Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish

This dictionary, which our teacher recommended, provides me with all (and more) that I need for my Continuing Education's beginner's Spanish class. Since I am a beginner, I cannot comment on how comprehensive it is, but this dictionary is very clear and very concise. Highly recommended.

I am reviving my high school Spanish of 35 years ago and own six Spanish-English dictionaries, including the giant versions of the Oxford and the Harper-Collins. This one is the best. I keep it on the passenger seat of my car when listening to Spanish radio here in the San Francisco area. The text is a pleasingly readable font. The best part is the examples of usage of the words, in phrases, compound words, etc. These examples increase in number as each publisher's dictionary gets larger and larger. These phrases are key to understanding the many meanings and nuances of a word (in Spanish or English), and this dictionary is tops in this department. It never fails that when I look up a word in Spanish I start browsing a few more nearby definitions and just start reading the darned thing! Each Spanish verb is referred to one of the 81 verb conjugations conveniently placed at the end of the book. There's enough here in almost 1200 pages to keep you very busy. I'm tempted to splurge for the jumbo Larousse unabridged edition, but I have enough dictionaries. I think.

This is an amazing mid-size desktop bilingual dictionary and it is one of best references that I own and value it dearly. Larousse is a leader in references in many of the popular spoken languages and their dictionaries usually are thorough and provide a wide variety of information. This one has over a 120,000 translations, a broad range of vocabulary, idioms that give examples of word usage for most of the words and a sample verb conjugation table at the back of the book. This dictionary is from 1994 but language does not change just new words get added to the language over time. Therefore it will definitely be lacking in all the latest information technology terms but will definitely have common everyday words and more. I highly recommend this dictionary for high-school students, Beginner to Intermediate university students, teach yourself students and just for everyday usage be it for professionals or on a personal level.

This is not my first Spanish-English dictionary, and it certainly won't be my last. My 1994-1997 copy of the Larousse dictionary is concise and very legible, well laid out and easy to read. It is suprisingly comprehensive for a pocket dictionary, and I can usually find the translation I am searching for.Unfortunately, I am an American studying Mexican spanish, and this dictionary often leads me astray as it is written for English people studying Spanish from Spain. My favorite obscure reference is for "lollypop lady", hardly a coloquial American phrase, and English definitions for Spanish words are occasionally equally baffling unless you are fluent in "English".An excellent dictionary for people interested in cross-cultural study.

This dictionary leaves no word left out. Each entry has all the possible ways you might want to use that word in a sentence, along with many common phrases.