Berlitz Pocket Dictionary Chinese-English [Chinese]

By: Berlitz Publishing Staff

Berlitz Mass Market Chinese Dictionary features thousands of entries, precise grammar and pronunciation guide, and an appendix loaded with helpful cultural and language information, these handy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 9812464131
• ISBN13: 9789812464132
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Berlitz Publishing
• Length: 671 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

berlitz did good job.

One of the most practical for the money.It even has slangs with it. It has same presentation and words as the Insight-pocket-travel-dictionary and Langenscheidt's-dictionary but with Larger prints. The only improvement I suggest would be the soft cover. It should have been more flexible that would help readers open it FLAT easily.

Excellent value with easy-to-read fonts

This compact paperback is the best value simplified Chinese-English dictionary that I have found. It has 40,000 entries, which covers most words in everyday use.The English-Chinese section has the pinyin transliteration for each word. (Pinyin is the Romanized written version of Chinese that uses accents to indicate the correct tones). Where a word can have a different translation depending on the context, this is clearly indicated.The Chinese-English section is ordered alphabetically, English-style, according to its pinyin pronunciation. There is a list of radicals at the front of the book for when you don't know the correct mainland Mandarin pronunciation.Very importantly for a portable dictionary, the paper is high quality and the fonts are large and clear enough not to be unreasonably eye-straining. There is also a short list of common Taiwanese equivalents to Mandarin Chinese, spelled in pinyin and traditional Chinese.