Negative Positive
Title: lack of pinyin for English->Chinese a huge problem for English speakers learning Chinese
Review: As mentioned by another reviewer, the lack of pinyin in the English to Chinese part of this dictionary is a huge problem; it means that if you look up an English word and want to know how to pronounce the Chinese equivalent, you need to look up the Chinese (which requires looking up each character by radical and stroke count). Likewise, to learn more about each character within the Chinese, you need to look up each one by radical and stroke count rather than going directly to the character (since the Chinese part of the dictionary is sorted by pinyin, with a radical/stroke index).TheCollins Chinese Concise Dictionaryis very similar to this, but has that one glaring problem fixed, and is therefore much more useful. Its extra inch of width and half inch of height is definitely worth it.
Is the review positive or negative? 