Oxford English-Hindi Dictionary (Multilingual Edition) 2010th Edition

A quality publication worthy of having the Oxford brand attached to it. Comprehensive and exhaustive. Perfect for any student studying Hindi. My edition was hardcover and big, so it is not so useful if you are packing it to travel, but perfect for any linguists library.

I have another dictionary and phrase book by the same person and find the both useful but frustrating sometimes. I wish there was in this dictionary a list of the Hindi alphabet since it's not the same as the romanized version of HIndi words. Often I can't find words that I see and hear in Indian movies so I can't tranlste them. I also wish I could buy a dictionary of Hindi slang or street language as most modern movies are full of that and not the more formaal Hindi in a dictionary.

If you are trying to learn Hindi this is a great book to start off with. It has loads of information to help you begin the process of learning Hindi. Also the English word is also spelled out so you can see different.

This dictionary is indeed rather complex. I read the script perfectly and even still can't make much sense out of a great deal of it. Whether or not its in script or not is not the issue here. The issue is alot of the words aren't really the words used in Hindi. They are more words adopted from English than the sanskritized words. So for those of us wishing to learn the traditional truely Hindi words this could pose a problem. Another thing that is ridiculous is alot of basic words such as "Spanish" aren't in this dictionary. For a dictionary that is supposed to be so concise I'd hardly consider basic words like "Spanish" a word to leave out. I am sure there are better dictionaries out there and wouldn't really recommend it, but I suppose it's better than nothing.

Works great for my ESL students. It is important to keep in mind, of course, that this is a one-way dictionary. You need the companion Hindi-English dictionary if you want to go the other way.

Get it in kindle so that you can enlarge the characters and also buy the flashcards to speed up your memorization.

I really appreciate the fact that the book was sent out rather quickly. It is also a thorough dictionary. It was just what I expected and more.

I am very happy with it. It is meant for students who know the language not for beginners. It is meant to improve one's vocabulary.Anita