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Affordable, compact, thoroughly up-to-date and packed with extra features, these intermediate-level Pocket dictionaries provide greater bilingual coverage and more pointers on grammar than ever before. They offer a complete guide to contemporary foreign languages and English, as well as extensive help with grammar. In these new editions, the Pocket dictionaries each include a brand new thirty-two page grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of that language. This supplement, along with a guide to grammatical terms, will provide invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read, and write the language. All of this grammar help is combined with a dictionary offering wide-ranging vocabulary--with more words, phrases, and translations than previous editions. Verb tables, an A-Z guide to the life and culture of the countries the languages represent, as well as example letters, emails, postcards, and resumes add further communication help.
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Affordable, compact, thoroughly up-to-date and packed with extra features, this intermediate-level Spanish dictionary offers a complete guide to contemporary Spanish and English as well as extensive help with grammar. This edition includes a brand new 32-page grammar supplement that focuses on the key points of Spanish grammar. This supplement, along with a guide to grammatical terms, will provide invaluable support to anyone learning to speak, read, and write Spanish. All of this grammar help is combined with a dictionary offering wide-ranging vocabulary--over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 130,000 translations. Verb tables, an A-Z guide to Spanish life and culture, as well as example letters, emails, postcards, and resumes add further communication help.
Synopsis
This third edition of the Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English, with brand-new words in each language. The grammar supplement provides full information on all the key points of Spanish and English grammar, including verb tables for quick reference, and a correspondence section gives example letters, emails, resumes, and new help with text messaging. Because language is now studied in the context of its culture, the existing culture section has been revised and expanded to offer lively and useful information on life in the Spanish-speaking world. This is the perfect reference for anyone needing an affordable, portable Spanish dictionary.
Table of Contents
' Structure of a Spanish-English entry
Structure of an English-Spanish entry
The pronunciation of Spanish
Abbreviations and lables
Spanish-English dictionary
Calendar of traditions, festivals, and holidays in Spanish-speaking countries
A-Z of Spanish-speaking countries of the world
Letter-writing
English-Spanish dictionary
Spanish verbs
Glossary of grammatical terms
Numbers
Weights and measures
Spanish grammar
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