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The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary

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The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary was my first real dictionary as a Russian Language student. Taking advice from a personal hunch I bought the book before I ever stepped into a university lesson in Russian about three and a half years ago. This dictionary has served me extremely well particularly in terms of translations excercises. I personally consider this dictionary to be a fabulous reference tool for anyone student or professor serious about the study of Russian with a focus on finding the most authoritative and accurate translation of over 80,000 words and/or phrases from Russian to English. Please consider purchasing this dictionary if you speak English as a native language and truly are serious about your studies of Russian. The only drawback to this dictionary comes from the fact that it forces the user to have a good sense of the meaning that he or she is after since it provides such a huge variety on certain translations from Russian to English which is quite understandable considering the difficulty in what many term {comparitive linguistics} i.e. (word to word) translation. I hope that anyone who wants to add to his or her vocabularly will consider purchasing this dictionary for I believe that it will help tremendously with this endeavor.

I've already received this Dictionary and I'm enjoying very much with it. Good and easy to handle it. Good reading and so on.
Esposito, from Brazil

I began studying Russian in college six months ago, and wanted a one-way (Russian to English) dictionary to help me when I begin reading. I have used this dictionary quite a bit already, and it hasn't let me down once. I probably won't need another dictionary until my Russian is good enough that I can use a Russian-only dictionary, which shouldn't be sooner than a few years from now. Though it is not a hardcover, it's not a paperback either - I think it's some kind of two-layer vinyl or plastic material, which seems durable enough. If you're beginning to read in Russian, or already do but need a good dictionary, I would definitely recommend this.

Oxford is the standard. There is no better Russian-English dictionary available. Grammar forms are provided; examples and idioms are given. Appendices include abbreviations and geographical placenames.

This is a great book, with the most massive vocabulary I've seen in one place.

This is super useful for reading Russian text, but not for translating freely back and forth between the two languages.