Review: The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus by Marie Noëlle Lamy

Posted by on May 31, 2017 in Reference | 0 comments

Title: The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus Author: Marie-Noklle Lamy, Richard Towell, Genre: Foreign Language Study Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 1998 Pages: 326 For English-speaking learners of the French language of the intermediate or advanced level, Marie Noëlle Lamy's The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus is an excellent handbook. This bilingual thesaurus is arranged thematically with two alphabetical indexes:...

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Review: Larousse Concise French-English Dictionary

Posted by on Aug 4, 2015 in Book Review, Reference | 0 comments

Title: Anglais Dictionnaire/French Dictionary: Francais-Anglais, Anglais-Francais/French-English, English-French Author: Larousse Genre: Foreign Language Study Publisher: Larousse Editions Release Date: 2011 Pages: 1440 Thus, in this Concise French-English Dictionary Larousse has stood up to its tradition of providing the learners and readers of both French and English with a delightfully convenient practical tool. Larousse’s pocket-sized...

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Larousse’s French-English English-French Dictionary – a review

Posted by on Jul 21, 2015 in Book Review, Reference | 0 comments

Title: Larousse French English Dictionary Author: Larousse Genre: Education Publisher: Pocket Books Release Date: June 1, 1996 Pages: 720 FRENCH-ENGLISH ENGLISH-FRENCH Entirely revised and updated, this is the most affordable and complete French-English English-French dictionary of its kind. Now easier to read and access, with more than 50,000 definitions, it is designed expressly for the widest possible variety of interests and professions --...

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Review: Everyman’s Dictionary [English-Bengali]

Posted by on Nov 16, 2014 in Book Review, Reference | 0 comments

Title: Everyman's Dictionary (English-Bengali) Author: Chief Editor: Gouri Prasad Ghosh Genre: Reference Publisher: Ramkrishna Pustakalaya Pages: 1960 In the opinion of this reviewer, Everyman's Dictionary is the best English to Bengali dictionary available now. This reviewer is a professional translator and is quite a veteran in facing situations during a translation activity when target-language equivalents are lacking or where the...

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Review: Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner

Posted by on Oct 13, 2014 in Book Review, Reference | 0 comments

Title: Garner's Modern American Usage Author: Bryan Garner Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: August 27, 2009 Pages: 942 For anyone dealing with written English in any form or manner, Garner's Modern American Usage should be an indispensable component of his desk. But for its examples, culled largely from American journalistic and literary corpus, this book may be considered as a usage...

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