Latvian-English English-Latvian Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary)

I am very dissapointed in the book you sent me.
I do not know when was the last time this dictionary was edited.To claim that this dictionary is exellent resource for students,travelers etc.is wrong.For example - on page 277 under "Latvia" it is indicated "Latvia"
as "Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic". Latvia has been indipendant since Aug.1991. The same holds true for the other Baltic states. I do not know what the publishers agenda is, but Amazon should take a look at this and not sell books that publish wrong information.
Sincerely,
John Leimanis

If you are going to spend a good deal of time in Latvia and have the need or desire to have a solid detailed dictionary dealing with Latvian then this would be a very good dictionary to own. I purchased it when I was getting ready to go over to Latvia for the first of two Fulbright trips to Latvia and I found it very useful.

The book I purchased was delivered to my house in great condition. It was if I had just bought the book at a book store.

this is a great companion book for the Dicionary and phrase book.
It has many words that the other does not .

I found this dictionary very lacking when used to translate Latvian cookbooks - In fact, most (90%) of the terms were not in the dictonary which I needed a translation for and I finally gave up after about 200 or so misses. I feel the basic foods / ingredients used in every day cooking are the very minimum which should be included in any dictionary. These are every day common items so don't think I am asking too much.

Not very useful for translating cook books.