Angol - Magyar (English - Hungarian Dictionary) (English and Hungarian Edition)

By Orszagh & Magay

Book Overview

192 page softcover book in good condition except for shelf wear and tiny tear on last page. No writing or highlighting. Book is tiny (about 5" X 3.5"). Printed in USA by Saohrograph Corp. Published... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9630569426
• ISBN13: 9789630569422
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Akademiai Kiado, Budapest
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

What else are you going to use? And it turns out to be great

Akademiai Kiado's two dictionaries, MAGYAR-ANGOL SZOTAR (ISBN 9630569434) and ANGOL-MAGYAR SZOTAR (ISBN 9630569426) are the only real option for English-speaking students of Hungarian in search of a pocket dictionary. The only competition, Hippocrene's awful pocket offering and the Rough Guide Hungarian phrasebook (which turns out to just be a normal dictionary) contain so few items and are typeset unreadably to even come close to Akademiai Kiado's. Edited by Tamas Magay and Laszlo Kiss, the dictionaries are sold in bookshops in Hungary and are mainly focused at Hungarians. However, the editors were kind enough to make these entirely useful for English speakers. The Hungarian foreword has an English translation, the list of abbreviations has explanations in both English and Hungarian, and there's a layout of Hungarian speech sounds just for foreigners. MAGYAR-ANGOL SZOTAR contains three appendices. The first, a table of English irregular verbs, and the second, a short list of English irregular nouns, need not concern us. However, the third, conversions between metric and imperial weights and measures (and their English and Hungarian terminology) will prove quite useful for the foreigner travelling in Hungary. The dictionaries are durable (hardcovers with no dust cover), insanely cheap (especially when bought on the spot), and relatively recent (1995). There's no better option for pocket dictionaries, highly recommended to all students of Hungarian.