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Completely updated and attractively designed, this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary contains over 175,000 words and phrases, and 270,000 translations. The Concise boasts a clear layout featuring a two-color text design and printed thumb tabs for quick reference. Compiled by leading language experts, this new edition offers extensive coverage of the general, scientific, literary, and technical vocabulary of contemporary French and English, including numerous new words. In addition to providing a wealth of information on both languages, the Dictionary also offers a comprehensive correspondence guide with sample letters and emails, plus fun and informative cultural notes on life and living in the French-speaking world. This new edition also features information French spelling and new sections on regional French, false friends (similar words that mean very different things), and Franglais as well as an entirely new internet section. It is the perfect choice for anyone who needs an up-to-date and reliable intermediate dictionary of French and English. Discover more on oxforddictionaries.com, Oxford's hub for dictionaries and language reference.

The Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary represents a totally new approach to language learning. It is designed exclusively to meet the specific needs of the native English speaking student, offering the clearest and most comprehensive guidance possible in the correct use of the French language. With over 80,000 words and phrases, over 110,000 translations, and thousands of sentences taken from real speech and written sources, this thorough reference includes special detailed treatment of important vocabulary items and complex grammatical areas, and provides unique boxed usage notes within the text dealing with key areas, such as numbers, age, time, countries, and more. The English-French side of the Dictionary guides the reader to the correct translation and grammatical construction of the foreign language, while the French-English side is designed to ensure that students select the right translation for a particular context. Based on the highly-acclaimed Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary, which made groundbreaking use of electronic text collections of English and French, the Pocket provides users with authentic examples of the way French is written and spoken today.

Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary , described by the Independent as `revolutionary', this dictionary provides students at intermediate level with an authoritative guide to French language and culture. The result of ground-breaking developments in bilingualdictionary-making, it is compiled entirely from the evidence of vast electronic databanks of every type of written and spoken French and English.Its features * Detailed in-text boxes cover topics such as numbers, nationalities, measurements, games and sports, and forms of address. These boxes review and summarize the function and usage of the vocabulary and word patterns of those essential language areas.* An entirely new thematic wordfinder covers all the essential vocabulary in key topics and is specially designed as a reference section for writing* A new guide to email and the Internet gives a unique gateway to French culture

Acclaimed by language professionals the world over, The Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary leads the way in modern bilingual lexicography. The first ever French dictionary to be entirely compiled based on the statistical evidence of vast electronic databanks of real language, both written and spoken, it is the most comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date dictionary of French and English available today. The previous edition was described by the Independent as 'revolutionary'. This major new edition provides new up-to-date vocabulary, a new open design, in-text cultural notes on many aspects of the French-speaking world, from political and educational systems, to festivals and national newspapers, as well as a revised correspondence section that provides many model letters, extensive information on business correspondence via email and the internet. It is the most up-to-date and complete French dictionary of its size - a must for any serious student of the French language.

[SERIES ] This informative, colorful, and fun-to-use series of guides is perfect for anyone who wants to learn a second language quickly and easily. Each volume employs the amusing and always true-to-life cartoon strips of Claire Bretécher--an artist renowned in Europe for her witty andcontroversial cartoons--to not simply explain but illustrate the words and wording of a given foreign language in its common, everyday use.While there are other cartoon dictionaries on the market, most of them provide only single cartoons. This attractive series, on the other hand, provides whole strips which tell a story and effectively bring context and other memorable features to one's learning. And only this series offerscartoons done in full color, and written by a popular cartoonist. These vocabulary-builders are the perfect starting place for people who want to begin, or else strengthen, their acquisition of French, German, or Spanish.