Spanish Picture Dictionary (Kids Picture Dictionary) (English and Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Berlitz (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Kids Picture Dictionary

Developed by a team of language experts and educators, these fun dictionaries for children ages four to nine are a goldmine of more than 1,000 colorfully illustrated words. Berlitz kids Picture Dictionaries are packed with essential words young language learners need to know such as colors, shapes, numbers, family members, and animals. Every word is accompanied by a translation, a simple sentence, and a colorful picture. A conversation section contains valuable phrases essential for beginners, and special pages introducing topics such as clothing, insects, flowers/plants, and toys that will teach children about things that are proven most appealing to them.

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About the Author

In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Berlitz Publishing; 2 edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English, Spanish
• ISBN-10: 981246431X
• ISBN-13: 978-9812464316
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pictures and Sentences, November 18, 2004

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D. Burns (Galveston, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanish Picture Dictionary (Kids Picture Dictionary) (English and Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I started to learn spanish recently on my own in order to teach my newborn daughter spanish as she grew up. I bought several adult learning books along the way. Spanish By Association was my favorite to get me started building vocabulary right away. It also threw in a dozen or so simple and easy to use grammar rules. I recommend that book.

However, I started looking at the kids spanish learning books recently and found there are some approaches in them that the adult books don't cover. First, the Berlitz Kid's Span Dictionary uses every word in a spanish sentence, which my adult spanish dictionaries don't do. I personally like to see words used in a sentence and most dictionaries, nor flashcards include senteces. Secondly, in McGraw-Hill's Spanish Picture Dictionary, each page is a common scene from life; kitchen, living room, garden, park, etc and all the objects in the scene are label in spanish and english. I love this idea and I have made xerox copies of each room page and taped in that room in my house. As parents, we use these scenes to help us remember and learn the vocabulary for each room when we are in at the time. So, when we are in the kitchen, we use and learn the kitchen words as we cook. It seems this would work for kids also. They could study the words for each room anytime they were in there.

The Berlitz book does mix in some of the "scene" pages, but they are so scattered and random that they don't have the impact that the dedicated scene books have. If they would have put them all in one location in the book, it would have been more compelling. I still like the book for it's pictures and the word being used in a sentence. The Cat in the Hat Spanish Dictionary is similar to this book. It has the word in a sentence and cartoons for each word, but doesn't have the scene pages. Kids my like the Suess book for it's Suess drawings, but I think the Berlitz book has just as much good info.