The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Russian Edition) English/Russian Edition

The only negative is that the contrast ink for the other language is quite pale, and difficult to see. It would also be great if there were an online pronunciation guide for each page of this book. What makes this book terrific is the organization by whereabouts of the vocabulary: at the dentist? then dental words. at the airport: then vocabulary for buying tickets, plane seats, luggage ramps, etc. This greatly simplifies finding the needed vocabulary, and the pictures make it easy to understand the meaning of the word when English has so many homonyms! This book is a MUST for any language learner !

Absolutely the best Picture Dictionary to teach or learn Russia/English vocabulary. I've been using it for several years with the different levels of students.

If only they could show a sample page - it would give all the lowdown a prospective purchaser would need. Most of the caveats I saw in the other reviews are true enough, but this is still the best basic ESL resource I've come across (both the monolingual and the English/Russian version). My only negative is that a few items are a bit dated (or maybe that's the book's British roots and it's an item common across the pond but not here). But the thematic approach works great and I'd give this a slight edge over the line of also worthy Bill Bliss illustrated dictionaries.

Sent this to my prospective bride in Ukraine. Was very helpful developing her English skills before come to the USA

I also used this with my adopted children from Russia (then 6, 9 & 11) and found it extremely useful. It was easy for them to locate a picture they wanted to name, and made communnication much simpler!

clear and pretty pictures

good dictionary, good seller.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary for Russian seems geared toward Russian students of English. It would be more useful for this if it included International Phonetic Alphabet beside the English words on the picture pages. Instead, non-IPA pronunciation guides are buried in an index. For the student of Russian, it's almost useless. Russian is fairly phonetic--if you know where the accent falls. Unfortunately, accent marks are completely absent, and the two dots of letter <yo> are never shown, confusing it with <ye>. (While standard written Russian omits these marks, pedagogical texts should include them.) A student who learned the word for "bill, receipt" from this book would mispronounce <schyot> as <schyet>, eliciting great confusion and then laughter from his Russian friends. Also, when the book gives a plural noun, you can't always predict the singular form. For other nouns irregular plural forms aren't given. Noun gender is never given and sometimes can't be predicted. The only way to make this book useful for correctly acquiring Russian vocabulary is to look up all 2400+ words, a daunting task!