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Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary (Italian Edition) | 
 enlarge | Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
Buy New: $44.09
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 269102
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 2800
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.3 x 3.1
ISBN: 0199297754
Dewey Decimal Number: 453.21
EAN: 9780199297757
ASIN: 0199297754
Publication Date: January 8, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
The second edition of the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary is a major new edition, offering the most complete and up-to-date coverage of Italian available. With hundreds of new words in each language, it covers all the latest terms such as aid worker, climate change, and life coach. The 7,000 most frequent words in Italian are highlighted to help you learn essential vocabulary.
Also new to this edition are cultural notes, providing lively and interesting information on life in Italy, and a guide to correspondence, which includes sample letters, emails, resumes, and help with text messaging. There are notes throughout the A-Z text to warn of politically sensitive vocabulary, alert you to key differences between Italian and English, and to show how words such as with and before are used in different contexts.
This edition retains such popular features as quick-reference verb tables, and lists of vocabulary on topics such as seasons, rivers, sports, and more. It is an essential reference tool for all serious students of Italian at the college level and beyond, and for those who need an authoritative and comprehensive guide to Italian.
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A great and practical resource June 13, 2008
Aunt Bellie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like this dictionary so much that when I spilled coffee on my old copy I kept using it until the front cover came off. Then, I found it here on Amazon for this amazing price (it was $75 at a mall bookstore) and I finally replaced it. The definitions provide clear guidelines on usage, to help clarify precisely which definition you're looking for and it alerts you to whether the term is appropriate for British or American English. The Guide to Effective Communication at the end is priceless - I used it to decide what to record on my answering machine in Italy!
Good value in an Italian-English dictionary April 26, 2008
J Milton (The Hill Country, NY)
Clear, large type. Well bound: this Italian-English dictionary should well serve beginning and intermediate students (either Italians or Anglophones). An excellent value in terms of cost/quality. Exploded views of important verbs appear alphabetically in the main text, both English and Italian, as well as forms with prepositional, etc., attachments. "Lexical notes" appear between the Italian and English sections, and in the back; these notes offer paradigms for irregular verbs and, as well, provide an invaluable section devoted to examples of useful letters in English and Italian (for example, "seeking employment..."). There is even a section illustrating "Italian advertisements." Very helpful even for students of medieval and renaissance Italian literature (but not vice versa).
 Good Italian-English Dictionary March 26, 2008
Krista Lee
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Maria Garcia Bonini "Marcelarte"'s review is correct in saying the paper cover on this dictionary is misleading. Those seeking an Italian-English dictionary, might not realize this is exactly that. Those buying this as an Italian dictionary (in spite of the cover actually being in English) will not be getting what they want. The paper cover really should be changed.
Having said that, I really like this dictionary. I like that the beginning pages help you with Italian pronunciation and how the dictionary itself works. What I really appreciate is that most of the Italian words come with lots of context sentences so you can make sure you're using the words in the correct sense. It also seems like this dictionary would be good for Italian folks looking for the English words.
Warning: I guess in order to keep the size of this information-packed dictionary to a minimum, the print is really small, so some people (like me!) might need to put on their reading glasses during use.
a new standard in bilingual dictionaries November 29, 2007
David A. Rottenberg (Minneapolis, MN USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the most complete and up-to-date Italian-English dictionary I've ever used, and it represents a major upgrade from the first edition. The inclusion of a large number of sample letters in both English and Italian is a great help to those who must communicate in writing in either language, and the inclusion of computer-related and military jargon as well as innumerable colloquial expressions is extremely helpful.
Excellent Dictionary November 3, 2007
Wendell K. Warman (Claremore Ok. U.S.A)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Oxford Italian Dictionary is more than we expected. Very practical in example and useful for translators. I wish I had gotten ahold of it years ago.
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