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Summary: An excellent reference
Review: As a Russian translator in the U.S. military, I have used this edition as well as earlier ones in my work, and I have to say that this is an improvement upon the others, which were already very good. A question for the reviewer who wrote that the back cover contained spelling mistakes in Russian: Where are they? I know the spelling system of the language quite well, and reading the back cover several times, I could find neither spelling mistakes nor incorrect case endings. As for word choice in Russian, it could be that native speakers would have phrased some things differently (as a non-native speaker, it's hard for me to judge), but the Russian text is certainly grammatically correct and the meaning is clearly conveyed.
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Summary: EXCELLENT Reference !!!!
Review: I had used three other Russian/English dictionarys but this has it all. It even has some 4 letter words you might find offensive. My wife is Russian and our communication has improved because of this fantastic dictionary. The meanings of words have been well researched and are translated exactly. I would recommend this reference for anyone learning Russian or for the Russian needing an English word equivilant.
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Summary: Probably not the best English - Russian dictionary...
Review: It's a very good dictionary, many words, phrases; it is promoted as a reference for people studying Russian. But its English-to-Russian part is definitely not the best in the field, it's evident that it was written by English speaking people. The back cover not only suffers from wrong choice of words, but even contains severe spelling mistakes.
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Summary: Probably not the best English - Russian dictionary...
Review: It's a very good dictionary, many words, phrases; it is promoted as a reference for people studying Russian. But its English-to-Russian part is definitely not the best in the field, it's evident that it was written by English speaking people. The back cover not only suffers from wrong choice of words, but even contains severe spelling mistakes.
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Summary: Kind of weak, especially when compared to Penguins...
Review: Oh woes me! I lost my Penguin dictionary and had to shell out [price] for this sub-par and seriously inferior dictionary. Compared with Penguin...well there in no comparison: This one seriously lacks in idiomatic expressions, slang, synonyms and sentence examples for their words. I need to get another Pengiun dictionary fast!Why are good Russian materials so hard to find? If you're a Russian guru, make some money and alleviate this problem!!!
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Summary: Very poor dictionary
Review: This is a big thick heavy volume printed in nice large
font on fine white paper, and it is mostly useless.
I am a native Russian speaker and pretty good in English,
having studied it for good quarter a century. I was looking
for a decent dictionary to look up more difficult words,
and I was specifically looking for one volume two-way
Russian-English dictionary for ease of use.
This dictionary turned out to be a waste of money. It only
has the most primitive words both in Russian and English
sections, no slang (and I am talking standard slang, not
street speak), definitions are poor, very few synonyms.
It may be good for beginners but as a reference dictionary
I would not recommend it to anybody.
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