And since the product only advertises itself as a pocket dictionary and not more, I give it five stars. But I loved it and found it quite helpful. I was able to look up many words quickly and likewise when conversations came to a halt, some of my Burmese friends were able to find the word they were looking for and show it to me so I could understand. 1 It is a guide dictionary for translating between English and the Myanmar Language. And as much as I appreciate phrasebooks, their dictionaries in the back tend to be very limited.īut this dictionary is exactly what I've been looking for! As a low-intermediate speaker of Burmese, I took this dictionary along on a recent trip to Myanmar and found it quite useful for day-to-day conversations. English-Burmese (Myanmar) Outdoors Children s Bilingual Picture Dictionary by Carlson, Richard and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles. MyanmarEnglish Dictionary ( Burmese: -) is a modern Government project in Myanmar (formerly Burma), first published in 1993 by the Government of Myanmar 's Myanmar Language Commission. Alas, after finding several small dictionaries they were either inadequate, poorly organized or just plain too difficult to use. Every since I started studying Burmese, I have been on the lookout for a solid "pocket" Burmese-English/English-Burmese dictionary to carry around instead of retreating to later lookup the words from the large dictionaries on my bookshelf.
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