Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries)

This book is fantastic for learning Spanish vocabulary quickly, and effectively. The human brain is very image oriented and this dictionary will imprint objects and their spanish names into your memory quickly. When you learned English, or whatever your first language was, your parents would point to objects and say their name. The images in this book are absolutely beautiful and entertaining. I was surprised at the detail this book goes into. A lot of it is way more detailed then you will most likely ever need. (i.e. the name of that clapper thing that film directors use when they yell "action!") The book is also small enough to take anywhere. The words are arranged by themes so it is easy to take it with you and open up to the section corresponding to your current situation. When your in a car, open up to the "Car" section, when your at home open up to the "home" section, etc. I would say that this is a MUST HAVE book for anyone that wants to vastly increase their Spanish vocab.

this is a very helpful dictionary for someone like me who tends to be a visual learner. there are numerous pictures and vocab words for almost anything you can think of. the only downside is the book is kind of small in size (dimensions). if it were larger it would be easier to read.

I got in touch with DK's "Visual Dictionaries" collection when I started to live in China. I've got the "Chinese/English/Spanish" and the "Chinese/Pinyin/English" dictionaries. Now I bought several units of this "Spanish/English" for my workers.

I manage a Spanish/Chinese company, so I encourage wy workers to learn at least English, but also Spanish if they want. I had the choice of buying for them also the tri-lingual version with Chinese, but I opted for this one.

The whole collection is fully recomendable!

Great book ! Photos are clear, the content is extremely useful. I would recommend this book to holiday makers or residents of spain.

I LOVE this book so much that I have bought it over and over - giving it away as gifts to so many Spanish learners and even Spanish speakers who are not so fluent that they couldn't benefit from a book that provides English, Castilian and Mexican usage for thousands of very specific pictures. Inflatable dinghy? reduced-fat milk? extension cord? after-sun care? It's all here, with DK's characteristically beautiful photos. It's a bit heavy to cart everywhere, but it's so engrossing that it makes any long wait (at the supermarket or doctor's office)an unexpected pleasure.