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The vast number of words included makes this dictionary a tool suitable for the youngest learners who have to grapple with a foreign language, from elementary-school age to middle school.
All the most common English words are translated and explained in clear and simple but precise terms, with a wealth of examples and notes.
Combining methodological precision with a playful approach, this dictionary stimulates curiosity and interest in broadening one’s knowledge of English.
Color printing, proper use of graphic symbols, and the use of line drawings make reference to this volume especially easy and enjoyable.
In keeping with the needs of foreign-language teaching methods, which favor the direct method, this work has a first section, English-Italian, with a wealth of words, examples, and idioms, and a second section, Italian-English, that is simple and basic but thorough.
The result is a worthy tool that helps learn to write and speak English correctly ‘like a native,’ i.e. using expressions and idioms that a native speaker might choose.
- more than 16,500 entries
- variant forms in American English
- grammar and vocabulary notes
- notes on English-speaking culture and civilization
- 250 words illustrated to clarify meaning and word choice
- 22 color plates with an illustrated glossary of 500 common words and question-and-answer exercises about the topics illustrated (weather and seasons, the beach, the mountains, farm animals, city life. shopping, etc.)
- 79 dialogs and passages for conversation and reading
- appendix with phonetic transcription of all English headwords
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