Product Description

This edition has been revised to offer up-to-date coverage of modern Russian in a handy, portable format. Including the most important words and phrases in English and Russian, the text offers accurate and reliable coverage of the language. In addition, the most common words have been given more detailed treatment in order to make them easier for the user to understand and translate. This edition offers entries on life and culture in Russia, Britain, and the US, and a glossary of business words in Russian and English. Presented in a handy, portable format, and with a clear, user-friendly layout, the Collins Russian Gem Dictionary should prove a useful reference tool for office, home, travel, and study.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211704 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 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 Russian Gem contains all the basic terms you need to make yourself understood in Russian, and a great deal more - around 75,000 words in all.

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.

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

Best of the Russian minidictionaries
This is a very handy portable reference book. It is easy to use because each page is well laid out and it uses a font that is pleasant to look at (unlike the Oxford minidictionary) - this is important, as it makes a difference to how easy it is to find a word and explore it's possible uses in different contexts. I have found that the entries give clear, useful examples of the different uses of each word.