Esperanto-English, English-Esperanto Dictionary and Phrasebook

by Joseph F. Conroy

A handy Esperanto dictionary and phrasebook presenting the best international usage and avoiding anglicisms. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781807360
• ISBN13: 9780781807364
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 3.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Good book

For who is learning Esperanto and is already reading another book, this is a good complement, to be kept at your hands when you have some doubts, or you need to learn more way of saying.

Excellent, for the purpose it was intended for...

Let's be clear, you won't really learn esperanto using only this book. It is too limited as to it's scope. However as a simple phrasebook and dictionary for the occasional esperanto user, it does quite well. It's a great little book to carry around (unless you have room to carry a full dictionary or a complete language workbook) in your purse or briefcase. As a small travel book for travelers who "may" use esperanto in their tavels, this does the job quite nicely.

The "dictionary" is an add-on.

As others have said, this book really isn't a useful dictionary. However, as a phrase book, and quick language reference, it's great. If you plan on buying this, I highly recommend getting an actual translation dictionary to go with it. Still, the sample telephone answering machine recording is on my voice mail....Tiel alioj diris, cxi tio libro ne-estas vere vortaro utila. Ankoraux, tiel fraz-libro, kaj tiel referenco rapida lingva, gxi estas belega. Se vi planus acxeti cxi tion, mi rekomendegas ankaux acxeti vortaron efektivan tradukan. Ankoraux, la provajxa telefona mesagxo estas uzata je mia vocx-posxto.

Five Green Stars, As This Book Deserves

I would like to enlighten the few people who have made some rather nasty criticisms of this dictionary/phrasebook. Do you realize that the author is perhaps the foremost authority on Esperanto in North America and perhaps even the world? Do you think for a moment that ELNA does not know, condone, or appreciate this author for advocating the learning and speaking of Esperanto? Personally, I didn't find fault that the vocabulary was a litte less haughty and a whole lot more like the way human beings actually communicate. I would also suggest that the "serious student" go find another language to smack around for a while--Esperanto was INVENTED to be PRACTICAL. Esperanto is a tool--and a useful tool at that--for international communication, and this is where I see the emphasis in this particular work. That is what recommends this book in my opinion.

Good dictionary, very nice phrasebook

FWIW, the book is divided up like this: 2-page Alphabet and Pronunciation guide -- 11-page Overview of Esperanto Grammar -- 47-page Esperanto-English dictionary -- 47-page English-Esperanto dictionary -- 107-page Phrasebook -- 5 pages of other sources of information, including pertinent WWW addresses. The dictionaries are quite useable, if not extensive. Where the book really shines is the Phrasebook, where Conroy sets out lists of words and short phrases, grouped by category. This is a great source of sample sentences and natural ways to say common things. A handful of the categories are: Weather, People and Places, Sayings and Proverbs, Days, Months and Holidays, Abbreviations, and The Internet. It's nice having words grouped together like this, and I haven't seen it in other Esperanto dictionaries.