Germanâ English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) [Paperback]

DK Publishing (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0756612950 | ISBN-13: 978-0756612955 | Publication Date: August 1, 2005 | Edition: Bilingual

Organized by such common subjects as Home, Work, Eating Out, Transportation, Health and Sports, these bilingual visual dictionaries give students and business people quick access to foreign terms in the simplest and most intuitive way.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; Bilingual edition (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756612950
• ISBN-13: 978-0756612955
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > German
  • #85 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > German > Instruction

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great visual dictionary, September 19, 2006

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Tara (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Germanâ English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) (Paperback)

Very good and helpful visual dictionary, but I could not give it 5 stars because it lacks the plural form of the nouns. I also wish that the pictures pertained more to German culture. The picture of the textbook showed the textbook with korean writing. There also wasn't any vocabulary of German specific foods.Other than that, I really enjoy this book and I am glad I bought it. The chapters include People, Appearance, Health, Home, Services, Shopping, Food, Eating Out, Study, Work, Transportation, Sports, Leisure, Environment, and Reference(calendar, numbers, and almost all of the countries).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great dictionary, but lacks some student vocabulary and plural nouns..., August 26, 2007

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B. Surkan (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Germanâ English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) (Paperback)

This dictionary appears to be a minature, softcover, two-language version of the Five Language Visual Dictionary sold by DK (Five Language Visual Dictionary). This book is small enough to be called a pocket visual dictionary and has an exceptional variety of clear, well-organized, indexed images.

While some categories, like the human anatomy section, provide detailed vocabulary well beyond my needs, other sections are wanting of some basic classroom vocabulary. Words like binder and binder paper are not included, but I have yet to find another visual dictionary that includes them. The addition of plural forms of nouns would also be a boon, but it is still a great dictionary. I recommend it to my German I students as a means of linking German vocabulary directly to images rather than always translating to English.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the Coolest Book Ever for this German-Learner, December 25, 2009

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Christopher Abraham (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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I am learning German using Rosetta Stone Version 3: German Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion and so total immersion and learning via images and photos works for me. When I started to realize that I needed way more vocabulary than Rosetta Stone was offering me as I visited Berlin, Germany, I remembered that DK offered some awesome visual dictionaries. So, I checked Amazon to see if they have any foreign language visual dictionaries and they have this one and it is completely comprehensive and includes just about every single photo/German word association imaginable, including technical words. It is amazing to just page through and also amusing to see how literal German is, the way they have made a very literal language work in the modern world with modern things.