Japanese Essential Dictionary: Bestselling bilingual dictionaries (Collins Essential Dictionaries)

Bought this to go with other materials for my wife, who is learning Japanese at home. She finds it very good and useful. Good service from this seller.

Brilliant , exactly as advertised and what I needed.I will order again with this seller .

Does the job but the text is small, especially when working with different alphabets!

Great, has lots of helpful sections as well.

Lovely written grammar sections. Had a few "oh now I get it" moments with it

Great bilingual dictionary. Exactly what my son needed for his studies

Very helpful when studying Japanese. Easy to use.

Excellent

The Japanese-English side is 223 pages long. At around 40 entries per page, this dictionary has around 9000 entries at most, which should be fine for basic queries. Words are ordered alphabetically according to their romanization, so this side of the dictionary could only ever be useful if you already know the pronunciation of a Japanese word. This could happen if you encounter a word while hearing Japanese speech, or if you are a Japanese speaker looking for an equivalent in English. If you need to read Japanese, this dictionary won't be as helpful, unless the word you encounter is written in kana, if someone can provide the pronunciation, or if you know kanji well enough that you can guess the pronunciation (though at that point you probably wouldn't be using this dictionary).The English-Japanese side is 206 pages long. At around 40 entries per page, this dictionary has around 8000 entries at most, which, again, should be fine for basic queries. Entries and example phrases seem to be focused on practical needs. Words such as bank, bed, booking, breakfast, bus, card, child, disabled, dish, flight, hospital, hotel, insurance, passport, phone, photo, repair, room, ticket and wheelchair have lots of examples and serve as a phrasebook of sorts.I can see this dictionary as a useful companion when travelling in Japan.However, if you want to read newspapers or literature in Japanese, this is definitely not the one, because of its limited vocabulary and lack of a mechanism to lookup kanji.Yet, because of its very limitations, I could see this dictionary being useful as a vocabulary list of sorts, especially in the initial stages of learning either language.

I received the dictionary, and it was in good condition.