Collins Spanish Dictionary - Hardcover

9780004701523: Collins Spanish Dictionary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0004701526 ISBN 13: 9780004701523

Publisher: Collins, 2000

The world’s leading Spanish-English dictionary fully revised and updated for the millennium.

Collins are proud to announce the publication in May 2000 of the sixth edition of Collins Spanish Dictionary, which represents the most fundamental revision of the text since the first edition. This revision fully reflects new evidence on words gathered from Collins’ unique multi-million corpora of contemporary English and Spanish and ensures the user has the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today.

New to this edition are the special layouts which highlight idioms and key lexical structures both in Spanish and English. In addition, the most complex entries have been given a special layout to make lookup quicker and easier. Coupled with this is the major revision of thousands of entries and examples presented in a new typography which makes Collins Spanish Dictionary the most modern, accurate and user-friendly Spanish-English dictionary for the millennium.

All the proven Collins features are retained – complete reliability, user-friendly language boxes, unique Language in Use guide to communication, the most up-to-date coverage and the clearest, most easy-to-use layout – simply the world’s most innovative Spanish-English dictionary.

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Acclaimed for its comprehensive vocabulary coverage, Collins' top-of-the-range Spanish Dictionary is the most authoritative and reliable Spanish dictionary on the market. Drawing on the vast resources of Collins' multi-million-word language databanks, it provides the user with an incomparably accurate, up-to-date picture of how real Spanish is used today.

While the specialised nature of some of the entries ensures that it will be the dictionary of choice for academics, university and higher level school students, and language professionals, there is much which any language learner will find accessible. The clear typography and uncluttered layout, for example, and the highlighted keyword features, provide the most user-friendly aid to translation possible. There is also help available for typical translation problems and detailed information about the Spanish-speaking world in the form of extended cultural entries.

Complex entries and common lexical structures have been given in-depth treatment with special layouts, and idioms are clearly shown.

The Language In Use section shows hundreds of contemporary examples of how everyday Spanish is used. It includes guidance on essay-writing and correspondence, and gives help in expressing yourself in a wide variety of situations, with categories such as "Likes, Dislikes and Preferences", "Comparisons" and "Obligation".

The combination of the Spanish dictionary and the Language In Use supplement provides such a complete tool for language learning that satisfaction is guaranteed!

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