kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4890 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 1 of 3 18 July 2014 at 4:09am | IP Logged |
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a kindle pop-up dictionary for Italian?
I am using the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and it doesn't recognize close to 1/3 of the
words I select - and I'm reading Harry Potter, not some exotic or literary work with a
lot of rare phrases. I've needed to keep a regular dictionary handy as back up, which
defeats the purpose of reading on a kindle.
Interestingly, the Merriam-Webster French dictionary is really good.
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2 of 3 18 July 2014 at 11:24am | IP Logged |
Unfortunately I don't have a good one to recommend, but I have another to not particularly recommend: "An Electronic Italian Dictionary". It works great half the time, but it seems extremely incomplete: some conjugated forms of verbs will automatically show the entry for the infinitive, but others will just say "3rd person passato remoto of XYZ" so you then need to look up XYZ to find the meaning. Same for many plural forms of nouns: "plural of XYZ". Also, the definitions are nowhere near as complete as in something like WordReference, and again, many words just aren't in it. Half the time if I don't know a word, the dictionary doesn't either.
Despite all that, it's certainly better than nothing and it's helped me, and the price isn't bad although I'd prefer to pay more for something more complete.
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 3 18 July 2014 at 11:51am | IP Logged |
If your Kindle is an Android device. You should be able to use this popup dictionary.
Popup Dictionary Google Play
You can set it to use google translate with Italian / English.
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