Visual dictionary

[Scoobyqueen]

My colleague just purchased a visual dictionary which has small photographs of all sorts of useful vocabulary, including animals, anatomy, insects etc. It is just the sort of book you can carry and then if something technical turns up you can quickly look it up. Hers was for Arabic. However it should be available for Chinese. The publisher was called Coventgarden but I am only able to find German-Chinese. I am wondering if anyone has heard of this visual dictionary or if there is a simlar one for Chinese.

[Shelley]

Hello,

This book does not have photos but drawings of thousands of things. You can see a preview at amazon. The book is the Oxford - Duden pictorial chinese English dictionary. I have found it helpful. here is the amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Duden-Pictorial-English-Chinese-Dictionary/dp/0195827856#_

Hope this helps

Shelley

[jbradfor]

Alas, the Amazon preview for me didn't show any of the pages that has pictures!

However, in looking I came across the DK version, which is much smaller (and hence obviously less complete). On the plus side (I guess) it includes pinyin.

[David W Jackson]

I have a copy of the Longman Chinese-English Visual Dictionary of Chinese Culture: http://www.amazon.com/Longman-Chinese-English-Dictionary-Chinese-Mandarin/dp/7810466623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278548098&sr=8-1

It has drawings, not photos, but includes pinyin. Around 580 pages of eminently useful vocab. There's a link here: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/10734-picture-dictionary/

[roddy]

As an alternative, Google Image search works much the same way.

[dumdumdum]

you should probably get this:

visual dict

comes in 5 languages, eng/fr/deu/jap/chn. got one for my girlfriend a couple of years ago for 45rmb, at annual di'tan book exhibition.

[jbradfor]

As an alternative, Google Image search works much the same way.

I find Google Image search only useful the other way around: if I find the name of something I don't know, and I want to know what it is. These types of books I find more useful when I have a mental image of something, and I want to know it's names. For these situations, how would you suggest using google image search?

[aristotle1990]

I find Google Image search only useful the other way around: if I find the name of something I don't know, and I want to know what it is. These types of books I find more useful when I have a mental image of something, and I want to know it's names. For these situations, how would you suggest using google image search?

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