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Collins Easy Learning German Dictionary Book
The Collins Easy Learning German Dictionary is the learner’s dictionary in the Collins Easy Learning style: a German–English and English–German dictionary designed not for scholars but for students — clear layouts, plain explanations, and the help with grammar and usage that beginners actually need at the moment of looking a word up.
Its entries go beyond bare translation: nouns carry their gender and plural, verbs their key forms, and the common words are shown in example phrases, with notes that head off the classic mistakes — the false friends, the wrong case, the word that is correct but never said. The Easy Learning design keeps pages uncluttered so answers are found in seconds.
It is written for school and adult learners alike: pupils with homework and examinations, self-teachers reading their first German books, and travellers who want a dictionary that teaches a little with every look-up.
Most dictionaries are reference works; the Easy Learning dictionary is quietly a teacher. Its distinguishing features are the learner’s apparatus around the entries: verb tables for the patterns that matter, grammar panels where a look-up usually leads (cases, word order, adjective endings), usage notes in plain English, and a choice of headwords governed by what learners meet — school texts, stories, signs, and conversation — rather than by lexicographic completeness. The two-way design serves both directions of a learner’s day: decoding German when reading, and producing German when writing or speaking, with the example sentences doing double duty as models to imitate. For students in the GCSE and early A-level years, and for adult beginners who want one trustworthy dictionary for the whole foundation stage, it is sized and priced exactly right.
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About This Book
A learner’s first dictionary shapes their whole relationship with a language: the wrong one intimidates, the right one accompanies. The Collins Easy Learning German Dictionary is built to accompany — a school-and-self-study dictionary whose entries, examples, and grammar help are all designed for people who are learning German now, not for people who already know it.
What Learners Will Find
Two-Way Dictionary Coverage
German-to-English for reading and English-to-German for writing, with headwords chosen from the vocabulary learners actually meet: the words of school, stories, travel, family, food, technology, and everyday life in German-speaking countries.
Grammar Inside the Entries
Genders and plurals with every noun, principal parts with verbs, case government marked where verbs and prepositions demand it, and example phrases that show each word behaving correctly in a sentence — the dictionary as a grammar tutor consulted a word at a time.
Help That Prevents Mistakes
Usage notes on the traps: false friends between English and German, words with several meanings separated by context, register warnings, and the little panels of core grammar — articles, cases, verb patterns — placed where look-ups lead.
Key Features
Clarity is the feature: typography and layout built for fast, unfrightening look-ups, with the learner’s questions answered on the same page. The Collins corpus behind it is the second — entries and examples reflect real, current German rather than dictionary German of a century ago.
Who This Book Is For
It is for school pupils from the first year of German through GCSE and beyond, adult beginners and returners, parents helping with homework, and teachers who recommend one dictionary to a whole class. Travellers who prefer paper to apps will find it equally serviceable.
How to Use This Book
Look words up in both directions — reading German, check the entry’s examples to fix the usage, not just the meaning; writing German, start from the English side and imitate the model sentence. Learn every noun with its article as one item. Keep the dictionary open beside reading and homework rather than shelved: a learner’s dictionary earns its keep by being consulted a dozen times a day.
Related Books
A traveller’s dictionary-phrasebook is The Rough Guide to German Dictionary. Vocabulary by photograph is in the German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary.
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