The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary

By Oxford University Press

Book Overview

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary, Second Edition identifies over 28,000 objects by means of numbered Based on the premise that pictures can more clearly convey certain kinds of information, this handy reference presents a list of vocabulary relating to a subject together with a picture illustrating that subject. Each double-page spread links the words by number to the picture situation drawn from everyday life. This Second Edition has been revised and updated to reflect over 1,500 new items of vocabulary relating to such diverse fields as photography, typesetting, personal computers, telecommunications, and transport. An essential reference for general readers, students, translators, travelers, and business people, the Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary, Second Edition, serves as an invaluable supplement to any French-English or English-French dictionary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198645384
• ISBN13: 9780198645382
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

recommended

Unlike a dictionary, this book presents a vocabulary associated with a topic. Example topics are animals, plants, woodworking, construction, ships, cars, planes, etc. As a result, if you want to build your vocabulary in order to discuss some topic with someone, you can learn that vocabulary much more quickly than by skipping all over a dictionary. I recommend it.

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary

This is an excellent dictionary for teachers wanting to tie technical subjects, such as agriculture, forestry, industrial arts, or ROTC into their French teaching. It provides finely detailed drawings of machinery,terrain, plants and animals. JH/HS teachers may find it sparten and humerless, but extremely interesting and accurate. It is a good source for a student wanting to pursue an area of technicalThe Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary interest for a portfolio or project.

a must for anyone serious about the language

LOVE this book! I have a bachelors in french and lived in France for three years. How else do you tell the Darty repair man that you think there is a clothes dryer hose you need? Do you learn those terms in french class?....not usually...but you can find it in here. You can even find the french term for fern spores! INSANE amount of vocab that really comes in useful in everyday living when the french word for "furniture dolly" escapes you in the middle of > which is sort of like our Lowes or home depot (c'est 'camion à main' if you were wondering...and no they didn't have one...but the guy at the Renault delearship did and lent me one to help with my move.) Buy with confidence it will come in extremely handy......

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial French and English Dictionary (Paperback)

Very good book with a very wide vocabulary