Product Description

For businessmen, students, and travelers, here is the best most complete, compact Spanish & English dictionary available. With more special features than any other dictionary of its kind, The Bantam New College Spanish & English Dictionary has also been completely revised to include over 3,000 news terms, idioms, and phrases. whatever the word or phrase you want-from 'compact disc" to "discotheque," "meltdown" to "male chauvinist," "pantyhose" to "profit margin" -- you're sure to find it here in this handy, authoritative, and comprehensive reference book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #841948 in Books
• Published on: 1982-05-01
• Released on: 1982-04-01
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 736 pages

From the Publisher
For businessmen, students, and travelers, here is the best most complete, compact Spanish & English dictionary available. With more special features than any other dictionary of its kind, The Bantam New College Spanish & English Dictionary has also been completely revised to include over 3,000 news terms, idioms, and phrases. whatever the word or phrase you want-from 'compact disc" to "discotheque," "meltdown" to "male chauvinist," "pantyhose" to "profit margin" -- you're sure to find it here in this handy, authoritative, and comprehensive reference book.

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For businessmen, students, and travelers, here is the best most complete, compact Spanish & English dictionary available. With more special features than any other dictionary of its kind, The Bantam New College Spanish & English Dictionary has also been completely revised to include over 3,000 news terms, idioms, and phrases. whatever the word or phrase you want-from 'compact disc" to "discotheque," "meltdown" to "male chauvinist," "pantyhose" to "profit margin" -- you're sure to find it here in this handy, authoritative, and comprehensive reference book.

Customer Reviews

Great book for modest needs
This bilingual dictionary's two greatest virtues are its compact yet readable format and its affordable price. And, as a bonus, there are brief summaries of irregular verb forms, which occur with frequency that keeps a novice like me guessing. These reminders are packaged with the two-way translations for convenience, never meant as a substitute for an exhaustive reference.

This meets my limited needs, as someone who comes across the occasional unfamiliar word in newspaper-level reading. Most high school language students will also find that it has all the vocabulary they need. This isn't a scholar's reference, though. Translated definitions tend towards the terse, so they won't cover all usages of a term. And, to keep cost down, it's printed on pulp stock, so it won't last forever even if handled gently. It offers plenty if you don't need much, and that's good enough for me right now.

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Bantam New College Spanish Dictionary
This book is excellent. I refer to it often in order to clarify
fine nuances in the Spanish language. The work has a beginning
section which focuses on pronunciation of the Spanish
alphabet. Afterward, the Spanish word is listed and translated
into English for A-Z. At the midway point, the English word
is listed and translated into Spanish. In addition, there is
an extensive section on verbal tenses. The origin of words
is fully described . For instance, there are distinctions
for Spanish/American, Cuban and Puerto Rican vocabulary.

Excellent choice
This dictionary is an excellent choice for the price. Of course you can get better ones, but certainly you will need lot of additional money and an additional backpack exclusively for carrying it around! This Williams dictionary is by far better than Oxford's Compact English/Spanish dictionary and other "pocket" dictionaries one comes up with. Overall, a good dictionary.