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Germanā English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries)

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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).

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.

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.

I got this book to assist my wife with her German language learning.
However, I discovered it was SO comprehensive that it contained vocabulary that I didn't possess, and I've been speaking German for years!
The photos are a great assist. They make the words come alive.
This is an excellent German language companion.

Our relatives, who we visited in Germany, had a similar book, and raved about it, and how helpful it was (their English was fair, better than our German), so we decided to look for something similar. This little book, although not as comprehensive, looks as if it will work very well for our purposes when our German relatives visit us.

This dictionary, gives a visual description for every word. For travelers this would be an excellent reference source, as you can look at the picture, and see the corresponding word for it.

This is a great book. Very easy to use. Hopefully it will help me a lot in Germany!

The page format is small but the information is excellent, and the smaller size does make it convenient for toting around as needed. Photographs are labeled with both English and German names, and can help one go to a doctor's appointment or attend a kids' activity. I like that the explanatory text is in both languages on the same page - easy to learn from, and that there are both English and German indexes. I expect to add other languages that I work with to my reference collection.

Unbelievably useful! You would think a few coloured pictures with their German and English names wouldn't make much of a difference, but it makes learning new vocabulary fun and easier. It is as if your German teacher is sitting beside you and pointing things out. If anything, it is just too easy to spend hours browsing through it, rather than doing serious study. Highly recommended.

Not to put down classroom learning, using standard dictionaries or grammars, I believe immersion in the culture (I learned Spanish living in Latin America...eating, drinking, dancing, listening to radio/tv and touching the culture). I've been self teaching French (CDs/tapes/DVDS as well as 2 week trips to Quebec and Paris. I have 'Visuel Dictionnaire Francais' and ',Spanish-English Visual'. I'd prefer learning by living and immersion 24/7 in another culture, but if not possible other methods help. CDs/tapes help the audio memory to learn, while Visual books record the visual memory. I don't plan to attend class to learn German now, but can visually increase my German vocabulary in this way...the German Visual dictionary. I'm amazed at the words/images I have stored in my memory in Spanish, French or other languages that I probably learned through taste, reading a street sign, in a movie. Language learning at school is ok, but too easily forgotten. Visual/sensory memories are more real for me than words I looked up in a standard dictionary.