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35,000 entries and 6,000 color images from the arts, science, nature, industry and more. Do you know what that comb with the uneven teeth is called? Do you know the Spanish name for it? With The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary, finding and translating the names of thousands of objects, animals, and plants in five major languages is fast, simple and fun. The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary is an unparalleled reference to the world around us. Six thousand color illustrations are labeled in the five languages showing in color what other dictionaries can only describe in text. All the clear, concise illustrations are organized into a series of fully indexed sections. Each key word and phrase is connected to the detailed illustrations making identification and translations quick and accurate. The scope and depth of this reference are immense, covering an incredibly detailed range of terms for: Astronomy and Earth Flora, fauna and humans Food, kitchen and around the house Gardening, clothing, articles Arts and architecture Communications, transport and machinery Energy, science and society Sports and games. This edition is ideal for anyone learning Spanish, French, German and Italian or those learning English as a second language.
Hardcover: 1100 pages
Publisher: Firefly Books; Mul edition (August 7, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1552977781
ISBN-13: 978-1552977781
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.1 x 2.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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I am a teacher of foreign languages and own a number of visual dictionaries, including the Firefly Five Language Dictionary, the Firefly Spanish/English Dictionary, the Firefly Mini Spanish/English Dictionary, and the DK Five Language Visual Dictionary. I prefer the Firefly dictionaries because they tactfully include the gender of words as a superscript after the word rather than as an indirect article, as in the DK dictionary. The latter has the ill-effect of creating ambiguous genders in instances where the indirect article is truncated:For example: garlic - l'ail - der Knoblauch - el ajo - l'aglioThe size of this hardcover edition make it more appropriate for use as a desk dictionary rather than a pocket edition. The Firefly Five Language Dictionary contains almost twice as many pages and words as the Firefly Spanish/English Visual Dictionaries. Given that the image layouts used in all of the Firefly dictionaries are from a common master, the page count is a very good indication of the word count. The faint of heart may want to consider getting a bilingual version in order to avoid confusion between languages. Although words are consistently listed in the five languages in the same order, it can still be overwhelming and confusing at times when words are very similar across languages.As with any visual dictionary, this one focuses on nouns. Students of the Spanish will still want to have a quality pocket bilingual dictionary.
Discovered this wonderful, fun book in the home of a relative living in France. If you are a lover of languages (European at any rate) it will amaze and delight you. It is not suitable for learners of the said languages as it only has nouns but I have never seen such a comprehensive collection of detailed words and phrases ranging from the components of a car to many different kinds of fruit. I spent several happy hours just browsing. Cannot understand why it is not a best seller all over Europe!
This book is excellent for those persons whom work in multi-language settings. This book is not designed to teach a given language rather to teach job specific nouns. (i.e. To teach a mechanic the names of all the minute engine parts.) It gives nouns that would not be found in traditional dictionaries, and it can be a bit overwhelming due to its extensiveness.
This is the ultimate visual dictionary and in five languages too. 6,000 color pictures illustrate the meaning of 35,000 terms in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. I love this book! Has almost everything you could think of in it. Yes, it has only nouns but i would still get it. It really helps me learn words easier when i have a picture to go with it. The pictures almost look real at times even though i know they are digitally rendered.The items are placed in categories which are color coded and also has indexes in all five languages.The categories are as follows:*Astronomy*Earth*Vegetable Kingdom*Animal Kingdom*Human Being*Food and Kitchen*House*Do-it-yourself and Gardening*Clothing*Personal Adornment and Articles*Arts and Architecture*Communications and Office Automation*Transport and Machinery*Energy*Science*Society*Sports and GamesSuch a wonderful visual dictonary for most anybody!
I would re-purchase this item if I lost it. I found it to be a great help and found some dispointments as well. This picture dictonary is complete; more than I needed with terms that I would never need to know. The picture dictonary is very thick therefore it's spine fragile and is not ideal to take commuting. There are many terms that would not normal be used in daily conversions; making the dictonary harder to rifle through for high frequence words. I did like how the terms were filed over the picture in a order that does not change from English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian with gender article markers. Other than it's size the only other complaint I have about it is that it only list nouns.
This book is awe inspiring. I have never been so amazed by a purchase before. The two most amazing things about it are: it's astonishingly high quality, and it's astonishingly reasonable price. If you want to see beautiful, highly detailed, full-color pictures of nearly all the every-day objects in our world, from parts of the body to types of fishes, animals and birds, sumo wrestlers, fire fighters, household items, manufacturing machinery, computers, clothes ... these are just random selections from over 900 pages. Each picture is labeled in all 5 languages, most pictures are further analyzed into parts, which are also labeled. What it is NOT: it is not lightweight; it is not a travel companion; It is not for people who just want to learn one or two hundred words of a foreign language. It IS for people who really like to know the names of lots of detailed items (many of which I don't even know yet in English) in English, Spanish, French, German, and/or Italian. 5 stars isn't enough. This is a *spectacular* buy.
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