The Oxford-Duden Pictorial German-English Dictionary

by Oxford University Press

Book Overview

The Oxford-Duden Pictorial German and English Dictionary, Second Edition identifies over 29,000 objects by means of numbered illustrations and offers at a glance their German and English terms. This new edition has been completely updated and revised to include the most recent innovations in science and technology and to offer increased coverage of all major fields of reference.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198645023
• ISBN13: 9780198645023
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 872 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Fun Reference

A great noun builder for intermediate to advanced students of German (or German-speaking students of English), this book will help you attain a degree of precision in your vocabulary that would be difficult to achieve any other way without a substantial investment of time. The dictionary is arranged by subject areas varying from the highly technical (e.g. precision instrument parts) to the everyday (e.g. tableware). About one-fourth of the volume is taken up by the index which is eminently helpful if you want to quickly find the translation of a particular word without having to wade through the many subject areas. This edition did not incorporate the recent German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) which effected only a small proportion ofthe German vocabulary and for most purposes is a relatively minor distraction. Well-suited for browsing (a rare quality for a dictionary) and very different from most other language learning resources, consider this book a must-have for the serious language student.

Wunderbar!!!!!

This book is amazing. If you have already got passed the basics of German and want to build your vocabulary SIGNIFICANTLY, this book is for you. (You even DON'T need to know a thing about German, it's one of those books that you pick up and start learning immediately.) What impresses me about this book are two aspects: *First are how many topics it covers: Everything from human anatomy to roofing material. From street- cleaning supplies to mathematics. From hairstyles to botany. From music notation to aircraft. From.... it just never ends. *Second is how the book is formatted: when you open the book you'll see that each section has a diagram. For example take "recording studio." The page will have an illustration of a typical recording studio and have numbers on all of the different equipment (including the people). Then next to the picture will be a list of those corresponding numbers with the German word, then the English translation. Trust me, if you want to improve your German, this is a priceless tool!!

German - English (and American English)

This is the most comprehensive vocabulary book for nouns - even in technical areas - that I have ever encountered. I have not seen another book like it. The bulk of the book is arranged by subject and the back contains all the vocabulary words arranged alphabetically cross-referencing with the subject section. This book is a must-have. It is a reference book. An earlier review mentions it is English not American. In my version (2nd Ed.), the American translations are in parentheses next to the English where there is a difference. There is no problem.

German Pictorial Review

Having lived in Germany for five years I found this book extremely helpful. You can look up the area you may need information on and "voila" there is the picture and you can see what it is called in English and German. It has every situation. It has the following sections and then subsections under these. Atom, Universe, Earth Man and his Social Environment Nature as Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry Trades, Crafts and Industry and More, More and More. If you need your car fixed in Germany and you have questions on what you call a part you just go to this book and look in the automobile section and you will see very detailed pictures of a car and you find your part, the English word for it and the German word for it. If you are still having troule communicating just show them the picture. This book well deserves six stars

Extraordinary Vocabulary Builder

The Duden pictorial dictionary is a phenomenon. Instead of embracing the look-up-a-word style of conventional dictionaries, Duden allows you to browse by subject. If your topic is, say, the mechanical parts of an automobile, you turn to that page and you see an in-depth illustration with numbers, and on the bottom half of the page is a list with the word in German and English for what the number corresponds to. This book is indispensible for learning technical terms not found in most dictionaries, and includes many subjects...sports (even fencing), gambling, automotive, general knowledge, etc...anyone who is going to work for a German firm or wants to increase their vocabulary on an every-day basis should get this book....it is truly exceptional.