Larousse Advanced French-English/English-French Dictionary,   ISBN:9782035421326

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Great French dictionary. Includes grammar and lots of idioms and French culture snips. A must for any serious student of French. All these years using a pocket dictionary was a waste. I should have had this thing and I would have understood a lot more of the French literature I was trying to read. So far, I have found every word I have attempted to look up. The only words you won't find are proper nouns, or probably some Parisian slang won't be in there either.

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This has been a very useful tool in my french class. It is very detailed and easy to use. Great value for the money.

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Larousse Advanced French-English/English-French Dictionary (Hardcover)

For a long time I've been disappointed with my concise French/English dictionary! There weren't enough definitions to satisfy my curiosity! So, after some comparisons I decided on this version over the Oxford Hachette, as I already own that on the CD-ROM version. Which I find exceptionally helpful with pronunciations! I'd be lost without it!

I choose the Larousse because it was about $5 less, but still advertised at 250k references and 400k translations and is no doubt more dictionary than I'll ever need! I read that it was 1221 pages but in fact that is just the Anglais side and the Francais side is 1112 pages! In my math that totals 2333 pages no matter how many times I add the figures!

Also there are French/English verb pages, number pages, and a very chic cultural supplemental in the middle of the book with maps, history, animal names, housing names and so much more! This book measures about 10" L x 7" W x & 3" thick! I did not weight it if you were thinking that next! Ha.

The pages are a bit on the thin side but not cheap looking and the hardcover appears that it could be beefier for a book of this massive size. It definitely needs a place on your desktop for easy access, although I won't think twice about hauling it from room to room as the need necessitates!

Very happy camper with this purchase! Price and quality! Bon Chance!

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This dictionary is too huge to be lugged around for use outside the office or home, but it's a good reference, especially for translation of older texts. It doesn't have enough of the more common present-day idioms; for that, I use wordreference.com. Still, it has enough multiple entries for words that you can usually find some of the more obscure meanings that you need.

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This dictionary is even better than I expected from the information provided on Amazon.com. I've known some French since I was a kid, and would rate my ability as intermediate, limited mainly by timidity. I was recently involved in a business situation that required extensive correspondence involving commercial, real estate, and banking terms, as well as internet communication.

After relying on a 75-year-old Cassell's for a while, I decided that I needed something more up-to-date. I wanted access to modern terminology and idioms, so that I wouldn't sound like a Victorian textbook. All the reviews of this book were so favorable that I looked no further.

In sum, I can find just about every expression I need--the context notes are extremely helpful--and the modern-day terminology is very complete. It's great to be able to look up, for example, "ISP" (literally, "electronic garden gate") or "spam" (literally, "little rotten things") and know that I'm using the right verbiage.

Yeah, it's way too big to take on a trip. But for anything else, it's tops.