--- product_id: 6796695 title: "Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition)" price: "Rp740699" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/6796695-oxford-beginners-japanese-dictionary-multilingual-edition store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition) **Price:** Rp740699 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition) - **How much does it cost?** Rp740699 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/6796695-oxford-beginners-japanese-dictionary-multilingual-edition) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition): 9780199298525: Oxford Languages: Books Review: My mainstay in Japan, and my favorite dictonary. - I have used this dictionary for many years, and re-ordered it many times over as I give my copies away to others who are studying. I used in extensively in Japan. It includes sections of Japanese cultural notes, and sections on how-to-use guides. Its examples are quite illustrative, showing how something could be used. It does assume you are learning Japanese from elsewhere, and will either know sentence structures, or be able to look them up. My personal favorite feature is that it does not use romanized characters (English letters) in it Japanese sections. This is a must for a serious language student, because romanized letters are well-documented to impede Japanese language acquisition: there are multiple ways to transliterate Japanese words. Most importantly, if you're in Japan, and must depend on English letters, then you are functionally illiterate. This dictionary is not exhaustive, but no portable dictionary could possibly have every word you might want in it. That said, it's small enough to be portable--barely--namely in cargo pockets or in a backpack. Yet it is large enough to be easy to read, and have a solid selection of words. If you are serious about learning Japanese, it might be worth investing in a second more-comprehensive dictionary, I have certainly purchased several. However, this is the dictionary you want with you when you are walking around town, or driving to a friend's place. It followed me everywhere. This is bar-none, my favorite English/Japanese dictionary. (I lived 2 years in Japan, and continue to study the language with an eye to return there permanently.) Review: Useful for language learning - This is quite useful ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #411,931 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #420 in Dictionaries (Books) #728 in Foreign Dictionaries & Thesauruses #1,098 in Foreign Language Instruction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (651) | | Dimensions | 5.07 x 0.93 x 7.7 inches | | Edition | Bilingual | | ISBN-10 | 0199298521 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0199298525 | | Item Weight | 15.3 ounces | | Language | English, Japanese | | Part of series | Bilingual Dictionaries | | Print length | 480 pages | | Publication date | October 16, 2006 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | ## Images ![Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bVBLOq3cL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My mainstay in Japan, and my favorite dictonary. *by E***M on January 19, 2015* I have used this dictionary for many years, and re-ordered it many times over as I give my copies away to others who are studying. I used in extensively in Japan. It includes sections of Japanese cultural notes, and sections on how-to-use guides. Its examples are quite illustrative, showing how something could be used. It does assume you are learning Japanese from elsewhere, and will either know sentence structures, or be able to look them up. My personal favorite feature is that it does not use romanized characters (English letters) in it Japanese sections. This is a must for a serious language student, because romanized letters are well-documented to impede Japanese language acquisition: there are multiple ways to transliterate Japanese words. Most importantly, if you're in Japan, and must depend on English letters, then you are functionally illiterate. This dictionary is not exhaustive, but no portable dictionary could possibly have every word you might want in it. That said, it's small enough to be portable--barely--namely in cargo pockets or in a backpack. Yet it is large enough to be easy to read, and have a solid selection of words. If you are serious about learning Japanese, it might be worth investing in a second more-comprehensive dictionary, I have certainly purchased several. However, this is the dictionary you want with you when you are walking around town, or driving to a friend's place. It followed me everywhere. This is bar-none, my favorite English/Japanese dictionary. (I lived 2 years in Japan, and continue to study the language with an eye to return there permanently.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Useful for language learning *by P***U on October 5, 2025* This is quite useful ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wire" and "Hip" vs. "Intensive Care Unit" and "Zebra Crossing" *by P***S on June 10, 2012* Most of the rest of the reviews cover the pros and cons of this book. But they leave one important bit of information that I wanted (before I bought the book) and could not find: how many words (entries) it has. The book itself doesn't say this, but I estimated (counting entries per page on three pages, taking the average, and multiplying by pages. The answer seems to be about 4500-5000 entries. So there: there's the info for those looking for it (like I was). That's pretty small for a dictionary, but fair for a beginner's dictionary. The word choice seems a bit odd though. For instance, there is no entry for "hip", but there's an entry for "intensive care unit". There's no entry for "wire" but there's an entry for "zebra crossing". Really? How many Zebra Crossings are there in Japan? This makes me wonder how these words were chosen. It clearly wasn't a word frequency list or something like "basic english". I kind of expect beginners are more likely to want to know words like wire and hip than words like intensive care unit and zebra crossing. Nonetheless I give this dictionary a recommendation, because it's the only dictionary I know of that lets you look up alternative conjugations of a word and find something. For example, if you are a beginner and hear "itte", which is a form of iku (to go), and try to look it up in some other dictionary, that word likely won't appear as "itte" in any Japanese-English dictionary I know of besides this one. Same thing with "yonde" and so on; it's very useful for a beginner to be able to look up the "non-dictionary" forms of words and be directed towards the dictionary form. ## Frequently Bought Together - Oxford Beginner's Japanese Dictionary (Multilingual Edition) - A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar - Genki Textbook Volume 1, 3rd edition (Genki (1)) (Multilingual Edition) (English and Japanese Edition) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/6796695-oxford-beginners-japanese-dictionary-multilingual-edition](https://www.desertcart.id/products/6796695-oxford-beginners-japanese-dictionary-multilingual-edition) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-08*