5 Language Visual Dictionary

1. 2002 version is not different from 2003 version but paper. 2003 version's paper is thicker. 2. English vocabulary in this book is British not American. 3. This book has problems with using definite articles. We can't figure out some french words' masculine or not. 4. I purchased the used book that was marked "very good". However, one page was torn in the center even though the seller said it was just worn by light. So I just give 3 stars.

Cómo primera impresión me parece buen diccionario visual para principiantes, tiene su app en dónde necesitas el código de barra para abrirla accedes descargas los idiomas que deseas tener y empiezas a escuchar. súper intuitivo y sencillo buen tamaño fácil de llevar.

Nice dictionary but the free online app is horrible.

Great product I'm glad I bought it.

Excellent but no pronunciation guide.

I give this book to new language learners

The "5 Language Visual Dictionary" is one of the most unique books I have seen on learning languages. This book introduces the reader to over 6,000 words used in everyday vocabulary. There are 1,600 full-color images. What is amazing about this book is how many words really do look similar in all the languages. So, if you get a visual picture of the word, you will more than likely be able to recognize it rather easily in all languages. For example: Internet, l'internet, das Internet, el internet, Internet. Ok, that was an easy example. How about: refrigerator, le frigidaire, (der Kuhlschrank), el refrigerado, il frigorifero. This dictionary is divided thematically. It covers most aspects of the everyday world. The five languages are always presented in the same order. English French German Spanish Italian Nouns are given with their definite articles reflecting the gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) and the verbs are indicated by a (v) after the English words. Contents: About the Dictionary, How to Use this Book, People, Appearance, Health, Home, Services, Shopping, Food, Eating Out, Study, Work, Transportation, Sports, Leisure and Environment. You will find a medical diagrams, a family tree, all sorts of clothing examples, information on medical conditions and alternative therapy and rooms in a house (loved the kitchen complete with all the "les ustensiles de cuisine.") You will also enjoy the workshop, garden, shopping malls, floral arranging, food section (the types of fish and exotic fruits were interesting too), delicatessen, school, work, transportation, sports, orchestra, home entertainment, the Earth, the Animal Kingdom, towns, calendars and continents. There is also an Index in each language. They went all out on this book! Ideal for: Students Travelers Business people Anyone who wants to look through visual pictures of items throughout the world Children leaning the names of items in the world. You could just show them the pictures and teach them the names in any language. Fascinating view of our world. A must for all libraries, schools and homes. Definitely a must-have for travelers of all ages. ~The Rebecca Review

This visual dictionary has more than 1,600 colourful images and its 400 pages are divided into 19 chapters as follows: About the dictionary, How to use this book, People, Appearance, Health, Home, Services, Shopping, Food, Eating out, Study, Work, Transport, Sports, Leisure, Environment, Reference, Index and Acknowledgments. For each picture you get its meaning in five languages, and for each word you have its definite article showing the gender. Very interesting is the presence of pictures showing actions, so that you get the verbs as well as some useful phrases. At the end of the "Reference" section you have "particles and antonyms" and "useful phrases" - essential phrases, greetings, signs, help, directions, accommodation, eating and drinking. The index is divided into five parts, one for each language, and the names have their gender shown by means of the letters m, n, f . I particularly enjoy playing with this book by showing a picture and letting my friends guess its meaning in the foreign languages they have studied, and think it's a useful tool for teachers, students or professionals, for the topics are covered in detail. Last but not least, the dictionary is published by DK, i.e. it's a Dorling Kindersley Book, a Penguin Company.

I give it 5 stars because it does an excellent job of presenting the top 5 European languages in an easily comparable way. It will NOT teach you a language. But it's intriguing to see word similarities. I've studied all 5 languages (and am currently studying German full-time). I can't say whether folks who have no background in any more than one of the languages would find the book as much fun as I do. But as soon as I saw it I wanted a copy. Too bad it's out of print, although Amazon still has copies available (3-6 weeks' wait).

I'm the kind of person that uses english as second language and I need to expand my vocabulary at Health and Sport areas mainly. Very good book, old-school style I would say. Happy with my purchase.

1. 2002 version is not different from 2003 version but paper. 2003 version's paper is thicker. 2. English vocabulary in this book is British not American. 3. This book has problems with using definite articles. We can't figure out some french words' masculine or not. 4. I purchased the used book that was marked "very good". However, one page was torn in the center even though the seller said it was just worn by light. So I just give 3 stars.

Cómo primera impresión me parece buen diccionario visual para principiantes, tiene su app en dónde necesitas el código de barra para abrirla accedes descargas los idiomas que deseas tener y empiezas a escuchar. súper intuitivo y sencillo buen tamaño fácil de llevar.

Nice dictionary but the free online app is horrible.

Great product I'm glad I bought it.

Excellent but no pronunciation guide.

I give this book to new language learners

The "5 Language Visual Dictionary" is one of the most unique books I have seen on learning languages. This book introduces the reader to over 6,000 words used in everyday vocabulary. There are 1,600 full-color images. What is amazing about this book is how many words really do look similar in all the languages. So, if you get a visual picture of the word, you will more than likely be able to recognize it rather easily in all languages. For example: Internet, l'internet, das Internet, el internet, Internet. Ok, that was an easy example. How about: refrigerator, le frigidaire, (der Kuhlschrank), el refrigerado, il frigorifero. This dictionary is divided thematically. It covers most aspects of the everyday world. The five languages are always presented in the same order. English French German Spanish Italian Nouns are given with their definite articles reflecting the gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) and the verbs are indicated by a (v) after the English words. Contents: About the Dictionary, How to Use this Book, People, Appearance, Health, Home, Services, Shopping, Food, Eating Out, Study, Work, Transportation, Sports, Leisure and Environment. You will find a medical diagrams, a family tree, all sorts of clothing examples, information on medical conditions and alternative therapy and rooms in a house (loved the kitchen complete with all the "les ustensiles de cuisine.") You will also enjoy the workshop, garden, shopping malls, floral arranging, food section (the types of fish and exotic fruits were interesting too), delicatessen, school, work, transportation, sports, orchestra, home entertainment, the Earth, the Animal Kingdom, towns, calendars and continents. There is also an Index in each language. They went all out on this book! Ideal for: Students Travelers Business people Anyone who wants to look through visual pictures of items throughout the world Children leaning the names of items in the world. You could just show them the pictures and teach them the names in any language. Fascinating view of our world. A must for all libraries, schools and homes. Definitely a must-have for travelers of all ages. ~The Rebecca Review

