This new edition of the Oxford French Minidictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential vocabulary with more than 100,000 words, phrases, and translations. Other key features include warning symbols to identify slang and informal language.
Searchable Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionaries, based on the Oxford Spanish dictionary. Databases contain 170,000 words and phrases and 240,000 translations.
This new edition has been expanded to include over 1000 new headwords with particular attention paid to money, email technology, pastime and leisure, ecology, medical terms, sports and professions. Existing entries have been made fuller and more comprehensive.* Updated for 2004 with over 1000 new entries covering: IT (web page, web site, gigabyte, chatroom); money (one euro coin, with value of euro compared to old currency); communications (text message, long-distance call), leisure (action replay, abseiling; bicycle lane), religion; even includes SARS.* Colour headwords, phrases, verb tables and virtual alphabet tabs* New design to increase clarity of layout, 2 colour and with virtual alphabet tabs* Perfect for individual use as a quick reference tool or extended classroom work* Links to NLS Modern Languages curriculum - all syllabus words are includedNicholas Rollin is an experienced editor of bilingual dictionaries. Most recently he has been project manager for the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Academic, 2003). He is also the Chief editor of the Oxford Study Spanish Dictionary and Oxford School French Dictionary new editions 2004.
This new edition of the Oxford Spanish Minidictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential vocabulary with over 100,000 words, phrases, and translations.New to this edition are many new words in each language, as well as cultural notes giving an interesting and helpful insight into life in the Spanish-speaking world, and a guide to understanding menus. Other key features include warning symbols to identify slang and informal language, and specialusage notes to help the user find the right translation for frequently used words which are difficult to translate, because they appear in many different contexts. A unique phrasefinder groups together words and expressions from topics such as emergencies, shopping, and travelling, giving youinstant access to the phrases you need.All of these features are packed into a pocket-sized, durable format, and, with a brand-new text design and layout, this dictionary is more accessible and easy to use than ever before. It is the perfect language guide for holiday-makers, business people, and travellers.