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Spanishâ English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries)

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This book, as the other reviewer mentioned, is a great source for anyone who wants to learn the language or wants to learn new vocabulary. Like i mention in my review for the French Dictionary, it covers topics rarely covered by other dictionaries like people, appearance, health, services, home, shopping, food, studies, transportation, sports, leisure, environment, etc.

It goes to such specific words as the different parts of a computer or camera, or as the different players (positions) in a football game or members of a rock band.

Excellent source, but a very important note: Spanish is a very complex language, and althouhg it is spoken in many countries, the dialects and words for specific items may change. For example, the word for cake in Puerto Rico is a bad word in Mexico and is not the same in Spain...The Spanish words presented in this dictionary correspond mostly to the spanish spoken in Spain, but fear not! Most words presented are universal and mean the same in any Hispanic country.

Excellent book, I highly recommend it!

I have been studying Spanish for over 5 years and I found this book to be a thoroughly engaging and practical way of reviewing vocabulary. I wish I would have had this book while I was living abroad in Uruguay. The size is nicely compact while the contents are extensive enough to satisfy a broad thematic lexicon. I especially appreciated the photography and the lay out of the book which is vibrant and appealing.

The Spanish English Visual Bilingual Dictionary is filled with colorful images of all the items listed with English and Spanish words. I find it is much easier to remember the words when presented with pictures. At times so many of the Spanish words are similar to the English (telefono/telephone or la nectarine/nectarine) so it makes it even easier to remember along with the pictures.

The areas covered include: people, appearance, home, services, shopping, food, study, work, transport, sports and environment.

Very helpful dictionary when you are learning a language or to look up specific
words. There is a Spanish and English index to simplify searching for words.

~The Rebecca Review

This dictionary appears to be a minature, softcover, two-language version of the Five Language Visual Dictionary sold by DK (Five Language Visual Dictionary). This book is small enough to be called a pocket visual dictionary and has an exceptional variety of clear, well-organized, indexed images.

While some categories, like the human anatomy section, provide detailed vocabulary well beyond my needs, other sections are wanting of some basic classroom vocabulary. Words like binder and binder paper are not included, but I have yet to find another visual dictionary that includes them. It is still a great dictionary, and I recommend it to my Spanish I students as a means of linking Spanish vocabulary directly to images rather than always translating to English.

Oh, this dictionary is so awesome! I have so much geekish fun with it you wouldn't believe it. A genius-like idea (words grouped by theme, each with a matching picture), flawlessly executed.

Though a slightly worrying side-effect is that one starts to lust after the items in the pictures (not the people, who are all remarkably healthy, (except if you're looking at the section about going to the doctor, or being in the hospital), but in a completely cheerful, non-erotic kind of way).

But the things. Everything is so top-of-the line. If DK include a photo of a bathrobe, it's so klassy you immediately start to krave it. Their pastry display makes you drool. You don't just want to know that "la masa brisa" is filo pastry, or that "trifle" is "el postre de soletillas, gelatina de frutas y nata", you want the damned trifle itself. Even the fast food ("comida rapida") looks uncommonly mouth-watering. The "albaricoque" picture is of the most perfect apricot you have ever seen. Even the ugli fruit ("el ugli") is beautiful. Over in the section about the bank, "el director de banco" is kindly and avuncular. "Las plantas podadas con formas" (topiary) are uniformly exquisite. Even the watering can ("la regadera") is an aesthetic delight. "La montaña rusa" (the roller-coaster) is a canonical example of roller-coasterdom.

You get the picture. Actually, you get thousands of them, each more attractive than the next.

The only slight disadvantage is that verbs don't quite get the emphasis they deserve.

File under dictionary-porn.

he conocido este producto al comprar el diccionario inglés - francés.

Lo encuentro muy útil, ya que es todo el vocabulario cotidiano el que aparece, y addemás es ilustrado, lo cual identificas exactamente loq ue quieres buscar.

Estoy muy contenta y se lo recomiendo a todo el mundo.

Really good visual dictionaries are hard to find. This publication is an excellent addition to any Spanish student's library. I teach middle school Spanish, and have decided to use this book as an extension to our texts for building vocabulary. The fact that it references the words by category and picture makes the book very user friendly. It also makes for great browsing and gives the user access to words not commonly used (and many not known even by native speakers.) It also makes a fantastic tool for Spanish speaking students who are learning English. A great and affordable gift!

This is a wonderful visual dictionary. I have been using this dictionary for over 3 years now. The images are wonderful. It is easy to use and is well organized. It is a great starter visual dictionary for anyone who is looking for their first one.

As compared to the firefly visual Spanish dictionary, this one has fewer words. From what I can tell, this dictionary has about 6,000 words. The firefly Spanish mini dictionary has 20,000 words. For that reason I would give it 4 stars instead of 5. (If I could I would give it 4 1/2 stars, because I do love this dictionary.)

If you have never used a visual dictionary before, I highly recommend this dictionary. If you are newer to Spanish, you do not need more words than are in this dictionary for the first few years. If you are fairly fluent in Spanish and need more detailed words, I would recommend the firefly.

This is a very unique and helpful Spanish/English dictionary. This little book uses actual photographs with the vocabulary words. This is very helpful, especially if you are a visual learner. My wife has been a Spanish teacher for over 20 years and she loves this book and uses it both with her Spanish students and her ESL students. It has a nice index which is also very helpful for finding specific terms. The main body of the book is divided into 14 different sections covering vocabulary words which are one will most likely need to know, although there are many words which you probably will not need to know until your Spanish skills are more advanced or unless you are planning on spending an extended amount of time in a Spanish speaking country. These categories are:

People
Appearance
Health
Home
Services
Shopping
Food
Eating out
Study
Work
Transport
Sports
Leisure
Environment
Reference

Each of these chapters are further broken down into more specific categories that have to do with the main topic. Overall, this book is well organized. The nice photographs are a big plus - much better than trying to learn from illustrations. I think that this book would be a great aid for anyone trying to learn Spanish. Of course you will not learn Spanish from this book alone, but it is a great supplement. I highly recommend it.

Bohdi Sanders, author of Wisdom of the Elders

This is a small book but it is packed with visual images and the Spanish words for them. So many useful items are in here, you will not need much more than this. It is small enough that I took it with me to Spain and plan to take it to Mexico. It is also well organized and handy to use so you can find the word you need quickly and easily. I think this an essential book to your Spanish learning.