Periplus Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary: Vietnamese-English English-Vietnamese (Revised and Expanded Edition) (Periplus Pocket Dictionaries)

I was fluent in Vietnamese 38 years ago during the war. I will return soon to tour Vietnam, and need a quick reference for all the vocabulary that I have forgotten since I was there 38 years ago. This dictionary is perfect for this. If one did not have a basic knowledge of Vietnamese, this book would be less useful. But with a basic understanding of how Vietnamese works, this book provides a great reference to words needed in every-day conversation.

Text size makes reading tone and diacritical marks difficult to see, magnification needed sometimes.

I use it everyday. It’s so handy. Definitely helping me to learn to speak and read Vietnamese

Honestly, I can't speak more than a few words of Vietnamese--and I'm probably not doing that right! =PBut my friend is Vietnamese, and she loved this book! She was born in America, so she doesn't speak Vietnamese fluently, but she's really close. And whenever she forgets something while talking to her parents or other family members, she goes straight to this book. =) And, although I don't speak Vietnamese, I own this book and try to talk to her using it. =S Once again, not very well. Haha. ^.^ But it is a very useful book!

Some of the words are not as accurately translated as I had hoped. Still had to have a native speaker to translate accurately many words.

This book is concised and to the point. It is a perfect dictionary for day-to-day conversation. I am a native speaker living in the United States for over 25 years. My Vietnamese is rusty and, therefore, having a hard time expressing my ideas in conversations. This book helped me because it has practical words that I can use right a way. This is a must have for everyone. Thank you! (I suggest to also get The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English-Vietnamese addition.)

I got it for a gift for my girlfriend as shes Vietnamese and doesnt speak it. So we were learning together and was very fun and exciting. We are no longer together, but I do recommend the book to anyone as it is a very good book!

A difficult translation from VN to English was observed by this reader. The dictionary doesn't seem to always match the written word as put forward by the interest group that I work with. Often the spelling doesn't appear in the dictionary for VN to English or the regional dialect of my group is different from the writers' focus. I can't complain too much because the on-line translation from google also doesn't make sense a lot of times also. Anyway, the Periplus pocket dictionary may work much better if going from English to VN. That I can only guess. Thanks for the opportunity to make the review.

more vietnamese dictionary/word books please!

Good quality

Sent to my friend as a gift for her trip to Vietnam. She was quite pleased with it.

TUTTLE の MINI DICTIONARY と PERIPLUS の POCKET DICTIONARY は同じものです。値段もほとんど同じなので、大きさで選べば良いと思います。MINI は文庫本の半分のサイズで、323頁、POCKET は新書より2cm 背が高くて、144頁です。使用するためには、あらかじめ声調符号をマスターしておく必要があります。本書の解説でイントネーションのイメージを掴むのは、至難の業です。

収録語数3000語とありますが、viet-anhがそれくらいでanh-vietはそれよりもちょっと少ない。word to wordの情報しかなく学習用にはあまりむかないと思いますが、なんといっても薄くて軽いので持ち運びには便利です。ベトナム語は電子辞書に良いものがないので、現状ではこういうポケット版の辞書を持ち歩くのが現実的だと思います。ま、なんといっても安いし