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This completely modern and up-to-date dictionary is in a concise and easy-to-use format. Every entry offers a phonetic pronunciation guide, making the dictionary useful for English speaking travellers, businesspeople, and students, as well as for native Ukrainian speakers learning English.
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Leonid Hrabovsky
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just received this dictionary and have not used it much yet. It is a softback with translations of individual words, no phrases and no grammar section. So very basic, but will be useful enough as a supplement to the Ukrainian Lonely Planet phrasebook which does have a grammar section and includes a fair bit of background/cultural information. I would highly recommend the Lonely Planet Ukrainian phrasebook.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought the dictionary for a two week working trip to Ukraine. I thought that having a dictionary would help me even a little with everyday life. I dont exactly know where the problem was but this dictionary was completely useless to me. It seems to lack the most basic words you would need. For example, it does not contain word "toilet"! I also tried to use it to decypher what cookies I bought were made of, whether the water I planned to buy had gas or not, and what the restaurant menu contained. Practically no words on these prints could not be found from this dictionary! Either this dictionary is very lacking in words, or the words in Ukrainian language are twisted always somehow to unrecognizeable form, or all the packages in Ukraine are in Russian. Either case I did not have any use of this book.
If you are planning a trip to Ukraine, forget this and get the Lonely Planet phrase book instead. That was very useful (and even cheaper)!
If you are planning a trip to Ukraine, forget this and get the Lonely Planet phrase book instead. That was very useful (and even cheaper)!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Not useless!...entirely....
2 July 2006
Format:Paperback
As a source of many words, this is an okay book.
My issues?
The book provides tranlations of words, without context for their use, thereby requiring you to lookup the translated word. Many translation dictionaries make such mistakes, but what makes this so difficult with this book is that many of the words provided in one language, are NOT in the other language! Thereby effectivly making you GUESS as which word to use for any given situation.
My issues?
The book provides tranlations of words, without context for their use, thereby requiring you to lookup the translated word. Many translation dictionaries make such mistakes, but what makes this so difficult with this book is that many of the words provided in one language, are NOT in the other language! Thereby effectivly making you GUESS as which word to use for any given situation.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not a good dictionary
29 May 2008
Format:Paperback
I need to buy something for my husband who does not speak a word of Ukrainian. Looked at the firt page of this book and it was enough for me to know it's not good. The words are not the words regular Ukrainians speak with actually IN Ukraine. Those are the words that 2nd and 3rd generation Ukrainian immigrants from US and Canada use, and this author living in New York tries to pass them as authentic Ukrainian. Sure, you will be understood if you visit the country, but you will sound funny using those words.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Many errors, I don't not recommend it.
2 Mar 2009
Format:Paperback
I have several Ukrainian friends and they tell me that there are many errors in the book.
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