The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary offers a comprehensive guide to the German language, from general vocabulary to specialist and technical terminology, from formal language to slang. The range makes accessible every aspect of the German speaking world of today through meticulous description of its language and its cultural institutions. Based on the evidence of the language databanks maintained and continuously expanded by Oxford University Press and the Dudenverlag, every title in the range provides a more accurate, up-to-date, and complete picture of real languages than has ever been possible before.