This dictionary was my companion for 6 months travelling through Central America. I used the dictionary learning Spanish in Honduras and Guatemala and generally found the dictionary to contain all the words I was looking for. My only gripe with the dictionary was that some translations to Spanish in the English section, weren't in the Spanish section and vice versa. This meant that cross referencing was impossible on occasion. But on the whole it's a forgivable weakness considering its size. The fact that it accommodated both Latin American and Spanish Spanish was very good. The mid-section containing travel phrases and numbers also came in very handy at the beginning of my trip, before I spoke a single word of Spanish,.