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| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5278 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes  Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 7 31 March 2011 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I've found a good one for English-Spanish on Amazon (Franklin), but it definitely seems this is weaker for other
languages. In particular, built-in flash card and verb conjugation programs would be optimal. Any tips for other languages, e.g. French, German, Italian, Russian, etc.? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 7 31 March 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Asian languages have definitely got the best electronic dictionaries, particularly Chinese, Japanese and Korean. What Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korean or Japanese student doesn't have one?
This continues to puzzle me -- how come electronic dictionaries haven't really caught on yet in the rest of the world? Why aren't companies making decent ones? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5810 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 7 31 March 2011 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I use Aedict for Japanese on my Android phone. It has more words then my Japanese friends
know. Which can cause its own problems. The cost of specialized devices my limit the adoption. I now also use GPS on my phone. Always up to date. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alves Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4999 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 4 of 7 01 April 2011 at 11:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know a good one for Italian - Portuguese. I like to use it, because it gives examples of the word in phrases. Its name is OpenDic and I found it for free on the internet.
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| Tiberius Diglot Groupie Moldova lawinmoldova.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6293 days ago 70 posts - 85 votes Studies: Romanian, Russian*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 5 of 7 05 April 2011 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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As to Russian I must say that today probably the best electronic (and I even think that
not just electronic) dictionary for Russian is Lingvo. I use it all the time for both my English and French studies and it has comprehensive L1- L2 and L2-L1 versions (at least for these two languages - there are also dictionaries for Russian-German, Russian-Italian and other but I have not tried them). It is designed by a Russian company initially for Russian speakers. But it developed so much that can be easily used by other languages speakers studying Russian. It gives a lot of possible different translations, idioms, collocations, phrases, etc. Sometimes I find there more precise meanings for certain words than my Oxford dictionary (English-English) provides. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 7 05 April 2011 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think the poster was asking about electronic dictionaries, not online dictionaries.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5135 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 7 05 April 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
Some of these online dictionary sites have downloadable versions of their dictionaries, which can then be used either with their own dictionary reader or converted/imported into other programs. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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