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Hungarian Practical Dictionary: Hungarian-English English-Hungarian (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries) (Hungarian Edition)

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We recently moved to Hungary and purchased this dictionary before we moved. It's bulky but it still goes with us on all of our shopping trips, especially for grocery shopping. We have two small children so knowing ingredients is very important to me. There is very little english spoken or written in our part of the country so this has become our "go to" book. The Hungarian language has such a large amount of words, you really need this larger dictionary. The small travel dictionaries aren't enough. Helpful hint: Hungarians use lots of suffixes when you can't find a word break up the syllables and look for them and put them together. This usually is the key for the hard to find words!
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We purchased this book as a gift for my Mother. She had taken Hungarian lessons as a young girl growing up in Pennsylvania and had friends and relatives to speak Hungarian to until about 20 years ago. This book was purchased for her to use on an upcoming trip we are making this summer to Hungary. She is so pleased with the book's content that she read it cover to cover reacquainting herself with words she hasn't used in years. She would rate this book five stars.

Now, normally Hippocrene publishes these concise (less than 10,000 translations) and commercial (New Times Font, no idiom markings) dictionaries, surprisingly about many of the world's less-commonly-studied languages. This dictionary has to be one of the better reference books published by Hippocrene which I have ever come across.

A good, handy dictionary and very recommended!

It's not too easy to find a Hungarian dictionary, let alone a good one, but I was very pleased with this book. If you are looking for a Hungarian-English/English-Hungarian dictionary that's more substantive than the typical tourist pocket guide, this fits the bill. I've found it useful for both research and translation work because of the decent number of entries. There is also useful information including grammar guides, verb conjugation charts, and so forth, and the book has a number of modern word entries included. Some word entries also contain related phrases (although this is not a phrase book). Although nearly 1,000 pages in length, the book stows easily in a backpack or carrying bag. Great resource for the price.

This is a good dictionary for someone like me who knows some hungarian because you can look up words either way.

This dictionary works well for everyday words.
I was trying to use it for university level English and some words were not in it
but for the average user it should work fine.

Excellent! Perfect for the Hungarian speaker who wants to learn, or refresh their language skills, especially while using the Hungarian TV shows online. This book is great for easy,quick,complete,reference.

Hungarian Practical Dictionary: Hungarian-English English-Hungarian (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries) (Hungarian Edition)

The dictionary is concise and easy to use with thousands of entries.