This visual dictionary has more than 1,600 colourful images and its 400 pages are divided into 19 chapters as follows: About the dictionary, How to use this book, People, Appearance, Health, Home, Services, Shopping, Food, Eating out, Study, Work, Transport, Sports, Leisure, Environment, Reference, Index and Acknowledgments. For each picture you get its meaning in five languages, and for each word you have its definite article showing the gender. Very interesting is the presence of pictures showing actions, so that you get the verbs as well as some useful phrases. At the end of the "Reference" section you have "particles and antonyms" and "useful phrases" - essential phrases, greetings, signs, help, directions, accommodation, eating and drinking. The index is divided into five parts, one for each language, and the names have their gender shown by means of the letters m, n, f . I particularly enjoy playing with this book by showing a picture and letting my friends guess its meaning in the foreign languages they have studied, and think it's a useful tool for teachers, students or professionals, for the topics are covered in detail. Last but not least, the dictionary is published by DK, i.e. it's a Dorling Kindersley Book, a Penguin Company.

I give it 5 stars because it does an excellent job of presenting the top 5 European languages in an easily comparable way. It will NOT teach you a language. But it's intriguing to see word similarities. I've studied all 5 languages (and am currently studying German full-time). I can't say whether folks who have no background in any more than one of the languages would find the book as much fun as I do. But as soon as I saw it I wanted a copy. Too bad it's out of print, although Amazon still has copies available (3-6 weeks' wait).

I'm the kind of person that uses english as second language and I need to expand my vocabulary at Health and Sport areas mainly. Very good book, old-school style I would say. Happy with my purchase.

Although, in theory, one might consider books such as this helpful in achieving fluency in five languages simultaneously, this is false. Anyone who speaks more than two languages knows that we store each language in its own special place in our brain, and that location is determined by similarity to other languages also located in our brain. So, when learning Swedish, all of my errors were in German. Never did I mistakenly select a French word while attempting to speak Swedish. Similarly, when learning Italian, never did I reach for a German word by accident. My mistakes were nearly always in Spanish (occasionally in French). The best example of all may be Japanese, for which there was no transfer effect whatsoever. Every mistake I make in Japanese is just bad Japanese, not a word from one of my other languages. The point is: due to the compartmentalization of languages, this type of book does not facilitate language learning. While I am a big advocate of simultaneous translation, this book, unlike dual language literary texts, offers only individual words, not phrases, for the many colorful entries presented. I will say that the book is filled with photographs, and this is its true virtue. You may have been wondering how to describe a particular food item in German, Spanish, Italian and French. If so, you may be able to find out the answer to your question here. The sections are thematically arranged, so you can turn quickly to your area of interest, say, auto care, to find out all of the vocabulary that you are looking for. But, of course, a person only needs car part vocabulary when dealing with a broken car, which can happen in only one country at a time.

I found this book most helpful in tutoring adult ESL. When tutoring one might have a Spanish speaker one hour and a student from Vietnam or Ivory Coast who may have some second language knowledge of French the next hour. Importantly, the pictures are engaging, clear and interesting. Now, I miss this book because it passed the ultimate test: it was stolen from the tutoring center.

I love my dictionary that I bought from amazon.com. In fact, the price was just perfect and I enjoy using it everyday. I think buying books from amazon.com is worth it.

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The paperback version measures approximately 7 inches by 6 inches and is under 1 inch thick; this makes it easy to carry around. The contents page is exactly the same as the one in the larger hardback version, as is the page layout. I'm quite pleased with it.

I don’t like when you bought one of the languages before they take the language out of the visual dictionary vocal translation, for the 5 language because you have it separate that’s annoying and confusing

I really like this book. We have two now for remote quizzes with my girls at college Really simple to use and accurate Languages are fantastic and this book brings words and pictures from 5 languages alive Great book

Brilliant 5 language visual dictionary - English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Brilliant for taking on holiday, also bought extra copies for my great grandchildren just learning foreign languages at school.

Great book for anyone learning multiple languages

Thanks so much Amazon nice book

Brilliant book.

Lo compré porque estoy aprendiendo inglés pero pensando en que sirve para ir de viaje también. La aplicación para escuchar las palabras es genial porque aunque es muy básica es sencilla y cumple su función. Calidad-precio no se puede pedir más. Lo volvería a comprar.

Está muy bien y trae bastante vocabulario. Quizás echo en falta algunas palabras más comunes, pero no está mal para perfeccionar vocabulario. Eso sí, no seáis como yo y usadlo... xD.

El libro es muy práctico. Tiene unas dimensiones de 15x18x2.3 cm aproximadamente. En general aborda sustantivos, y tiene algunas listas de verbos relativos a varios grupos de palabras específicas, como relacionados a deportes, plantas, finanzas, etc.

Best book, audio app facility it's handy best purchase I ever did I feel. Thank you 🙏