Oxford Russian Minidictionary
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Editor: Della ThompsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: Russian (Unknown); Russian (Original Language); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-22
ISBN: 0198614578
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: A useful pocket dictionary, with good coverage of some matters, though I prefer the Random House for its dimensions
Summary: 3 Stars
Having lost my Random House pocket Russian dictionary, a steadfast companion for many years, and then soon after the Russian printing of the Collins Gem Russian Dictionary I bought to replace it, I've now started using the OXFORD RUSSIAN MINI DICTIONARY. The dictionary portion is adequate for my needs ("40,0000 words and phrases, 60,000 translations"), but my needs are simple and I'm mainly concerned with colloquial use of the language. There are, of course, bound to be topics that the dictionary doesn't cover for you, especially any sort of formal literary registers, but that's why it's important to invest in a large home dictionary instead of relying solely on a pocket mini dictionary. I am pleased by its coverage of irregular masculine noun plurals in -a and in its clear listing of both perfective and imperfective infinitives.
In addition the to English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary, this contains a number of supplementary materials. These include spelling rules and brief coverage of declension of Russian nouns and adjectives and conjugation. There is also a list of irregular English verbs, though this dictionary is not widely sold in the Russian Federation and I imagine only a small minority of people using it are Russians learning English. In the middle of the dictionary, between the English-Russian and Russian-English portions, there is a small listing with phrases useful in tourism. I'm not sure much of this is going to be useful, since if you speak Russian well enough to have brought a dictionary along, you probably have sufficient command of the grammar to express yourself, even if through some amount of circumlocution.
These supplementary materials contribute slightly to the downside I see with the dictionary, for while it is very lightweight, it is much thicker than it ought to be. It will fit only into larger pockets, and takes up an annoying large amount of space in a backpack if you are using it in travels in Russia. I'm really missing my Random House dictionary, which was a couple of centimetres taller than either the Oxford or the Collins Gem, but much slimmer. On the other hand, one should commend the publishing house for its typesetting, which wastes little space on the page, as opposed to the disastrous Oxford series of pocket grammars.
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