Developments in science and technology have narrowed distances between countries and have made the world a small place. A person living thousands of miles away can learn and undertand the culture and lifestyle of another country with ease. Languages play an important role as facilitators of communication in this respect.

Innumerable surveys have a failed to determine the accurate number of languages spoken globally, though it is estimated that there may be more than 300 official languages around the world. The majority of the world population speaks and understands English whereby it acts as a medium to learn and translate other languages.

To promote such an understanding, STAR Foreign Language BOOKS has planned to bring out a series of bilingual dictionaries, and the current edition is one of them. The unique feature of these dictionaries is that all common and prominent English words have been translated into other languages and vice versa, with their Roman transliteration in alphabetical order. 

This is a humble attempt to bring people of the world closer through language, and thus promote mutual understanding between them.

The dictionaries have been compiled and edited by teachers and scholars of the relative languages.