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 Non Fiction September 3, 2007
Blue Tyson
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Berlitz Danish-English Pocket Dictionary by the Berlitz Publishing Company is a handy little reference guide when you need to look up a word in Danish and find its English equivalent, and it is not obvious at a glance on the internet. Occasionally useful for checking out a book title on Librarythign too, for combining.
Anyway, not too bad.
 Best thing to have in your pocket in Copenhagen (besides a condom) January 13, 2007
C. Petersen
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Hey, I am out and proud AND this dictionary got me through the day quite well!
It helped me land a Job and a possible husband!!!!
 quite good for beginners February 28, 2006
Thomas Martin
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is quite good for beginners, but not so good for scholars. It is good that it at least indicates pronunciation, in contrast to some Danish dictionaries, but the indication of pronunciation of Danish words is not so good as for English words, for example it does not indicate presence of the glottal stop. The dictionary claims to indicate only irregular plurals, which seems to mean change of vowel or doubling of consonants, but some Danish nouns have plurals in -e, others in -er, and this dictionary does not show which plural is used, whether -e or -er.
The grammar section is too brief, it does not indicate for example how regular verbs are conjugated. But it has a good table of irregular verbs.
IPA (Not) For Dummies December 12, 2004
Christopher Schroen (Pittsburgh, PA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
As other reviewers have pointed out, this little book doesn't have much competition. This is a reasonably useful little dictionary, and is worth its retail price.
Complaint: The English-Danish section gives the reader a pronunciation guide using the IPA. Thus, a Danish speaker has a reasonable idea of exactly how to pronounce the English words. The Danish-English section gives the reader what purports to be a "phonetic transcription," but instead of using the clear and unambiguous IPA, the editors have chosen to saddle the English speaker with a silly, dumbed-down homebrew of an approximate guide to pronunciation. This is NOT a "phonetic transcription," this is a rough guide. Danish orthography, like English orthography, can be tricky and misleading sometimes. Apparently, the editors feel that the big, scary IPA is too much for us anglophones to wrap our pretty little heads around, and that we'll be happy with only a vague idea how to pronounce those dreadful Danish words. "Overraskelse" (surprise)? Just say "o(oo)-o-rahss-gerl-ser." I suppose that's close enough to make me understood, but a "phonetic transcription?" Nope.
Still, this dictionary is better than no dictionary at all, and serves its purpose well enough. The fact that the IPA is OK for Danes but not for anglophones is insulting and annoying, but (oh, well) this is a Berlitz product, after all.
cute little dictionary, but only for beginners April 6, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Good things about this dictionary: Pocket-sized, great for travel. Quick lookup, because just gives you the basic definitions you would need as a BEGINNER.Bad things: Couldn't find a few words I needed (such as "boyfriend" and more slang-ish types of words). Only gives one or two possible translations for words that would have at least 10 definitions in an English dictionary. (Example: for the word "miss" they give you only two translations, for using with e.g. "Miss Andersen" and "I miss you," but not for "I missed the bus" etc.) Get this dictionary only if you're a complete beginner, in which case it'll be very handy.
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