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Title: Good, but not as helpful as I expected.
Review: I have some pen pals in Germany and write to them in German. I also like techical things.The index materials in this book make it easy to use, whether going from German to English or vice versa. Sometimes the book scores a direct hit. Sometimes the information is too general to be of much use. I have often done as well with careful use of a good German-English/English-German dictionary.If I cannot find what I want in print, I search the German version of Amazon for the item and see what word(s) are used in describing it. Often there are German-English glossaries available for download to give more detailed technical terms for a subject. I have used this for photographic and for computer terms. More than once I have been surprised to find the Germans have simply borrowed English terms, often without really "germanizing" them, even though there may be an actual legitimate German term for the item.
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