Tuttle's Concise Indonesian Dictionary: English-Indonesian Indonesian-English

by Willie Koen, A.L.N. Kramer, Katherine Davidsen

Book Overview

This is the most up-to-date Indonesian Dictionary on the market Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary has both Indonesian to English and English to Indonesian sections. Its compact size allows for easy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804818649
• ISBN13: 9780804818643
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.5" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Great little dictionary

Great small dictionary that would be easy to keep with you when travelling or studying. Very good lay out and colored for easy reference.

indonesian dictionary

high quality, good price, arrived on time, will do business with this company in the futures.

Great Revision of Old Classic

This is a vast improvement over the old Tuttle Indonesian dictionary. An attempt was made to define specific versions of an Indonesian word rather than have the user wade through a long list of variants. The printed page is much more attractive and the binding much better (for the past 2 years, the old Tuttle has been in pieces fluttering around my room). This is a must buy for Indonesian word users due to the inexpensive price and careful and exciting revision. And please -- throw away your exhaustively worn previous Tuttle paperbacks before they totally rot!!

Another small pocket dictionary but this one packs a punch

There seems to be a few small concise combined phrase books and dictionaries floating around on bookshop shelves these days. The dictionaries are usually very limited in these books due to size constraints. This one however is a pure dictionary which is surprisingly comprehensive although very compact. I use this to learn the Indonesian language and it is useful to have both Indonesian to English and English to Indonesian translations. The print is quite small which could be hard to read depending on your eyesight but the words are written in blue followed by a definition in black which makes them stand out and be more easily found. Pronounciations are not included however, so if you're learning the language its probably best to do so with the help of additional aids used in conjunction with this book. However, I find this book indispensible for finding meanings of words that are not used in common vocabulary. A good book overall and I can recommend it for people studying the language.

The Best Pocket Dictionary You Will Find!

This is pretty much the best cheap, pocket-sized Indonesian dictionary you can find. Given the size, you obviously can't expect it to be truly comprehensive or to give exhaustive advice on when to use certain words or how to pronounce them (luckily, Indonesian is almost completely phonetically written so this is not a major issue), but it will give you the most reliable translation of most words you will need. It is also very accurate, free of the errors that abound in most of the cheap, locally published dictionaries you would find in Indonesia itself. I would definitely recommend it to travellers, though of course "serious" language learners will also need to have heavier dictionaries they would probably never lug around the archipelago. In fact I can share a tip with those headed for Indonesia: local editions of this dictionary (recognizable by having the same authors, a tiny size and a red plastic cover - also by checking the scanned image of it uploaded here) are readily available in Gramedia bookstores in major cities of Indonesia for a fraction of the price overseas.