Bill owns all of these books.
Table key: B=bi-directional vocabulary, E=vocabulary from English only, G=grammar, P=phrasebook, T=vocabulary from target language only. Number=vocabulary size.
| LANGUAGE | TITLE AND AUTHOR | G | P | Dir | SIZE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo-Saxon | Guide to Old English, Mitchell & Robinson | G | T | 5,000 | |
| Arabic | Arabic at a Glance: Phrase Book & Dictionary for Travelers, Hilary Wise (Barron’s) | G | P | B | 1,600 |
| Arabic | Arabic for Travellers, Berlitz | P | |||
| Arabic | Arabic in a Nutshell, Institute for Language Study | G | |||
| Arabic | English-Arabic Conversational Dictionary, Jaschke | G | P | B | 3,500 |
| Arabic | Arabic Practical Dictionary, Awde & Smith (Hippocrene) | B | 18,000 | ||
| Arabic | Saudi Arabic Basic Course (Urban Hijazi Dialect), Foreign Service Institute | G | T | 1,000 | |
| Arabic | Say it in Arabic, Dover Say It Series | P | E | 500 | |
| Armenian | Armenian Dictionary in Transliteration, Samuelian | P | B | 4,000 | |
| Basque | Vasco-español/español-vasco. (Basque & Spanish dictionary) | G | B | 35,000 | |
| Bengali | Bengali: A complete course for beginners, William Radice | G | T | 1,600 | |
| Bengali | Lonely Planet Bengali Phrasebook, Bimal Maity | G | P | E | 1,200 |
| Breton | Beginner’s Course in Breton, Cork University Press. | G | T | 1,000 | |
| Breton | Grammaire bretonne, Hemon. (Breton grammar in French) | G | |||
| Breton | Lexique breton-français et français-breton, Geriadur et al. (Breton & French dictionary) | B | 12,000 | ||
| Cantonese | Lonely Planet Cantonese Phrasebook, Kam Y. Lau | G | P | B | 1,500 |
| Cherokee | Beginning Cherokee, Holmes & Smith | G | B | 500 | |
| Chinese | Basic English-Chinese/Chinese-English Dictionary, Bergman. | B | 1,000 | ||
| Chinese | Chinese Language Today, Kratochvil | ||||
| Chinese | Chinese Phrase Book & Dictionary, Berlitz | P | E | 1,200 | |
| Chinese | Concise English-Chinese/Chinese-English Dictionary, Oxford | B | 20,000 | ||
| Chinese | Modern Chinese: A Basic Course and Modern Chinese: A Second Course, Faculty of Peking University | G | T | 1,000 | |
| Chinese | Reading & Writing Chinese, McNaughton. (Character dictionary) | T | 2,000 | ||
| Chinese | Say it in Chinese (Mandarin), Dover Say It Series | P | E | 500 | |
| Czech | Modern Czech Grammar, Harkins | G | B | 1,500 | |
| Czech | Say it in Czech, Dover Say It Series | P | E | 500 | |
| Dakota | Sioux Indian Dictionary, Paul WarCloud | E | 4,000 | ||
| Dari | Dari Dictionary & Phrasebook: English–Dari/Dari–English, Awde (Hippocrene) | G | P | B | 5,000 |
| Egyptian | Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Budge | G | T | 400 | |
| Egyptian | Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Watterson | G | B | 300 | |
| English | Pocket Dictionary of American Slang, Wentworth & Flexner | T | |||
| Esperanto | Esperanto Dictionary, Wells | B | 20,000 | ||
| Esperanto | Step by Step in Esperanto, Butler | G | |||
| French | Collins French-English/English-French Dictionary. | B | 30,000 | ||
| French | Look and Learn French, Balakian | G | T | 1,000 | |
| Gaelic | Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language: Gaelic-English/English-Gaelic, MacLennan | B | 25,000 | ||
| Gaelic, Scottish | Scottish Gaelic-English/English-Scottish Gaelic Dictionary, R.W. Renton & J.A. MacDonald | B | 8,500 | ||
| German | german-english/english-german dictionary, Berlitz | B | 12,500 | ||
| German | New Cassell’s German Dictionary | B | 80,000 | ||
| German | Scheisse! The REAL German You Were Never Taught in School, Gertrude Besserwisser | P | B | ||
| Greek | Divry’s Modern English-Greek/Greek-English Desk Dictionary, Divry | B | 78,000 | ||
| Greek | Greek: A new and simple approach for those who want to read Greek literature, Smith & Melluish | G | T | 1,300 | |
| Hausa | Teach Yourself Hausa, Kraft & Kirk-Greene | G | B | 1,500 | |
| Hawaiian | Introduction to the Hawaiian Language, Judd, Pukui, Stokes | B | 5,000 | ||
| Hawaiian | Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary with a Concise Hawaiian Grammar, Pukul, Elbert, & Mookini | G | B | 6,000 | |
| Hawaiian | Short synopsis of the most essential points in Hawaiian grammar, Alexander | G | |||
