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Title: 21st Century German-English English-German Dictionary by Princeton Lang Inst ISBN: 0-440-22089-0 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99

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Average Customer Rating: 1.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: All but Useless
Comment: As other reviewers have mentioned, the most annoying problem with this dictionary is its limited vocabulary. The cover boasts 30,000 vocabulary entries, but they are most certainly not sufficient for anyone who wishes to communicate successfully in German. It is designed to be easy-to-read, with larger-than-normal print and plenty of white space, but I rather wish they had made the text a couple of sizes smaller and filled the extra space with useful vocabulary. It's also rather silly to give childish phonetic pronunciations for every word in the dictionary, since German is, in most cases, very phonetic and easy to pronounce in the first place. Conspicuously absent is some sort of section on irregular verb conjugation, such as can be found in many other similar dictionaries.

Rating: 1
Summary: Simple but extremely inadequate
Comment: This dictionary, though simple to use, is missing far too many necessary words to be of any use to even a beginning student of German. I showed the book to my German teacher, and he advised throwing it away.

Rating: 2
Summary: Aggravating
Comment: I bought this dictionary for the express purpose of helping me (before I gain proficiency in German) read philosophical discourses which make use of untranslated words in German (these are very common). Sadly, this dictionary seems to have none of the words that I've needed. Even the simplest of expressions, like the Erlebnis, are wholly absent from this dictionary (as far as I can tell... unless this dictionary has a "secret compartment" where all its more useful words are waiting, somewhere beyond the ken of those of us trapped in a merely phenomenological existence...)

Perhaps it's useful for people who want quick reference while travelling through Germany... however I have doubts even about this as (in the English section) I couldn't even find words that I KNOW exist, like the equivalent of "good bye"...

In sort- it's frustrating. But maybe there are SOME that could make use of it, and so (since I'm a charitable sort) I'll give it 2 stars instead of 1...