Barron's German-English Dictionary: Worterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) Review

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Barron's German-English Dictionary: Worterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) ReviewI have studied French (can read and write in a fairly literate fashion), Spanish (functionally fluent) and Italian (still more or less a beginner) before taking on German. Of the four, German seems the most complex structurally and the most alien in relation to English.
Due to my having a desire to master a language once I start, I have used a lot of materials to learn these various languages and a good dictionary has always been critically important to me (I seem to end up owning several for each language, adding as I found new features that were missing in a prior dictionary).
I have several German-English dictionaries which I have used in studying, two are more comprehensive in number of words defined, examples and definitions (specifically a Duden-Oxford and Harper Collins). However, this Barron's dictionary is the most useful of the group for me as a new student.
The thing I like about in comparison to other dictionaries are that it includes a number of features that are not common to all German-English dictionaries.
For the most important verbs, it has the 3rd person singular, 3rd person simple past and the past participle. As I am learning, with those three pieces of data, you can go a long way to dealing with conjugating German verbs.
Type is larger and more legible than the other German dictionaries I own. That is a big deal for aging eyes.
In general, the definitions are very good and only someone who is virtually German-proficient or studying at the third or fourth year of a German major would probably ever need the more complete definition set that can be found in a much more bulky and expensive dictionary. I have run across German words in my reading that aren't in this dictionary but, not surprisingly given the way German strings words together to form new compound words, often aren't in the larger dictionaries either.
The Appendices add a wealth of information on articles (the a, an, and the of German); declension of nouns; declension of adjectives; tabular examples of verb conjugations; information tables for pronouns (personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, relative, interrogative); lists of prepositions controlling accusative and dative cases; list of irregular verbs with important forms for each verb; tables of both German prefixes and suffixes; and more. The Appendices include a lot of information that is very useful and generally must be found in a German grammar.
My satisfaction with the dictionary is partly because now that I am further into German study, I see what tools I need in a dictionary and they are in this volume.
At the same time I bought this volume I purchased the Barron's Spanish-English Dictionary -- one copy for me and one for each of my grandchildren for their use in Spanish class because of a similar group of Appendices (although Spanish thankfully doesn't have declensions and cases).
The Appendices alone are in my judgement worth the price of the volume -- a dictionary is essentially thrown in for free. Or the reverse is true -- either way, it is a bargain.
I have to admit that I don't see myself ever mastering German, it will have to be a work of years. But this dictionary is a good tool for undertakling that enterprise.Barron's German-English Dictionary: Worterbuch Deutsch-Englisch (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) Overview

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