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Mandarin Chinese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) Paperback – June 2, 2015

Mandingo Edition by DK (Author)

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Part of: DK Bilingual Visual Dictionary (6 books)

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Newly revised and updated, the Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is a quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday words in Mandarin Chinese.

The Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary introduces a range of useful current vocabulary in thematic order, using full-color photographs and artworks to display and label all the elements of everyday life — from the home and office to sport, music, nature, and the countries of the world — with panel features on key nouns, verbs, and useful phrases.

The Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary features:

A quick and intuitive way to learn and remember thousands of words.
A complete range of illustrated objects and scenes from everyday life.
Fast and effective learning for any situation, from home and office to shopping and dining out.
Detailed index for instant reference.
Handy size ideal for travel.

The illustrations in the Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary provide a quick and intuitive route to learning a language, defining the words visually so it is easier to remember them and creating a colorful and stimulating learning resource for the foreign-language and EFL/ESL student.

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360
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Mandingo
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DK
Publication date

2015
June 2
Dimensions

5.5 x 1.0 x 6.5
inches
ISBN-10

1465436332
ISBN-13

978-1465436337
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DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world's leading illustrated reference publisher and part of Penguin Random House, formed on July 1, 2013. DK publishes highly visual, photographic nonfiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 87 countries and in 62 languages, with offices in Delhi, London, Melbourne, Munich, New York, and Toronto. DK's aim is to inform, enrich, and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivalled clarity to a wide range of topics with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery, and parenting. DK’s extensive children’s list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers, and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the bestselling LEGO® books. DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series and Prima Games, video gaming publishers, as well as the award-winning travel publisher, Rough Guides.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DK; Bilingual, Reprint edition (June 2, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ Mandingo, English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1465436332
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1465436337
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 6.5 inches

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Ly Zeng

Such an Essential tool

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023

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It's a user friendly essential for language enthusiasts, featuring a comprehensive database. It's a must have tool for mastering the richness of the chinese language.

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Alan N. OKain

Excellent Language Aid

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023

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Excellent aid to increasing vocabulary. Its true pictures tell a thousand words.

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Weizhen Zhong

One of my Favorite handy book for English

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023

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This book separates all common topics into different categories, it's so convenient to understand the meaning of the word with visual images and translations. The app that could be downloaded from the app store is also a plus to this book for pronunciation.
However, the downside of the app is also very obvious; it cannot search for a certain word like a dictionary. The only function of the search bar in the app is to show the content of that page. You'll need to have the book on hand in order to find the right page. Hope they can update the app for a better reading experience.

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M.M.

Not bad

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023

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This is pretty complete and has a lot of words you might otherwise not learn elsewhere. I did see some errors like 穴 having a different tone in the book from the tone in the app. Also, the word for beard was translated as 面包, which means bread (beard is 胡子). As mentioned in other reviews, the family relationships section leaves something to be desired. I would say overall it’s very good and worth the price. It might have been nice to have more Chinese plants and vegetables shown instead of just focusing on the Western ones.

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Don

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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2023

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Very helpful book for my friend

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ChazerC

Love it! So much detail.

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016

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This book is absolutely fantastic for learning every day vocabulary. Most of the language courses that I've seen teach you the basic phrases and you have to rely on google or dictionaries to try and determine what the words are for other items, but the way this is laid out is perfect. And it is extremely in depth with every detail named. Ex: in the picture of a water heater they have it broken down into 10+ words for each little part that you may have to know if yours is having issues. It is amazing how in depth this is. From emotions, to body parts, to hair color, to kitchen utensils, to sports, tools and hardware, gardening, etc. Not really a con but be warned that the human anatomy diagrams are graphic 3D representations and not suitable for children, as you can clearly see the details of the male/female anatomy and names multiple parts of sexual organs.

Pros: So much information. Literally everything is labeled.

Cons: Tiny print. Maybe size 8-10 font which is not a huge deal in some language, but it makes it very hard to see the tone accents with this very small font.

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Jerome B.

Outstanding! The Audio Download Very Helpful with Pronounciation

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2019

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I was so impressed with the book and it's audio download of both the English, as well as Chinese words, that I bought copies for my Chinese friends in China to help with their learning English. But I was sadly disappointed that the audio files can't be downloaded into phones used in China. The download stores that we use in America can't be accessed over the Chinese controlled internet.
Additionally, the size of the type used in the book is too small. It's very hard to make out he "tone symbols" above the words.
Short of these two flaws, the book is an outstanding product. Just make the book a little larger to read more clearly, and provide a download site of the audio files to that the speaking portion of the book can be used by Chinese citizens.

