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Swahili-English, English-Swahili Practical Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary) | 
| Author: Nicholas Awde
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $16.47
You Save: $8.48 (34%)
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 38528
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 596
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0781804809
Dewey Decimal Number: 496.392321
EAN: 9780781804806
Publication Date: December 2000
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Product Description
Containing over 35,000 entries, this comprehensive dictionary is designed to aid speakers of English and Swahili alike in navigating the growing global vocabulary of business, travel, tourism, politics, telecommunications, computers, and the internet. It features up-to-date entries in handy reference form, and includes useful appendices listing English irregular verbs and their translations, Swahili noun classes, and useful phrases and vocabulary.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Practical indeed, and very handy! December 11, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This Swahili-English / English-Swahili pocket dictionary is very handy. Its 596 pages cover over 35,000 entries in both languages. The English words have the phonetic transcriptions, whereas the Swahili nouns have their plurals shown in brackets.
As it is written in the foreword, this practical dictionary proves to be "an aid in navigating the growing global vocabulary of politics, telecommunications, computers, the Internet, tourism, business and travel."
At the end of the book there are some useful pages on English irregular verbs (infinitive Swahili verbs are given in brackets), Swahili noun classes, useful phrases and vocabulary, cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, weighs and measures, time, days of the week, months, star signs.
 Not so very good June 7, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yes, this dictionary has lots of words (as another reviewer states), but that doesn't make it great. It does not tell you the most important thing about Swahili nouns - what class they are in. This means that for the learner, the dictionary is pretty useless if you're trying to construct a decent sentence!
Unfortunately it's pretty much the only big dictionary available so you probably have to buy it, but don't expect too much from it.
A must-have for the traveling physician or medical student May 24, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This small dictionary and phrase book fits easily into your lab coat pocket and will prove to be infinately helpful for physicians and students traveling among Swahili speaking populations. There is a small but comprehensive medical section in the back that outlines body parts and useful questions like, "are you having diarrhea".
Great dictionary! January 23, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the best dictionary for swahili I've seen. It's readily available and has english to swahili, swahili to english. I've made the mistake in the past to buy dictionaries that only had swahili to english or vice versa. It's a good buy. It has many words. Unless you go to East Africa or some hidden away used bookstore, this is the best dictionary for a beginner to buy.
Lots of words, somewhat less actual help July 7, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the biggest English-Swahili/Swahili-English dictionary I've seen, but it doesn't offer much beyond the words. I have had some success using it in conjunction with the Pimsleur audio course, which I think is really good, but on it's own I don't believe this item would be much help. I'd love to see some usage notes or idiomatic translations.
If all you need are the words themselves, this is the dictionary for you. On the other hand, if you want to learn to use the words conversationally, this is at best one tool you'll want in your toolkit.
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