| Hebrew | Ben-Yehuda’s Pocket English-Hebrew/Hebrew-English Dictionary, Ben-Yehuda & Weinstein | B | 30,000 | ||
| Hebrew | Berlitz Self-Teacher: Hebrew, Berlitz | G | T | 1,100 | |
| Hebrew | Biblical Hebrew, Harrison | G | |||
| Hebrew | Hebrew Phrase Book & Dictionary, Berlitz | P | E | 1,200 | |
| Hebrew | Signet Hebrew-English/English-Hebrew Dictionary, Ben Abba | B | 35,000 | ||
| Hindi | Practical Hindi-English Dictionary, Chaturvedi & Tiwari | T | 30,000 | ||
| Hindi & Urdu | Lonely Planet Hindi & Urdu Phrasebook, Richard Delacy | G | P | E | 2,300 |
| Hungarian | Colloquial Hungarian, Whitney | G | B | 2,500 | |
| Hungarian | Hungarian for Travellers, Berlitz | P | |||
| Icelandic | Icelandic: Grammar, Texts, Glossary | G | T | 6,000 | |
| Icelandic | Teach Yourself Icelandic, Glendening | G | B | 1,500 | |
| Indo-European | American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Watkins | B | 13,000 | ||
| Indonesian | Indonesian: A complete working course, Kwee | G | B | 1,500 | |
| Irish | Easy Reference Irish-English English-Irish Dictionary | B | 24,500 | ||
| Irish | Irish: A complete introductory course, Dillon & Cróinín | G | T | 1,500 | |
| Italian | Basic Italian, Speroni & Golino | G | B | 1,500 | |
| Italian | Random House Italian Dictionary | B | 30,000 | ||
| Japanese | Common Usage Dictionary Japanese-English/English-Japanese | B | 15,000 | ||
| Japanese | Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese (Revised Edition). (Kanji dictionary.) | T | 1,850 | ||
| Japanese | Japanese for Travellers, Berlitz | G | P | ||
| Japanese | Japanese in a Nutshell, Institute for Language Study | G | P | B | 4,000 |
| Japanese | Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionary, Random House (romaji & kanji/kana!) | B | 50,000 | ||
| Japanese | Read Japanese Today, Walsh. (Teaches 300 kanji.) | ||||
| Japanese | Vaccari’s Concise English-Japanese/Japanese-English Dictionary. | P | B | 4,000 | |
| Klingon | Klingon Dictionary | G | P | B | 1,000 |
| Korean | Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook, J.D. Hilts, Minkyoung Kim | G | P | E | 2,200 |
| Korean | Standard English-Korean/Korean-English Dictionary for Foreigners: Romanized, Jones & Rhie | B | 20,000 | ||
| Kurdish | Kurdish-English/English-Kurdish Dictionary, Amindarov | B | 8,000 | ||
| Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz–English/English–Kyrgyz Concise Dictionary, Krippes (Hippocrene) | B | 6,000 | ||
| Latin | Latin for People | G | B | 1,000 | |
| Latin | New College Latin & English Dictionary, Traupman | B | 35,000 | ||
| Loglan | loglan 1: a logical language, Brown | G | |||
| Loglan | loglan 4 & 5: a loglan-english/english-loglan dictionary, Brown | B | 6,000 | ||
| Loglan | Notebook 3: The Present State of the Loglan Language, Brown | G | |||
| Maya | Maya Grammar, Tozzer | G | |||
| Mongolian | Lonely Planet Mongolian Phrasebook, Alan J K Sanders and J Bat-Ireedui | P | E | 1,500 | |
| Narragansett | Key into the Language of America, Williams. | ||||
| Navajo | Colloquial Navaho: A Dictionary, Young & Morgan | P | B | 4,000 | |
| Navajo | Navajo Made Easier, Goossen | G | P | T | 1,000 |
| Nepali | Nepali-English/English-Nepali Dictionary, Raj | B | 6,000 | ||
| Norwegian | Berlitz norwegian-english/english-norwegian dictionary | B | 12,500 | ||
| Norwegian | Say it in Norwegian, Dover Say It Series | P | E | 500 | |
| Ojibwe | Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe, Nichols & Nyholm | B | 7,000 | ||
| Pashto | Pashto Dictionary & Phrasebook: English–Pashto/Pashto–English, Awde, Sarwan (Hippocrene) | G | P | B | 5,000 |
| Persian | Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook, Yavar Dehghani | G | P | B | 2,000 |
| Persian | Modern Persian, Mace | G | B | 750 | |
| Persian | Persian Phrase Book, U.S. War Department, 1944 (TM 30–626) | P | E | 850 | |
| Polish | English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary, W. Kierst | B | 50,000 | ||
| Polish | Polish for Travellers, Berlitz | P | |||
| Portuguese | Hippocrene Portuguese-English/English-Portuguese Dictionary. | B | 30,000 | ||
| Quechua | Quechua Phrasebook, Lonely Planet Language Survival Kit | P | |||
