kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4917 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 1 of 4 24 February 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
Does anyone have good recommendations for foreign-language dictionaries for the eReaders? Or do you know of any to avoid?
I downloaded the Merriam-Webster French-English dictionary, and it is a fantastic tool with one fatal flaw: it does not recognize contractions. e.g.: the dictionary will recognize a word like "argent," but not "l'argent." I haven't found a way around this.
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jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6322 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 2 of 4 25 February 2012 at 6:50am | IP Logged |
I downloaded an App called iReaderStudy a while back for the iPad. I don't know what other platforms it is available on.
It has built in dictionaries for a number of languages. Seems OK but for some reason I don't use it much. (Probably too much time surfing this site or Wikipedia.)
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TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4889 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German
| Message 3 of 4 25 February 2012 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
The Marriam Webster dictionary for my kindle touch works great in German. I'd say it's
one flaw is that it's quite bad at compound words (which is pretty often) but most of the
time you can figure those out based on the context and the basic nature of the German
language.
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jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6292 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish
| Message 4 of 4 26 February 2012 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
I have a dictionary for Italian and two for Latin on my kindle and all three work perfectly. You might want to do
a google search for kindle dictionaries since this was how I found the Lewis and Short Latin dictionary. It
came as a .prc file on someones website and I side-loaded it. Hope you are able to find one that works better
for French.
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