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    This handy dictionary is the ideal reference book for anyone who wants to improve their Spanish. With more than 38,000 entries, including easy-to-use pronunciation guides and examples of idiomatic use, The Penguin Pocket Spanish Dictionary is the essential Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary for people on the go.
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    The Bantam New College Italian & English Dictionary

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    With 736 pages and more than 70,000 entries — no other portable Italian and English paperbound dictionary offers you so much at such a reasonable price. Designed by foremost authorities, it includes thousands of modern words and definitions you are not likely to find elsewhere.
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