Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary

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Fantastic content ... shame about the binder! (7/7 people found this helpful)

This dictionary is perfect for any beginner or intermediate student of Italian. It has just the right amount of information for every word - little enough to make it perfect for whipping out of your handbag for a quick reference when necessary, and detailed enough to give phrasal examples of the word in question. If you are buying an Italian-English dictionary for the first time, then I strongly recommend you buy this one - not one of those [...] tiny ones. This dictionary will prove invaluable when you actually need to USE new vocabulary as it also provides the most common structures and expressions which use the words. I've been using it for over a year and still find it as useful now as I did when I was just beginning to learn Italian. I used it during my stay in Italy and it was never out of my handbag!

Unfortunately, if you plan to carry this book around in your handbag you might want to carry some selotape too. I've just read the previous reader's review on this book and while I disagree with his/her opinions on the quality of this dictionary, I have to agree strongly on one thing: THIS BOOK FALLS APART AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS! Oxford University Press, you need to package this book better! At the moment, my Italian dictionary is full of selotape and staples! I really don't understand it because I have the same Oxford dictionary in French (which has even more pages) and it's lasted me for 2 years now without so much as a page falling out. My advice to Oxford University Press is to make sure that in future they use whoever binds their French dictionaries for this one also. In my opinion, it's the book's only (major) flaw. In fact, this is why I'm currently browsing this section in Amazon - I'm forced to buy a new dictionary, and so this time I'm hoping I can find one that stays in one piece!

My verdict: If the publishers can remedy the packaging problem, then this is the best first Italian-English dictionary you can purchase.

Potrebbe provare di piu (could try harder).... (9/11 people found this helpful)

We moved to Italy early this year. My husband is fluent in Italian, I could not speak a word. To supplement my Italian classes I bought this dictionary (ISBN 0-19-860007-0) - all I can say is that the first edition needs a rapid revision. It clearly has not been compiled by native Italian speakers with excellent linguistic skills: on too many occasions I have utilised words and phrases taken from this dictionary, to find that either my Italian teacher and/or my husband needed to correct their usage (too often the context given in the dictionary was not correct).

The review is misleading when it suggests there is pronunciation assistance for every headword in Italian and English - two half pages cover the subject in summary format, in a book circa 700 pages long. This fact particularily irritated me.

To add insult to injury the binding is such that with fairly frequent use, my copy started to dis-integrate by month four.

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