| Romanian | Romanian Dictionary & Phrasebook: English–Romanian/Romanian–English, Mihai Miroiu (Hippocrene) | G | P | B | 5,500 |
| Russian | Learner’s English-Russian Dictionary, Folomkina & Weiser | E | 3,500 | ||
| Russian | Learner’s Russian-English Dictionary, Lapidus & Shevtsova | T | 3,500 | ||
| Russian | Romanov’s Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary | B | 35,000 | ||
| Russian | Russian for Beginners, Duff & Makaroff | G | T | 4,000 | |
| Russian | Russian for Everybody. College textbook package. | ||||
| Russian | Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary, O’Brien | B | 35,000 | ||
| Samoan | Samoan, Marsack | G | B | 600 | |
| Sanskrit | Sanskrit: An Introduction to the Classical Language, Coulson (Teach Yourself Books) | G | B | 2,250 | |
| Sinhala | Lonely Planet Sri Lanka Phrasebook, Swarna Pranaratne | G | P | E | 1,800 |
| Spanish | Collins Spanish-English/English-Spanish Dictionary | B | 30,000 | ||
| Swahili | Swahili Dictionary, Teach Yourself Books | G | B | 12,000 | |
| Swahili | Swahili: A complete working course, Perrott | G | B | 2,000 | |
| Swedish | McKay’s Modern English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary, Nöjd, Tornberg, and Ångström | B | 30,000 | ||
| Tagalog | English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English Dictionary, Guzman | B | 4,000 | ||
| Tagalog | Lonely Planet Pilipino (Tagalog) Phrasebook, Violetta Lorenzana | G | P | B | 1,800 |
| Tagalog | Tagalog for Beginners, Ramos & Guzman | G | T | 500 | |
| Tajik | Tajik–English/English–Tajik English Dictionary & Phrasebook, Conroy & Shukurov (Hippocrene) | G | P | B | 550 |
| Thai | Lonely Planet Thai Phrasebook, Joe Cummings | G | P | B | 1,700 |
| Thai | Thai (Siamese) Phrase Book, U.S. military from World War II (TM 30–631) | P | E | 800 | |
| Thai | Thai Hippocrene Handy Dictionary | G | P | B | 3,000 |
| Tibetan | Lonely Planet Tibetan Phrasebook, Sandup Tsering | P | E | 1,500 | |
| Tolkien | Introduction to Elvish, Allan | ||||
| Tolkien | Languages of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, Noel | ||||
| Tsolyáni | Tsolyáni Language (in two parts), M.A.R. Barker | G | P | B | 2,500 |
| Turkish | Turkish Phrase Book, U.S. military from World War II (TM 30–618) | P | E | 800 | |
| Turkish | Turkish: a Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook | G | P | B | 3,000 |
| Turkish | turkish-english/english-turkish dictionary, Berlitz | B | 12,500 | ||
| Uzbek | Uzbek Dictionary & Phrasebook: English–Uzbek/Uzbek–English, Awde, Dirks, Hikmatullaeva (Hippocrene) | G | P | B | 5,000 |
| Various (African) | African Phrase Book, Berlitz (Arabic, French, Hausa, Malagasy, Portuguese, Shona, Tswana, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu) | P | |||
| Various (Asian & Pacific) | Languages of Asia and the Pacific: A Travellers’ Phrasebook, Hamblin. (Persian, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Burmese, Lao, Thai, Kampuchean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Japanese, Korean, Malay/Indonesian, Tagalog, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Tok Pisin, Fijian, Tongan, Samoan, Tahitian) | G | P | E | 800 |
| Various (Central Asian) | Central Asia Phrasebook, Justin Jon Rudelson for Lonely Planet (major sections for Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Tajik, Tashkorghani, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, with smaller sections for Burushashki, Khowar, Kohistani, Mandarin Chinese, Mongolian, Russian, Shina, Wakhi) | P | |||
| Various (European) | European Phrase Book, Berlitz (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish) | P | |||
| Various (worldwide) | Concise Dictionary of 26 Languages in Simultaneous Translation, Bergman (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese, Yiddish, Esperanto) | B | 1,000 | ||
| Various (worldwide) | Passport to the World, Berlitz (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Swahili, Hindi, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean) | P | E | 80 | |
| Vietnamese | Vietnamese in a Nutshell, Institute for Language Study | G | P | B | 4,000 |
| Vietnamese | Vietnamese-English/English-Vietnamese Dictionary | B | 15,000 | ||
| Zulu | Scholar’s Zulu Dictionary, Dent & Nyembezi | B | 30,000 |