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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5451 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 1 of 4 20 June 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you use visual dictionaries? If so, do you find them helpful?
Last year I bought this dictionary: Visuell ordbok: norsk/engelsk/tysk/fransk/spansk I think it is an abbreviated version of PONS Das große Bildwörterbuch Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch but with Norwegian instead of Italian. I haven't used it much, but it seems like a nice resource for learning vocabulary, or more precisely, for learning nouns. Edited by tractor on 20 June 2012 at 5:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 2 of 4 25 June 2012 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
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One obvious reason picture dictionaries might be useful is that they group similar vocabulary, say body parts, all together. However, many of those dictionaries seem to have a lot of technical terms that aren’t needed unless you are, say, fixing a car. Ones aimed at children would be better, there are many for children of various nationalities learning English. One of my favorite books for Burmese at the moment is an illustrated bilingual dictionary for Burmese children with maybe 2,000 words and 4-5 pictures per page (not one picture with many vocab items like in a picture dictionary.) The really useful part is that it gives 2 sample sentences in English and Burmese for each item. Burmese sounds and script are both rather difficult, so just reading simple sentences with basic vocabulary items is quite helpful for reinforcement. There’s a slight danger that since the Burmese sentences are translations of the English, they may not reflect what the Burmese actually say. But that’s a minor point for someone at my level (maybe low intermediate).
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5451 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 4 25 June 2012 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I partly agree. At the beginning stages those aimed at children can be useful. At more advanced stages, however, you'll need a larger vocabulary. Vocabulary relating to cars, for example, can prove useful when you're renting a car on holiday. These are often words that every native speaker knows (not only the experts), but that you probably won't learn from language courses. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 4 of 4 25 June 2012 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I often use google/bing images as a "poorman's" picture dictionary. It works well and doesn't cost anything.
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