My First French/English Visual Dictionary - Hardcover

Corbeil, Jean-Claude; Archambault, Ariane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1554071933 ISBN 13: 9781554071937

Publisher: Firefly Books, 2006

Synopsis

Learning a new language through realistic color illustrations.

This is a beginning bilingual dictionary with 1,300 color illustrations and 1,600 terms in each language.

Learning a new language, like learning to read, is easier when the reader can put an image to the term or word. These two new visual dictionaries are perfect for introducing French or English to young children.

Lifelike color illustrations describe and identify items, and each is shown with the word in both English and the second language. Beside the French word, the gender appears as well.

There are 1,600 beginning terms in each language, organized in 36 themes that children experience in daily life -- at home, at play, and at daycare or school. The themes include:

• The body
• The weather
• The body in motion
• Jobs
• Clothing
• School
• The meal
• Colors and shapes
• Familiar animals
• Numbers and letters
• Dinosaurs
• Sports
• Plants

Outstanding for its realistic illustrations and clear labels, My First French/English Visual Dictionary is stimulating and fun to use. It is a perfect introduction for young children learning French or English as a second language.

About this title

About the Author

Jean-Claude Corbeil is a consultant and expert in linguistic planning with a worldwide reputation in the fields of comparative terminology and sociolinguistics.

Ariane Archambault is a specialist in applied linguistics who taught foreign languages before becoming a terminologist and editor of dictionaries.

Reviews

In addition to this work, authors Corbeil and Archambault have worked together on I^ The Firefly Visual Dictionary (Firefly Books, 2002) and I^ The Firefly Junior Visual Dictionary Using the same basic arrangement but in a larger and simpler format, the I^ My First versions attempt to capture another (younger) segment of the market

There are 36 themes--among them "Clothing," "Colors and Shapes," "Dinosaurs," "Space," and "Sports"--selected to appeal to primary-age children. Each theme has a double-page spread of small to medium-sized individual illustrations of items allied to the theme. The other 1,300 illustrations are large and in full color and are accompanied by the English word in boldface letters with the word in the other language underneath. The typeface is large and uncluttered and easy to see, although there are no pronunciation guides and no other explanatory text. Separate English and French indexes complete the book.

Public libraries with a large primary-grade audience and school libraries with bilingual programs will find this to be an attractive and useful additions. And at this price, one may want to consider purchasing additional copies to circulate. Dona Helmer
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Edition details

• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554071933
• ISBN 13: 9781554071937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80