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Review title: INACCURATE AND DISAPPOINTING
Product review: Hard as it is to find Belarusian-English dictionaries, this volume does a disservice to the Belarusian language and hardly fills the void. It is grossly inaccurate in some respects -- for example, substituting "g" (a sound not native to Belarusian) for "h" in its "pronunciation" guides. The vocabulary is limited, and in some cases marred by Russianisms rather than genuine Belarusian words. It also provides only imperfective versions of verbs, rather than their perfective versions too -- a very important distinction in any Slavic language. Plus, sloppy editing results in poor cross-referencing -- some words appear in the Belarusian section, others only in the English section. Unless one is familiar with Belarusian already, this book can be extremely misleading, more a hindrance than a help. Hippocrene Books needs to maintain better standards of scholarship before publishing.
