The MacMillan Visual Dictionary : English, Spanish, French, German (Multilingual) [Hardcover]

Frommer (Author), Macmillan Publishing (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0025781154 | ISBN-13: 978-0025781153 | Publication Date: September 1, 1994 | Edition: 1st

In addition to all of the 3,500 illustrations of the original edition as well as its 25,000 fully indexed English terms, the Multi-Lingual Edition includes all terms in Spanish, French, and German. Each entry has been prepared by specialists and verified by linguists in each language. For anyone who speaks or is learning Spanish, French or German -- or for anyone of these nationalities learning English -- the Multi-Lingual Edition is simply indispensable.

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Language Notes

Text: English, French, German, Spanish

Product Details

• Hardcover: 864 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0025781154
• ISBN-13: 978-0025781153
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 7.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,097,257 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How can this possibly be out of print?, November 19, 2003

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jeff hoover (Urbana, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The MacMillan Visual Dictionary : English, Spanish, French, German (Multilingual) (Hardcover)

I saw this book at a Borders bookstore once in Torrance, CA in 1994 or 1995. I thought it was an awesome book and decided that the next time I had some free cash I'd go back and get it. But when I went back it was gone. I asked about it at the info desk and the nice lady told me it was out of print and that they couldn't even order me one!

A year later, in Seattle, I chanced to see it at a Barnes and Noble... in the discount stack, of all places. I snatched it up immediately. Some new employee had made a horrible mistake, I figured. I couldn't believe I was getting such an awesome book for the paltry sum of $40.

It appears I made the right choice, too. I checked on this just today to see if I could buy one for a friend as a present and I see that they are still out of print and that the cheapest they can be found is about $110... used!

This really is one of the best reference books I own. It might seem like 25,000 entries isn't many (for a dictionary), but keep in mind that they're pretty much all nouns and a few adjectives. 25,000 entries isn't much, but 25,000 nouns is HUGE.

Just this morning I was trying to find the French word for "okra". I have five other English-French dictionairies, but none of them had this word. Not even my nice, thick Oxford. But there it was on page 69 of my Visual Dictionary.

I guess I'm just writing this review because I can't understand how such a useful book remains out of print. I only wish they'd release another version with four more languages!

PS - In case you're wondering: okra = le gombo.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the greatest multilanguage dictionary ever made, June 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The MacMillan Visual Dictionary : English, Spanish, French, German (Multilingual) (Hardcover)

This is the most useful and fun dictionary you will ever own. The illustrations are fantastic and wonderfully detailed, and on every subject imaginable under the sun, from bicycles to spaceships. You will not only find it an invaluable reference for the proper terminology in foreign language, but also in your own native tongue. An invaluable reference work for the multilingual person.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the curious., December 8, 2001

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Leah Osad (Second Peter, Chapter 2, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The MacMillan Visual Dictionary : English, Spanish, French, German (Multilingual) (Hardcover)

The knowledge in this book seems so basic, but there are a lot of words that I didn't know before. I'm mostly interested in how different the German words are from English. It is lucky for me that the English words are on the top of each list and German at the bottom, so I'm likely to see what I might know before I get down to what is really strange. I don't know Spanish or French either, but they might make some kind of sense to me. Each language has its own index in the back. If you want to see what pages the funny stuff is on, look up "infundibulum" in the English index. On the Reptile page (98), the VENOMOUS SNAKE'S HEAD is called "KOPF EINER GIFTSCHLANGE" in German. That's like calling a secret military tribunal a legal proceding.