Customer Reviews
fast delivery & good book look new 
2008-07-01
bought two to avoid shipping. look new and fast shipping. recommend to everyone.
Oxford Picture Dictionary - English-Vietnamese 
2008-06-09
These books were purchased to be used in a church ESL language center. We have used them before. They are very useful working with ESL students. Not only have we used them with this language, but with other languages, too, according to the students being helped.
Stephen, Charlotte, NC - Excellent Book 2008-01-18
The authors tried hard to present the materials in an easy to understand format. This book is all about Picture-word association for different settings (at the work place, at home,...etc). It is a "must have" for all. You'll enjoy learning new words and use them in converations, intelligently. I suggest also to get the Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary: Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese.
Awesome dictionary 2007-10-05
This is awesome for those who are rusty in Viet. It is not good for someone who needs to understand grammar, but is excellent for those who need to build vocabulary. I am using it to brush up on my Viet. It looks like this is a series so they should have it in other languages. It is definitely worth the twelve dollars and change. I bought this along with The Rough Guide to Vietnamese Dictionary Phrasebook 3 (Rough Guide Phrasebooks). Get it now!
The Best Available 2007-06-08
In addition to vocab expansion for the L2 learner in an academic
setting the beauty of this book is how useful it is in everyday
situations. The utility of the "Oxford Picture Dictionary" is that
you can use it on your own. Want to go to a market in a foreign
country and buy a needle, thread, button, tack, or band saw? You'll
find it here. It's organized for the vocab to be found quickly.
Each Page is theme/topic based.
The vocabulary is accurate, high-frequency, and focused. This is
important especially when dealing with multiple definitions that
obstruct the usefulness of most other text dictionaries. In addition
to the targeted high-frequency, the artistry of the pictures is done
very well. Phrasal verbs and collocations are included when
necessary, with the target words highlighted. Additional info. is at
the bottom of each page.
Reading the preface and forward (instruction manual) of this book is
also very helpful for instructors as well as learners.
It's true this series is beneficial more to English learners if the
student of this book is going from English to another language and
cannot read the L2 language alphabet (Mandarin, Japanese, Russian,
Thai, Korean, etc).
This Oxford Picture Dictionary is great for vocab expansion for lower
level students learning or acquiring language and/or for those only
needing it for everyday purposes.
Useful Book for Teaching English. 2007-01-28
A comprehensive, flexible, and up-to-date vocabulary reference and teaching tool for English language learning. The Oxford Picture Dictionary and its components create a highly teachable programme that can be used as a complete, four-skills beginning course, or as a language development supplement and practical reference. h4span style="font-size: smaller; color: #ff0000"NEW /span Grammar Activity Book/h4
Excellant for beginners 2007-01-22
I purchased this book to assist a Vietnamese immigrant that I work with. She knows very little English, but attempts to communicate ideas and concepts with her co-workers. This can be very frustrating for her because we speak English, and have little motivation to learn Vietnamese. So, she's stuck having to learn the language from people that are not teachers, speak too fast, frequently use common slang terms, and have an attitude that "She'll eventually pick it up". I feel sympathy for her, so I bought it for her.
This book contains a few thousand words and pictures, all in the context that they're seen and used. For example, there is a two page spread of an intersection of roads. In that picture, there are pictures of various businesses such as laundromats, bakeries, beauty salon, and such. Car, motorcycle, truck, bus, etc. Parking meters, traffic lights, crosswalks, road, curb, corner, mailbox, fire hydrant, parking space, and many other things you'd find at an intersection of streets in a city. Many of these picture spreads also have verbs identified with a picture. For example, there is a picture of a car backing into a parking spot and noted "park the car", a bicyclist is noted with "ride a bicycle", "wait for the light", "walk across the street", etc.
What makes it perfect is that beneath the English word is the Vietnamese word so the student can identify the nouns and verbs more clearly and what action the picture is conveying, such as "learn to drive", "plant a tree", "hang up your clothes", "wash your hair", etc. In certain instances, the verbs are presented in the order they'd be performed, such as: Wake up, take a shower, eat breakfast, go to work, leave work, go shopping, go home, eat dinner, go to bed. This helps with associating the nouns and verbs with the situations. Pick up the receiver, listen for the dial tone, put coins in the telephone, dial the telephone number, have a conversation, hang up the receiver. That sort of thing. All with clearly identified pictures.
The amount of material is pretty extensive, covering 3,700 words. These words are grouped into 12 broad categories: Everyday Language, People, Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Community, Transportation, Areas of Study, Plants and Animals, Work, and Recreation.
Each category is then broken down into several picture spreads with all the pictures and activities defined. For example, the section on community is broken down into these picture spreads: City streets, an intersection, a mall, a childcare center, U.S. Mail, a bank, a library, the legal system, crime, public safety, emergencies and natural disasters. All things and related concepts are identified in English and Vietnamese. Very nice.
Some spreads resemble comic book panes. Job Search is an example showing a young man looking for a job, looking for a Help Wanted sign, Looking in the newspaper, Calling for information, asking about the hours, filling out an application, going for an interview, and eventually getting hired. All with relevant and understandable pictures.
For a beginner who knows little English, this gets them started so they can identify time, days, past, present, future, emotions, and other concepts they'll encounter every day. They will still need a native speaker, or someone who is fluent in English, who can assist with correct pronunciations.
After several months to a year (depending on the students circumstances) of studying this book, they will need to move onto an English *grammar* book so they can construct their sentences correctly, instead of the typical, "Me go home", "You no work tomorrow?", or "I are use blue cleaner, yes?" and that sort of thing. There is some coverage of verb forms, but it's virtually useless without more extensive coverage (and definitely needs a teacher).
The back of the book contains an index, in Vietnamese, so the student can look up Vietnamese words and flip to the page were the English word, picture, and spelling is. There is also a simple English dictionary with pronunciation key, but will be of little help to a Vietnamese speaker since the English pronunciation key will be as clear as Arabic or Hebrew. How can they possibly understand the difference between "a" as in "Bake" or "a" as in "Father" unless they actually speak the language? Therefore, this pronunciation key isn't going to be very useful until they are very familiar with a few hundred words or more, along with their correct pronunciation. Then they may associate how to pronounce "a" (with the little straight line above it) with "cake".
Overall, this book, along with a native speaker, is an outstanding start for a new Vietnamese student of English. I highly recommend this book.
- Alleyrat
Wow 2005-07-05
Excellent resource book both to refresh my own limited knowledge of Vietnamese and to find the right English/Vietnamese equivalent for my Vietnamese students.
oxford dictionary 2000-06-12
This book was exactly what I had been looking for! It was easy to comprehend and the pictures are well done. The pictures are also a great learning tool. If you are looking for a great English/Vietnamese dictionary take advantage of the time I spent researching this product and buy it. You won't be sorry!