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Browniebrownfwy

Future DOCTOR BETHANY

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2018

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My Grand Daughter Bethany who’s 9 years old Is Extremely Smart 🎓 and wants to become a Doctor! She started taking Mandarin 2 yrs ago 2 hours a week at her School and wants to excel in her New Found Language! Sooooo this year 2018 Bethany was Honored With Student of the Month as Well as Student of The Month in Mandrin🦋 So I Gift Her With This Dictionary. She was elated and Super Stoked when she unwrapped her Present from Grandma! It is Her FAVORITE.
What I Love the Most It also translates in English and With Pictures As Well. We All Need A Great Doctor But much so! One that will be able to Speak Mandrin😍 Next I will Gift Bethany With An ASL AMERICAN SIGN-LANGUAGE BOOK! Cause Her Grandma(ME) Has Been teaching her Signs since she was 3 yrs old😶 Although I’m Not Deaf I Just Love Their World💚

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chun wah cheng

Plenty of words illustrated.

Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2022

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Lots of areas covered. Good reference book for learning English. For elderly people, you might wish the letters to be larger.

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Livre utile

Reviewed in France on January 20, 2022

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Attention ! beaucoup de vocabulaire spécialisé/ technique. Parfait pour les apprenants ayant une vocation ou un domaine de compétence dont ils auront à parler (médecine, sport, musique...).

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Loonwolf

Not a good dictionary, but somewhat useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2019

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I bought this as someone new to Mandarin wanting a dictionary to begin learning. This was getting universally great reviews and recommendations so I thought I'd go for it. The pictures would be pointless, but perhaps they could be a good memory aid, to actually see the things that you are talking about while you are learning the words. But it turns out this was a big mistake. As a beginner you want to be learning all the most common words, but with the limited number available in this book, it is missing many common words that I already learned, or came across before, and instead it is filled with a lot of the most absurdly rare words that you will never use in your life. So it's a good reference book for rarer words, grouped into subjects, like science and medicine.

This subject-based way of searching, with words randomly scattered all over the pages is not a very efficient way to find words. And the indexes, instead of just telling you the translation of a word, it tells you the page that you have to find, and then search the page to find the word you are looking for. And sometimes it's multiple pages if the word is referenced multiple times, or may be a different word with the same sound, so you have to laboriously check them all. And of course each word has only ONE translation, and no more information than that. It's pretty useless, especially when that translation is different to what you've already learned, so you're just confused, and you can't even trust any of the translations because they're just not detailed enough, and they contradict information from other books!

In summary, get a PROPER bilingual lexicon, that has ALL the most COMMON words, with proper definitions which actually help you understand what the words mean and how they are correctly used!

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Paloma

Basic. Lacking some important words and having too many of others that aren't as important

Reviewed in Brazil on December 13, 2021

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This dictionary has most words you may need, but certainly does not have anything related to China.

It doesn't have any Chinese food, any Chinese festival whatsoever, "chopsticks", nothing about the Chinese currency... Honestly, this is a shame and a lost opportunity. You'll also not know what Santa Claus is called in Chinese.

Important: it does NOT have the measure words/classifiers.

Strangely does not contain the word "air", "fire", "dirt", etc. It has many complex words, but lacks a bunch of simple ones.
A few of the words that are missing come along with other words, like "air filter", but there's no photo or word for "air". The word "Pollution" and most environmental friendly words are also missing, like solar energy and wind power.

I've also noticed that it also doesn't have modern words like "Uber", "Google", "McDonald's", "SIM card", "selfie", etc. It may have a whole section about computers, but no "to go online", "to click". I've seen another picture dictionary that has them and it's a much simpler dictionary.

Surprisingly, it doesn't even have a section for the foreign languages, so you won't know what any language is called. There's a section of animals, but no "dinosaur". It's really strange.
In addition, I think it has too many words of different sports. They're too detailed. The space and size of the photos could've been used to put more important words.
I saw some repeated words, like "glove" and "pâté".
There's many foods, even ones that I don't know, but there's no "donuts" or "pancake". I could go on and on.

If you want a small visual dictionary (yes, it's small like people have been saying it is, but personally it's not way too small for me) that has most words you may need, buy it.

I think whoever made this was lazy because they didn't want to dedicate 5-10 pages to Chinese culture, which is a shame. I could've bought another dictionary, but this one is small, which is good for what I wanted to use it for.
I just don't like that other dictionaries have everything that this one is lacking.

There's always a trade off, though. I chose to write the missing words in flash cards and put them in the dictionary. I suggest that you get the PDF of the first edition of this book, that you can easily find online for free, and see if words available are enough for you. I don't think there's much of a difference between the first and second edition. It think they basically just added modern objects and got rid of the old ones.

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Orti

Useful

Reviewed in Germany on October 30, 2020

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Useful, although a Mandarin speaking friend complain that some common words are not the most used ones, but that is good enough. The android app does not work properly. The iphone one does.

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