Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Developed by a team of language experts and educators, these fun
dictionaries for children ages four to nine are a goldmine of more than
1,000 colorfully illustrated words. Berlitz kids Picture Dictionaries are
packed with essential words young language learners need to know such as
colors, shapes, numbers, family members, and animals. Every word is
accompanied by a translation, a simple sentence, and a colorful picture. A
conversation section contains valuable phrases essential for beginners, and
special pages introducing topics such as clothing, insects, flowers/plants,
and toys that will teach children about things that are proven most
appealing to them.
About the Author
In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the
Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group
of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and
international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual
dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and
languages in every continent.
Product Details
- Reading level: Ages 4-8
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Berlitz Kids; 2 edition (February 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 981246431X
- ISBN-13: 978-9812464316
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
- Average Customer Review:
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Pictures and Sentences, November 18, 2004
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D.
Burns (Galveston,
Texas) |
I started to learn spanish recently on my own in order to teach my
newborn daughter spanish as she grew up. I bought several adult learning
books along the way. Spanish By Association was my favorite to get me
started building vocabulary right away. It also threw in a dozen or so
simple and easy to use grammar rules. I recommend that book.
However, I started looking at the kids spanish learning books recently and
found there are some approaches in them that the adult books don't cover.
First, the Berlitz Kid's Span Dictionary uses every word in a spanish
sentence, which my adult spanish dictionaries don't do. I personally like to
see words used in a sentence and most dictionaries, nor flashcards include
senteces. Secondly, in McGraw-Hill's Spanish Picture Dictionary, each page
is a common scene from life; kitchen, living room, garden, park, etc and all
the objects in the scene are label in spanish and english. I love this idea
and I have made xerox copies of each room page and taped in that room in my
house. As parents, we use these scenes to help us remember and learn the
vocabulary for each room when we are in at the time. So, when we are in the
kitchen, we use and learn the kitchen words as we cook. It seems this would
work for kids also. They could study the words for each room anytime they
were in there.
The Berlitz book does mix in some of the "scene" pages, but they are so
scattered and random that they don't have the impact that the dedicated
scene books have. If they would have put them all in one location in the
book, it would have been more compelling. I still like the book for it's
pictures and the word being used in a sentence. The Cat in the Hat Spanish
Dictionary is similar to this book. It has the word in a sentence and
cartoons for each word, but doesn't have the scene pages. Kids my like the
Suess book for it's Suess drawings, but I think the Berlitz book has just as
much good info. |
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