The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Russian Edition) [Paperback]

Oxford University Press (Author), E. C. Parnwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 1994 | ISBN-10: 019434651X | ISBN-13: 978-0194346511 | Edition: English/Russian

Published in 1988, this dictionary continues to be a favorite of many teachers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; English/Russian edition (January 27, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019434651X
• ISBN-13: 978-0194346511
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #464,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Nonfiction > Russian
  • #77 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Russian

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for ESL tutoring - wish they could show a page, May 10, 2001

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Rusty (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Russian Edition) (Paperback)

If only they could show a sample page - it would give all the lowdown a prospective purchaser would need. Most of the caveats I saw in the other reviews are true enough, but this is still the best basic ESL resource I've come across (both the monolingual and the English/Russian version). My only negative is that a few items are a bit dated (or maybe that's the book's British roots and it's an item common across the pond but not here). But the thematic approach works great and I'd give this a slight edge over the line of also worthy Bill Bliss illustrated dictionaries.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for U.S. people adopting Russian children!, May 23, 1999

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"cruisemagic" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Russian Edition) (Paperback)

We got this book to assist us with teaching our soon to be adopted 14 year old daughter English. The pictures are all coded with a number, and at the base of each page, there is a Russian and English word for what the numbered item is, in the picture. The dictionary shows various situations as one large picture: For example, each room of the house, and each item in each room is labeled. Also, school rooms, bus stops, all kinds of foods and "things". Airports, relationships (family tree), body parts, clothes, feelings, situations and so much! This is an awesome tool to use in communicating with someone of any age who speaks Russian and needs to communicate to you in English. (Or vice versa). I will also know by our daughter pointing to a picture and then the number associated with it, that we are talking about the exact same thing. She can read the Russian word, and I will tell her (pronounce) the English word. So, we are sure to be talking about the same exact thing. Paperback and easy to carry around. Very clever!

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very useful for English students of Russian language, November 2, 1999

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Kulero (Roswell, GA, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Russian Edition) (Paperback)

The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Russian seems geared toward Russian students of English. It would be more useful for this if it included International Phonetic Alphabet beside the English words on the picture pages. Instead, non-IPA pronunciation guides are buried in an index. For the student of Russian, it's almost useless. Russian is fairly phonetic--if you know where the accent falls. Unfortunately, accent marks are completely absent, and the two dots of letter <yo> are never shown, confusing it with <ye>. (While standard written Russian omits these marks, pedagogical texts should include them.) A student who learned the word for "bill, receipt" from this book would mispronounce <schyot> as <schyet>, eliciting great confusion and then laughter from his Russian friends. Also, when the book gives a plural noun, you can't always predict the singular form. For other nouns irregular plural forms aren't given. Noun gender is never given and sometimes can't be predicted. The only way to make this book useful for correctly acquiring Russian vocabulary is to look up all 2400+ words, a daunting task!