dictionary & Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) (Multilingual Edition)

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This is a perfect little book for the casual to the most interested tourist. Especially suited for the temporary visitor or resident in Denmark, or someone who will be in the country for longer than a week, but not settling there permanently.
There is a short dictionary in the front part of the book (both Danish to English and vice versa) and the other half of the book is dedicated to words and phrases of various realms: eating, shopping, business dealings, traveling within the country. There is also a pronunciation guide and a little cultural introduction; the phrasebook aspect also gives a little cultural insight. It's also a good size. Just big enough to travel with and read (some of those tiny dictionaries are too small!).

Highly recommended. Where else can you learn how to ask for body piercing, a cup of coffee and directions to the Viking burial mound?

I had a hard time as a beginner to Danish because there is no pronunciation help given with the phrases and words, only a pronunciation guide at the beginning of the book.

I purchased this because it was the only Danish dictionary at my local bookseller's. Unfortunately, I have to say after a few months of having used it that it's not terribly effective in either function. The phrases are not cross-referenced in the table of contents for easy access, requiring one to page through most of the back-half trying to think of what sections might be relevant (example: try finding "please" and "thank you.") Several of the perfectly mundane words I wanted to look up ("beads," "bacon") weren't in the dictionary.

Previous reviews have mentioned the lack of pronunciation guidelines within the dictionary itself, and I too found using the 'systematic pronunciation system' far more difficult than simply trying to parrot a native speaker. Buy a Berlitz traveller's phrasebook, then cross your fingers that someday Bantam will publish a Danish dictionary.

I speak a very small amount of danish as my mother's family is from there.
Since it had been 30 years since I had been to Denmark , I thought a danish dictionary would come in handy.
Don't waste your money on this book.
The translations are spelled in danish of course , but there is no english pronunciation right next to the word.
The beginning of the book has the danish alphabet and language rules , but if you knew how to read the language and how the rules apply , you'd already be speking danish !
Worthless !!

Im very disapointed. I needed a really dictionary - and I got a dictionary

for beginners or for readers of children-books.

Its not fair that Amazon don't write that

And as I am only supported by Amazon in my Kindle - please get a good

dictionary!! In fact I need it - when I use my Kindle outside my home :)

regards

Leif O. Dahl

When one is learning a language, there is no perfect and complete source. This book is fine for an initial contact with danish language and culture - but of course many others are needed to complete a library for danish learning.

unfortunately I haven't received it as yet and am still waiting to get it since the beginning of January this year,am losing faith in Amazon unless they can send me a feedback asap!
Cheers guys.