Harrap's Five Language Basic Dictionary

by Monika Eberhard

Book Overview

A world of languages in one dictionary, this comprehensive reference tool sets a new standard of dictionary excellence with 20,000 key words in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133879860
• ISBN13: 9780133879865
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: MacMillan Reference Library
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One Little Problem

I had been looking for a book that had vocabulary for all the major European languages for some time. An idea that came to me after I began studying both Italian and Spanish and thought it would be nice to have the vocabulary laid out together. For good measure I thought French and German would be nice as well in case I decide to study them someday. This book has been extremely elusive as well, as it is not only out of print, but few used or new copies exist. I've seen it online for as much as $100. The book is laid out alphabetically like one large spreadsheet, with one column for German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. There is just one problem, the book is laid out alphabetically irrespective of language. So instead of the left main column being just English or French, it is all the languages. Example one entry on the left column will be by the way(eng) and the next entry is calbagar(span) etc. So in that sense it is very much a dictionary rather than a vocabulary book. Although I don't know who would constantly need to be looking up words in 5 languages. Anyway, it is really the only book of it's kind, minus some kind of illustrated one that I saw once. As a reference and for somebody who wants to learn vocabulary of a few major languages all at once it is a deserved 4 stars.