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White Hmong-English Dictionary [Paperback]

Ernest Heimbach (Author)
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1979 0686890574 978-0686890577 new edition
Contains over 4,900 definitions. Includes a guide to pronunciation, stresses and tone changes as well as useful phrases and proverbs.
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Text: English --This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia; new edition edition (1979)
  • ISBN-10: 0686890574
  • ISBN-13: 978-0686890577
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,027,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars even a caucasian could learn, June 4, 2000
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i am the typical midwest anglo saxon and having a hmong girlfriend led me to learn this language. But i wanted it to be a suprise.....so i bought this book and studied it in private- and even though the language is so much different then english....this book carried me through it all step by step--relating the sounds of hmong to english words i knew- so that i could pronounce them readily.(without a hmong person's help) I have bought numerous books in the past regarding this subject- and this one was the breakthrough.......you will be greatly enabled with this tool!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not appropriate for Hmong ESL students, May 1, 2001
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I work at a school for Hmong refugees and we were hoping the dictionary portion of this book could be used by our students. According to our bilingual specialist, who is Hmong and has a BA from an American university, this dictionary has many errors. Two of our other Hmong staff members also found errors. In addition, they all said that the dictionary's definitions would be too confusing for most Hmong ESL students.

Perhaps the instructional part of the book could help caucasian Americans to learn Hmong, but be aware that, according to our native-speaking Hmong staff members, the pronunciation indicators in this book are not all accurate, and the grammatical explanations try to impose English grammar on a language which is practically the polar opposite of English. The result is an inaccurate picture of the language.

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5.0 out of 5 stars book review, November 2, 2009
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this book was a great reference for my mom who doesnt speak english. she is trying really hard and this source was great.
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