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10 February 2014 at 6:16am | IP Logged

osoymar wrote:

I do look up certain words to test the usefulness of a dictionary, but I have a different strategy- instead of relatively obscure words I generally look for a very common
word likely to have multiple translations, like "put" or "even."

Yes, I do the same thing, but I add in a requirement of lots of example sentences.
I recently looked through a bunch of Spanish dictionaries at a bookstore and compared them by looking up 'hacer' and 'tener' (two really common verbs) in each one and seeing which had the
most (and varied) example sentences.

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