Product Description

The Visual Five-Language Dictionary represents a breakthrough in language learning. Now covering English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, it visualizes words, situations, and concepts to help you learn and retain the language. With 3,600 colour images, it illustrates more than 20,000 words in each language. Covering 600 different subject areas, from the kitchen to the classroom, from sport to space, the updated illustrations take account of the latest developments in lifestyle, technology, and contemporary society. This is more than just a dictionary - the clear and detailed colour illustrations allow you to see the vocabulary for a subject in not one, but five different languages, at a glance. Each language has its own index allowing you to look up a word and quickly find the illustration you need, as well as a wealth of related words and ideas. Whether studying a single language at school or college, learning languages for fun, buying a home abroad and looking up tricky words, or simply browsing the rich variety of illustrations, this dictionary is the ultimate vocabulary finder.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #279823 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-03
• Original language: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish
• Binding: Hardcover
• 658 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource - highly recommended
This is a wonderful book. It contains colour-coded sections on subjects such as DIY, the animal kingdom, science, transport - the list goes on. Not only that, but it goes into enormous detail - I have learnt a number of new English words! As an example of the amount of detail, it has a picture of a fork, and not only do you see the word for fork, you also see the words for all the component parts of the fork. The pictures are beautiful and very clear.

One tiny caveat, though - it is very heavy and not at all portable; definitely a reference book, not one to carry about with you.

I am buying myself another copy so I can have one at home and one at work!

I can't recommend it highly enough.

Can't do without!
This is an absolutely wonderful book - very practical for anyone of any age. It not only covers the usual things like words for pens, food, animals etc but parts of the body, heating, car parts and accessories, office equipment, tools, plumbing systems. I could go on! A really useful book if living or travelling between two or more of these countries. I wish this had been published a long time ago!

Almost too much!
The amount of information in this book; not just a language dictionary but a general reference book of names of *everything*. It gives great detail on every subject and every object; I didn't know there were that many named parts of a trainer in English, let alone the other four languages. Definitely something for anyone studying two or more of these languages.