Hindi English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Bilingual Visual Dictionaries)

What an awesome dictionary! This book will truly help me on my journey to becoming fluent in Hindi! The photos make it so much easier to remember words.

A good reference book on the subject and good price.

This is a great visual dictionary. I have never seen anything quite like it with so much detail. There are more words in here in Hindi than I would ever care to know. Some words I don't even know in my own language. There is practically everything under the sun that you can think of from something as simple as boy to as technical as particular structures, bones, and systems of the body for instance. HOWEVER, the downfall to the dictionary and the reason I did not give it 5 stars is the lack of any cultural terms. Everything is very westernized as another reviewer has said. When you look under women's clothing its all westernized. There is no inclusion of the word for saaRii for instance that women traditonally wear. Also, another thing that kind of takes away from the feel of the book is the generic photographs. They are very colorful and detailed, however none of them include people from India. I think it would improve the book if they used cultural references and showed actual places/people in India for the visual aid. This would make it much more exciting for the learner. All and all though what a great book with SO MANY WORDS you can learn!!!

This book is small & easy to carry. The best dictionary for language I have ever seen. So glad I bought this!

Hindi-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary really exceeded my expectations. It's an excellent size for carrying around, every word has a picture, the pictures are great and there are tons of them. Organization is excellent. I only wish is that BVD would print Gujarati-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary.

Hindi, like Spanish, classify nouns as being either masculine or feminine. Such a distinction is important when pairing the noun with the appropriate adjective. The Spanish version of the DK dictionary includes the "m"/"f" distinction, but the Hindi version does not. So the student has to find ANOTHER dictionary to find out if the noun is masculine or feminine. Not very helpful. If you are looking to learn helpful phrases, you'll be better served looking elsewhere. There are only 2 pages of phrases-- in the back of the book.

Imagine being a first grader, I experience the same kind of feelings. Not a bad one, no. Just the amusement at the quality of the pictures provided and accompanying words.

So, I already owned the ebook of this book but I wanted a physical so I could push myself to actually use it more often as I SLOWLY learn Hindi. I would say I totally regret this but and prefer the ebook. The physical copy is the size of my palm. Which may be convenient for me it’s just not my personal preference. The words are so tiny and I already wear reading glasses. Nonetheless nothing is wrong with actually dictionary but I’m shocked I paid $17 for a pocket size dictionary.

Everything is perfect except the book size, its the same size as 7-inch tablet screen, which may be slightly small

The book is clear to understand with good illustrations and usefull words of day to day usage. pronouncing with english letters too are usefull specialy if you are not familiar with the letters of alphabet.

Je viens de me mettre à l'hindi, et mon premier livre est un ouvrage Assimil qui apprend à construire des phrases, explique la grammaire, etc. J'avais donc besoin en plus d'un ouvrage de pur vocabulaire. Et bien, je suis tombée sur une perle avec ce dictionnaire visuel!! Le vocabulaire est organisé en thèmes (les gens, l'apparence, la santé, les services, le travail, les loisirs, le sport, la nourriture, les sorties, etc), et chaque grand thème se découpe plus précisément. Par exemple dans le thème "les gens", on a le corps humain, les muscles, la famille, les relations, etc... Cet ouvrage pourrait presque être qualifié d'exhaustif tant il est complet. Comme il s'agit d'un dico visuel, chaque mot est illustré par une photo (et pas un dessin bidon comme c'est parfois le cas), ce qui rend l'apprentissage de vocabulaire plus aisé, plus ludique, et moins rébarbatif. C'est un dictionnaire hindi-anglais, ce qui m'arrange car cela me fait en même temps réviser un peu de vocabulaire anglais (pas de panique si vous ne parlez pas trop cette langue: les photos illustratives sont souvent très explicites). Chaque mot est inscrit en anglais, puis en dessous en hindi et caractères latins (pour savoir le prononcer même si vous ne connaissez pas l'alphabet hindi), et encore en dessous en caractère devanagari. Une notice explicative vous informe sur la prononciation à adopter (par exemple le M avec un point en dessous indique une prononciation nasale). Cependant ce point est le moins performant, car j'ai trouvé l'explication de la prononciation beaucoup plus claire et réussie dans le livre Assimil. Cela n'altère néanmoins pas l'ingéniosité de ce dictionnaire!! De toute façon, il est nécessaire d'écouter l'hindi pour bien comprendre la prononciation. Je conseille sur ce point le site ispeakhindi.com, qui propose à l'écoute des dizaines de podcasts, gratuits et sans inscription nécessaire, où des natifs indiquent comment prononcer tel ou tel mot (selon la leçon correspondant au podcast).

Very good way of helping learn a language for someone who is completely new. Well laid in sections

きれいな写真、見ているだけで楽しい！