The Mini Oxford Spanish Vocabulary Builder

The Spanish Vocabulary Builder is an excellent guide for students, helping them to build up their French vocabulary, as well as preparing them for written and oral examinations. * Over 3,000 words and phrases covering all curriculum topics, including home, animals, hobbies, food, travel, weather, work, media, currant affairs, environment * Special sections on adjectives and verbs * Activities, helpful tips, and cartoon strips in each section make learning fun * Striking examples, illustrations, and strategies to help students grasp and remember new words * Answers to all exercise are at the back making it suitable for self-study

The Mini Oxford Study Spanish Dictionary is the ideal portable dictionary to carry to Spanish classes and for homework use.This clearly designed and well laid out dictionary is easy to read and use, and contains the entire text of The Oxford Study Spanish Dictionary.DT Meets all National Curriculum and exam board requirementsDT Durable flexi coverDT Special introduction on how to use the dictionaryDT Includes a map of Spain and Europe for geographical informationDT Clear examples to show how words are used in contextDT Expressions and idioms highlightedDT Verb tables to help with grammar

The Oxford Mini School Spanish Dictionary comes in a handy mini format and is ideal for use in the classroom or at home, with excellent curriculum vocabulary coverage, verb tables with English translations, and cultural information and phrases on Spanish life that is especially useful for going on holiday.

This new edition has been expanded to include 800 new headwords with particular attention paid to new terminology for IT and Spanish culture and customs.* Updated for 2004 with over 800 new entries covering: euro (with value of euro compared to old currency); IT ( internet, internet cafe, double click, interactive compact disk, hard disk, floppy disk, @ the at sign in email addresses, website); ecology (endangered species, oil slick, wind farm) andSpanish culture and customs (telephoning, sport, food and modern life such as text messaging) even includes SARS.* New design to increase clarity of layout, 2 colour and with virtual alphabet tabs* Perfect for individual use as a quick-reference tool or extended classroom work* Geographical terminology expanded to include adjectives derived from Latin American and Caribbean terms* Colour headwords, phrases, verb table section and virtual alphabet tabs* Castillian Spanish* Clear examples show the words in contextNicholas Rollin is an experienced editor of bilingual dictionaries. Most recently he has been project manager for the Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Academic, 2003). He is also the chief editor of the Oxford School German Dictionary new edition 2004 and Oxford School French Dictionary new edition 2004.

With over 45,000 words and phrases, and 70,000 translations, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative Spanish minidictionary available today. Ideal for students, this up-to-date bilingual dictionary is especially designed to meet the needs of both English and Spanish speakers in the 1990s. In addition to wide-ranging and current coverage of the vocabulary of everyday life, the dictionary is packed with example sentences and idiomatic phrases showing words in use, and includes the core vocabulary of Latin American Spanish, common abbreviations, and irregular plurals and past tenses. Pronunciation is made simple with the standard international phonetic alphabet, which guides the user through even the most idiosyncratic words. Small enough for pocket, purse, or backpack, the Oxford Spanish Minidictionary is a must for anyone learning this important language at home or aboad.

An easy-to-use dictionary containing 90,000 up-to-date words, phrases, and definitions.