Customer Reviews

Estonian-English/English-Estonian Dictionary and Phrasebook (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks) (Multilingual Edition)

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The Hippocrene dictionary was the first Estonian-English/English-Estonian dictionary that I bought. I was continually frustrated by the absence I words which I wanted to check, in both Estonian and English. The TEA pocket dictionary, published by TEA Kirjastus in Tallinn is much more reliable. Now that I have a copy, I can't even remember where I have abandoned the Hippocrene dictionary.

The TEA dictionary is not available yet through Amazon. You'll find it only if you go to TEA's Estonian website and register as a user.

OK, Amazon, stock the TEA publications! They are very good!

This book is excellent for those who need an Estonian-English dictionary.

By the way, review the BOOK, not Amazon's service.

Before bought this book I had acquired another book, a Text-book ("Estonian Textbook" by Juhan Tuldava), it has a 'little' dictionary at the end of it's pages showing the words in the nominative, genitive, partitive and partitive plural cases all at ones. The 'Estonian dictionary & Phrasebook' only shows the main word (nominative) and is smaller than the 'little' dictionary in the back of the other Text-book. This disappointed me because I bought it mainly for the dictionary.
The phrasebook part is useful if you want to learn the most common things, but if you want to spend time learning real Estonian, I recommend you this extremely useful Text-book of Juhan Tuldava.

An excellent publication which allows translation from English to Estonian and it gives me some chance of undersatanding Estonian conversations in the reverse translation. much more useful than an Estonian Phrase book which only allows one way communication.

Although it is a difficult language to learn, this book does a very good job of presenting common phrases, a sizable dictionary (in both directions) and a nice pronunciation guide in the beginning. I was very pleased with it and highly recommend it.

Great dictionary - it's been of great help as I make my way in Tallinn. Although many speak English, I think it rude to not speak a little of the native language and found this dictionary very helpful. I recommend it!

This version of the dictionary is easy to use. It also incorporates common phrases which are very helpful.

I am sure this dictionary is fine, but I have not received it yet- a month after ordering it! In the meantime I have been on holiday to Estonia and have been back a week as well!
Come on Amazon we expect better service than this from you.