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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 28 2008
A nice enough book with heavy weight paper. Not really a dictionary from the English perspective. It is set up with 2-10 pages for each letter of the alphabet, A-Z. Airplane, Alphabet, Antelope, Antlers, Aligator are all on the A page. However, those words don't all start with Alif (A) in Arabic. So it seems this book would be better for an Arabic speaking child learning english than vice versa. Also, the index in the back is organized by arabic letters, so all the words in the book starting with Alif (A) are listed together in the index under Alif. so if you are looking for the word Alligator, and you don't know that it starts with Q, you wouldn't be able to find it in the index. It is not the best setup for English to Arabic usage. I would have preferred to see the book set up by subject matter (parts of the body, days of the week, colors, types of vehicles, whatever) The translations are accurate according to my husband, not an Egyptian dialect but standard Arabic. (I asked him to check it out for me after reading a review for another book that was supposed to be Arabic but the reviewer said it was really Farsi!!) Had a hint of a musty odor. I will try to find another picture dictionary.
