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Websters Icelandic - English Thesaurus Dictionary | 
| Author: Philip M. Parker
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $28.95
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 757034
Media: Paperback
Pages: 734
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.8
ISBN: 0497835185
EAN: 9780497835187
ASIN: 0497835185
Publication Date: January 3, 2008
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Product Description
If you are learning Icelandic, this book was not created for you, and you should not purchase it. It was created for completely fluent mother-tongue speakers of Icelandic who already know the full meaning of Icelandic words, but who need to learn how a single English translation of a Icelandic word may have ambiguous meanings in the English language. It is designed for bi-lingual education for the non-English reader who wants to improve English-language test scores covering English synonyms. Synonyms may bear no relationship to a translation word (e.g. “love” can signify both an emotion and a score of zero in tennis; zero, while being a synonym of love, is likely to be a bad translation to the original Icelandic headword). This is a regular English thesaurus, like Roget’s, but the entries are sorted alphabetically using headwords from Icelandic. It cannot be used to translate between the two languages, but may help a fluent speaker of Icelandic who is learning basic English, to learn the ambiguities of the English language and its vocabulary. The synonyms for each headword are not translations; Icelandic words are used to facilitate “looking up” English synonyms. Prior to purchase, educators and students should review the contents of this unique form of thesaurus which is free to view on Google books, or using Amazon’s “look inside” function. Public domain translations used were contributed to Webster’s Online Dictionary and have originated from uncited volunteers, native speakers, professional translators, field linguists and academics (not by the editor of the thesaurus). If you would like citation for any translations, make suggestions, note errors, or contribute in any other way, please email Philip M. Parker at INSEAD, who will periodically update this series. Reproduction rights are granted to educators.
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Interesting but... October 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
...there are some mistakes. Forgivable anyway, as this is the very first edition of the thesaurus. I find the idea of the book really helpful - a large range of vocabulary (through synonyms) can be found inside. Very helpful for everyone who wants to expand their icelandic vocabulary. As soon as mistakes are corrected I'll rate this item with 5 stars.
not bad July 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found this book to be quite good considering. I don't know of a (non-english to english) dictionary to be as complete as I would like but this one does quite well. As long as you have a second that has a different look at the same (non-english to english) dictionary.
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