Bilingual Picture Dictionaries by Richard Carlson

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Bilingual Picture Dictionaries by Richard Carlson

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon May 30, 2022 5:05 pm

Recently I noticed that our library carries books written by (compiled by?) Richard Carlson. The menu section in the upper left-hand corner of his website has a long list of titles, each of which provides an even longer list of language combinations.

Our bilingual bundle happens to be in Swedish and *drum roll* Cantonese, or more specifically "Traditionell kinesisk kantonesiska" / "Chinese Traditional Cantonese". I have had a look in one of them just to check if it has traditional characters or actual written Cantonese.

Free sample here:
http://www.richardcarlson.com/resources ... tonese.pdf

Earlier today, I had another look. My reading skills in any form of Chinese is nothing to write home about, but it felt like Standard Chinese, but with trad characters. Maybe I'm wrong.

Is anyone here familiar with him / his language skills / his works?

* Most of his Chinese books are presented like this:
  • English/Chinese Mandarin Traditional
  • English/Chinese Simplified Mandarin
  • English/Chinese Traditional Cantonese
  • English/Chinese Traditional Mandarin (Taiwan)
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Re: Bilingual Picture Dictionaries by Richard Carlson

Postby tommus » Mon May 30, 2022 11:05 pm

His one and only English - Dutch picture dictionary has no definite articles (de, het) for any of the Dutch nouns. Anyone learning Dutch (and probably other languages that have specific definite articles for nouns) knows that such a dictionary is of very little value.
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