Product Description With the Practical Dictionary for Students, the Real Academia Espanola (Royal Academy of the Spanish Language) and the Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Espanola (Association of Academies of the Spanish Language) set out to provide a comprehensive resource for all students of the Spanish language.
It offers: 30,000 entries, a selection of the most commonly used and extended Anglicisms, conjugation rules, the cardinal rules of spelling, most frequently used synonyms, abbreviations and acronyms, families of words, as well as practical examples of use. It is a work conceived from all the Hispanic countries, which maintains a fundamental balance between the varieties in the language spoken in so many different regions.
Customer Reviews:
An exceptional dictionary at an excellent price... July 30, 2007 16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I am a teacher of foreign languages and a firm believer in migrating students to mono-lingual dictionaries in the target language as early as possible. This dictionary does a remarkable job of covering a vast array of Spanish in an attractive format.
It is blessed by the Real Academia Espanol, and my experience with it confirms that it meets the high expectations of its pedigree. In addition to providing a respectable variety and depth of definitions, including regional words like "checar", it provides numerous pages of Spanish grammar and fully conjugated Spanish verbs. I am currently using it to decipher some of the less common words in the Spanish version of Harry Potter, and have yet to stump it.
The book is of a manageable (though not pocket) size to fit in a duffel bag or backpack and yet the fonts are large enough to be easily readable. The use of blue keywords in contrast with the black definitions adds to both the ease of using this book and its general aesthetic appeal.
I enthusiastically recommend this book as a first dictionary in Spanish. I suspect it will serve even most college students of Spanish well. I plan on buying a class set for my room.
For those that outgrow this book, I can heartily recommend its larger cousin: Diccionario Esencial De La Lengua Espanola
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