Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary with Free Audio App (DK Bilingual Visual Dictionary)
£8.70£9.50 (-8%)
Learning Mandarin Chinese has never been this easy.
This trusty travel companion features comprehensive definitions and colourful images of daily life, helping you appreciate the nuances of the language and master pronunciation.
Keep the Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Dictionary by your side as you shop, eat, socialise, travel, and work. With more than 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme and an easy-to-use audio app guiding you, learning and retaining key terms is simple. Inside you’ll discover key nouns, verbs, and phrases, and a detailed index for instant reference.
Simplified Chinese characters, along with clear instructions for accurate pronunciation in the Pinyin accent, help you further enhance your Mandarin reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. From names of dishes and seasons of the year to parts of the body and furniture around the house, find everything at your fingertips with this practical and stimulating dictionary.
The Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Dictionary has been updated to include modern technology and contemporary ways of life, and reflects the changes the language has undergone.
Whether travelling for business or for pleasure, remember to pack this comprehensive yet accessible bilingual dictionary.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (1 Feb. 2018), DK |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 360 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780241317563 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241317563 |
| Dimensions | 14 x 2.4 x 16.5 cm |
by Carlota
Both my mom and I are ecstatic with the fast arrival of the book, as we both have been learning Chinese for something close to two years. The dictionary is really nice! It’s got all sorts of vocabulary, listed by topic; words are easy to find and easy to understand.
The fact that it has an audio component is especially nice!
We enjoy talking daily in Chinese but, sometimes, we lack the words for certain common objects, and I’m sure this dictionary will come in handy for that! The fact that the book itself is small will make it easier to bring with us when we go out.
My only complaint is that the letters themselves are a bit too small.
by Martina
i love these visual dictionaries, great quality and so many things in them. already have one in Spanish and french too.
great as starting point
by Loonwolf
I bought this as someone new to Mandarin wanting a dictionary to begin learning. This was getting universally great reviews and recommendations so I thought I’d go for it. The pictures would be pointless, but perhaps they could be a good memory aid, to actually see the things that you are talking about while you are learning the words. But it turns out this was a big mistake. As a beginner you want to be learning all the most common words, but with the limited number available in this book, it is missing many common words that I already learned, or came across before, and instead it is filled with a lot of the most absurdly rare words that you will never use in your life. So it’s a good reference book for rarer words, grouped into subjects, like science and medicine.
This subject-based way of searching, with words randomly scattered all over the pages is not a very efficient way to find words. And the indexes, instead of just telling you the translation of a word, it tells you the page that you have to find, and then search the page to find the word you are looking for. And sometimes it’s multiple pages if the word is referenced multiple times, or may be a different word with the same sound, so you have to laboriously check them all. And of course each word has only ONE translation, and no more information than that. It’s pretty useless, especially when that translation is different to what you’ve already learned, so you’re just confused, and you can’t even trust any of the translations because they’re just not detailed enough, and they contradict information from other books!
In summary, get a PROPER bilingual lexicon, that has ALL the most COMMON words, with proper definitions which actually help you understand what the words mean and how they are correctly used!
by Siqi Chen
Useful
by pierre
This is another excellent visual reference book from DK.
It has an extensive vocabulary that covers many aspects of
modern life.
My only critique is that there should have been more
visual representation of the Chinese people and their
culture.
by Claire shaw
Great book
by Amazon Customer
The familiar Dorling Kindersley style employed to maximum effect with contents arranged by theme with excellent illustrations. Apart from any thing else its just fun to spend time looking through the pages!
by Amazon Customer
Great help in my language class