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Serbian-English, English-Serbian Concise Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary)

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I am a non-Serbo-Croatian speaker, tutoring two Bosnian refugees who have little English. I learned that they read equally well in the latin (Roman) alphabet and in the Cyrillic. I don't. I planned to use this dictionary myself, but I gave it to them, so it isn't a total loss. They tell me that most people educated in the former Yugoslavia are equally familiar with the two alphabets. The book would be more useful to English speakers if Roman text was also used for the Serbo-Croatian words.

This book does have words written in both cyrillic and latin alphabet, but the latin is NOT correct for some letters. The majority of commonly used words are not in this book. I would recommend for a beginner, but not for someone trying to translate anything of importance.

Needed dictionary to help translate Serbian documents from Second World War. This volume uses Cyrillic alphabet and the scope is quite limited. Definitions are very short and there is no explantion of Serbian grammar or usage. Might be useful for someone visiting the area but was almost worthless for my needs.

Many of the words that my Serbian friends use in daily conversation are not even in this little book. Also, I have no interest in learning Cyrillic and this book is focused on that instead of the Latin letters. I wish I had not bought this book.

I've found the choice of vocabulary in this book fairly unsatisfying, even though it says right on the cover that it's a "concise" dictionary. I don't have a problem with the Serbian words appearing only in the Cyrillic alphabet--I kind of need the practice anyway--but I'm surprised and disappointed by how often I have turned to this book for help with a word and come up empty-handed.

I am Slobodan Steve Lohja a Montonegrin born in the States (first generation). My wife is American. My Family doesn't speak english very well. They only know the basic words to get around. My wife has a hard time understanding them. Its frustrating for both sides. So I took it upon my responsibility to go out and get her a translation type book. She was excited when she received it. She ran upstairs and started playing with the words in this dictionary with my mom and aunt "tetka". They were up there a at least an hour. To bring people together and to bring communication between your wife and mom is best stress releiver. To me this dictionary would be priceless. The only thing its lacking, It doesnt teach you the alphabet, and how to pronounce the words, just definitions. Now my wife and my mom can help each other by one learning serbian and the other learning english, wish them luck!

Misses a lot of common words, poor definitions, uses cyrillic... I shouldn't have bought it.