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Oxford Russian Minidictionary | 
 enlarge | Creator: Della Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $8.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 144658
Media: Turtleback
Edition: 2
Pages: 768
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4.6 x 3.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0198614578
Dewey Decimal Number: 491.7321
EAN: 9780198614579
ASIN: 0198614578
Publication Date: June 22, 2006
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Product Description
This new edition of the Oxford Russian Minidictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential day-to-day vocabulary with over 40,000 words and phrases, and 60,000 translations.
The new phrasefinder feature provides an instant safety net when you travel, providing super fast access to all the words and expressions you need for everyday situations--shopping, traveling, asking for directions, or finding a place to stay. A brand-new menu-reader section has been added so you know exactly what you're getting to eat, and the new conversion charts for distance, weights and measures, and clothing and shoe sizes make traveling abroad easier than ever before. Also included is a guide to the characters of the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet.
All of these features are packed into a pocket-sized, durable format with a hard-wearing vinyl cover, making these dictionaries ideal for business people, travellers, and students. The Oxford Russian Minidictionary is your perfect mini-guide to understanding Russian.
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 A useful pocket dictionary, with good coverage of some matters, though I prefer the Random House for its dimensions November 2, 2008
Christopher Culver
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having lost my Random House pocket Russian dictionary, a steadfast companion for many years, and then soon after the Russian printing of the Collins Gem Russian Dictionary I bought to replace it, I've now started using the OXFORD RUSSIAN MINI DICTIONARY. The dictionary portion is adequate for my needs ("40,0000 words and phrases, 60,000 translations"), but my needs are simple and I'm mainly concerned with colloquial use of the language. There are, of course, bound to be topics that the dictionary doesn't cover for you, especially any sort of formal literary registers, but that's why it's important to invest in a large home dictionary instead of relying solely on a pocket mini dictionary. I am pleased by its coverage of irregular masculine noun plurals in -a and in its clear listing of both perfective and imperfective infinitives.
In addition the to English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary, this contains a number of supplementary materials. These include spelling rules and brief coverage of declension of Russian nouns and adjectives and conjugation. There is also a list of irregular English verbs, though this dictionary is not widely sold in the Russian Federation and I imagine only a small minority of people using it are Russians learning English. In the middle of the dictionary, between the English-Russian and Russian-English portions, there is a small listing with phrases useful in tourism. I'm not sure much of this is going to be useful, since if you speak Russian well enough to have brought a dictionary along, you probably have sufficient command of the grammar to express yourself, even if through some amount of circumlocution.
These supplementary materials contribute slightly to the downside I see with the dictionary, for while it is very lightweight, it is much thicker than it ought to be. It will fit only into larger pockets, and takes up an annoying large amount of space in a backpack if you are using it in travels in Russia. I'm really missing my Random House dictionary, which was a couple of centimetres taller than either the Oxford or the Collins Gem, but much slimmer. On the other hand, one should commend the publishing house for its typesetting, which wastes little space on the page, as opposed to the disastrous Oxford series of pocket grammars.
 Oxford Russian Minidictionary May 14, 2008
R. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With 100,000 entries and translations, a phrase finder section, an appendix with spelling rules, declension of adjectives and nouns and conjugation of verbs, this little dictionary is handy yet comprehensive. It is just what I wanted!
I love this Dictionary!! November 18, 2005
L. Ridlon (St Louis, MO USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have used many russian dictionaries in the past. I am hooked on this one. It has a substantial vocabulary listing - I can always find the word I am looking for. It is small so I can easily carry it everyday. And the cover is durable.
Thorough and Handy July 10, 2000
CP-S (MA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I used this dictionary for 2 years of highschool Russian and it was irreplacable. It is relatively up-to-date so you will find technical terms in it and the appendixes in the back are great. Most of the other people in my class liked it too. Its very small size (about the size of an index card) made it handy to carry around but sometimes the small type was slightly hard to read.
...irreplaceable July 25, 1999
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What is more important then learn the language? If you agree with that -buy the book! It's execellent!.....Keep it next to the computer! Have few of them....
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