HarperCollins French Concise Dictionary

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Summary: Incredibly useful
Review: For me this dictionary has it all. It has useful usage guides for most of the words and the appendix which is quite large really breaks down the whole grammar structure and such with real ease that helps to flesh out the ideas and thoughts I want to express effectively.

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Summary: pourquoi ne l'aimez-vous pas alors?
Review: I own this Dictionary, and it is my second french dic. after the Collins Gem pocket one. This dic. is complete enough to satisfy all the words I need to look up, was a great grammar section, tells usage and examples of important words and has cultural highlights. To refuke what the other reviews say, I've had mine for a year, I use it often, and her spine and pages are still well intact. Maybe I was lucky, but mine is used and no where close to falling apart. Ça me semble que vous avez un peu de mal change là, n'est-ce pas?

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Summary: Great Content, Bad Book
Review: This book is a great book. It has over 200,000 entries and translations, thousands of contemporary, political, and business terms, and it has a quick refrence grammar section. It includes hundreds of examples, and has extensive examples of grammatical constructions and idiomatic usage.

I highly recommend it, YET THERE IS A PROBLEM, THE BOOK ITSELF.

It is a good book content wise, wish I bought it 4 years ago for French I, yet I would not have it now. Having owned it for a while, it is falling apart...