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Marathi-English/English-Marathi Dictionary & Phrasebook

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Very nice dictionary. The terrain it covers is limited, BUT limited in a thoughtful way: One senses a single, intelligent force behind the design of the whole book. If you read the dictionary entries in this book in parallel with its grammar section, you can actually begin to see how the Marathi language works, using this one slim volume all by itself. That's the sort of elegance one always hopes for but rarely finds in such works.
(Also, I have yet to find a single typo or inconsistency between the Marathi-English and English-Marathi halves of the dictionary. By contrast, in many Chinese dictionaries, for example, the C-E half and E-C half seem written by two teams living on different planets, with maddening inconsistencies and lapses between them.)

This is a great-looking book, sure to be of use to anyone traveling to Mumbai/Bombay. It's full of useful words and phrases.

Even though it is a small book, it covers quite a lot including alphabet, pronunciation, dictionary, phrases, basic grammar and more. It is well organized and fits in a pocket. I'm looking forward to learning as much as I can from it.

It's quite easy for me to read and find things in this dictionary and phrasebook. I liked it immediately when I browsed through the book. Oh, the cover is very eye-catching too.

This is a great phrasebook to use if you are traveling to Mumbai (Bombay)--the Romanization is easy to learn and the dimensions of the book make it easy to slip in one's back pocket. I'd recommend it to anybody visiting India, and consider it a requirement if you're moving to Mumbai.