Collins Easy Learning Italian Dictionary [Italian]

I do like this dictionary, as a Beginner's dictionary. I really like the easy to read print and blue-colored heading of each word. Some words have contextual to help you use them in the correct sense. (The larger English-Italian "Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary" has even more words and contextual sentences.) Something I really like about the Harper-Collins dictionary is the blue coded section of pages in the middle. This section has lots of quick information including numbers, phrases, telling time, a huge verb section with verb tables, and a great little section called False Friends. False Friends shows you many words that sound like English words but mean something completely different in context. It gives sentences to help you understand the correct meaning of the "False Friend" word, and then gives a sentence with the correct Italian word that you might think the False Friend word meant. For example (from the book): "Un bambino fastidioso." --> actually means "An annoying child." <br />"Very fastidious." would actually be --> "Molto pignola." <br /> <br />"Questo rumore" --> actually means "That noise" <br />"There's a rumour that..." would actually be --> "Corre voce che..." <br /> <br />False Friends reminds you that you can't always "fake" your way through a conversation. The language barrier could lead to confusion or embarrassment! <br /> <br />I would definitely get this dictionary for most of your quick English-Italian needs, especially your portable ones. But I recommend also getting a more comprehensive dictionary like the English-Italian "Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary" to go along with it.

It is the best dictionary for beginners out there. I bought one from L series (yellow cover) and returned it, because I found this in B & N. Really clear to understand, and in the middle you have th list of all the verbs, and some general info. Recommended. If I could I'd give it 10 stars.

One of the BETTER dictionaries, at a good price....Like the little extras included !

Sometimes it's hard to know how to use the new words and phrases. This dictionary has lots of examples to show you how to use them in everyday language, and that's what important for beginners, right? Comparing to those dictionaries that only give you the meaning of words but not how to use them, this dictionary is a lot more useful.

No reviews for this? Are you kidding me! I mean is this book good or is this book good? Fuggetaboutit, its the best beginers dictionary there was ever made. I know because I have been to 3 different bookstores comparing about 15 different editions and this one was won out very easily. It's 640 pages, 60 of them belong to a mini-grammar section in the middle of the two dictionaries ie:(english/italian---grammar section---italian/english) You can not go wrong with this book, I know you will love it.