Product Description

The fourth edition of the "Collins Portuguese Gem Dictionary" has been specially designed to meet the needs of learners of Portuguese. A new, easy-to-use layout makes it the ideal portable companion. Developed as part of the "Collins Education and Lifeskills" stream, this new edition has been written for all those studying Portuguese at school, for travel or for business. It is the ideal text for anyone who needs a wealth of reliable information in a portable format. Have confidence, the "Collins Portuguese Gem Dictionary" has been revised and updated to cover all the new words and phrases that learners will need to know. Get it right, the dictionary offers extra help with translating essential vocabulary, and thousands of useful phrases to show how Portuguese really works. The "Gem" includes a new phrase supplement, providing hundreds of the most useful phrases for holidaymakers and business travellers alike. Get there fast, presented in the attractive new Collins' typography, learners can quickly and easily find the information they need. Where does it fit in the range? The stream also includes: "Collins Portuguese Gem" 0-00-720875-8; "Collins Portuguese Express" 0-00-719643-1; and "Collins Portuguese Dictionary" 0-00-719659-8. Words are tools for life, and a "Collins dictionary" makes them work for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203874 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 574 pages

From the Publisher
One sold every eight seconds! Over the last 100 years, Collins' renowned Gems have become the best-loved and best-selling small dictionaries in the UK. The Portuguese Gem contains all the basic terms you need to make yourself understood in Portuguese, and a great deal more - around 75,000 words in all. We are constantly monitoring new terms in Portuguese and English with the aid of our innovative and extensive Language Banks, which means that the content is kept as current as possible.

The Gem has the twin benefits of being compact and portable - perfect for taking abroad with you or carrying round in your pocket! - yet easy to read, with a clear and distinctive layout. All the headwords appear in bold, making it simple to quickly scan a page for the word you are looking for, and the different senses of a word are marked by indicator labels to ensure that the correct translation is chosen every time.

The Keyword sections highlight important or frequently-used words such as "get", "do" and "in" and give them in-depth treatment. Added to this, the culture box feature provides helpful information about local culture and customs, for
example "capoeira" and "literatura de cordel". Whether you intend using this dictionary for work, travel or study, it couldn't be easier to make yourself sound like a native!!

Customer Reviews

my new best friend!
I bought this little dictionary because the one I already had (which I bought in Portugal) wasn't very good - a lot of the translations were wrong and many times I just couldn't find certain words in there. Not so with this little fella! It's thicker than my other one, because it's got everything in - every word I've needed so far has been in here. Also something I really like about this book is that it has little 'information boxes' dotted throughout the text, giving the reader some background information on some of the words. So it's like a bigger, more informative phrasebook/dictionary, but nice and tiny to fit in a pocket or a small space-saving shoulder bag. Oh and you can even look up a word and see that it's a different form of a verb because it tells you what the verb is - I've never seen that in a dictionary before! I'm so pleased with this book! It's essential for learning Portuguese!

good for portugeuse speakers studying english...
...but not the other way round. Why this is advertised as good for portugeuse learners I'll never know. I kept having to refer to the little phrase book at the back to decipher and backwards translate from the portugeuse.