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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 6 05 May 2010 at 4:57am | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know of a really good Korean dictionary online? I have been looking around
for something like the equivalent of WWJDIC in Japanese but I can't find anything nearly as good. Any advice ? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5787 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 2 of 6 05 May 2010 at 11:27am | IP Logged |
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You can try NAVER 사전. NAVER is the most popular search engine in S.Korea and their dictionaries came recommend by a few friends living and studying in Korea.
Yahoo!Korea 사전 is another option. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7081 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 3 of 6 05 May 2010 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
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I second Naver. Whenever I don't have my dictionary with me and I'm on a computer, I rely on Naver. I even use Naver for other languages; especially Japanese.
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 4 of 6 05 May 2010 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
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I've had decent luck with http://bluedic.com/ as well as the already-mentioned Naver dictionary.
Naver also has a toolbar for Firefox, which has some dictionary functionality built-in: http://toolbar.naver.com (I've played around with the toolbar some, but since I use Opera 99% of the time, it isn't all that useful to me.) Unfortunately, the translation functions of the Naver toolbar are all in the "to Korean" direction, so you can't use it to get on the fly translations of Korean words into English (which is what I was hoping when I downloaded it). It can translate both Chinese characters and English words into Korean, though. Also, the toolbar's menus are all in Korean (which you may have already guessed). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Balliballi Groupie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4696 days ago 70 posts - 115 votes Studies: Korean | Message 5 of 6 21 January 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
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The dictionary that you get in Korea on your smart phone (Android) is excellent. It also has hanja for homophones. I don't know if you can get it outside of Korea though. I couldn't find it in the Android store when I came to America and bought a smart phone there. The iPhone dictionary isn't as good. It often just gives a one-word definition and doesn't go into all the frequently occurring collocations and expressions.
I am in America right now and I downloaded some free dictionaries onto the smart phone by going into the Android app store. There were a couple that were OK but not as good as the one that comes with your (Android) phone in Korea. You have to also download the Korean keyboard which you can do for free. There was one where you say the word in English or in Korean and it gives you the translation. It was really cool and it worked for the simple words I tested. But I don't know whether I really need this right now. I use a Mac and I found this dictionary to be OK. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hedictionary-english-korean/i d429597948?mt=12 The problem is you have to type the complete word as it's found in the dictionary otherwise it will tell you that the word doesn't exist. (With the Android dictionary, I didn't have that problem. I can type part of the word or a word with a slightly different ending and a list of possible matches comes up.) This dictionary is pretty similar to the Android one I found. There is another dictionary called Red Leaf Korean English dictionary which you can purchase through the Apple App store, but it didn't work for my operating system which is 10.6. I think you need a 10.7 for it to work. I didn't find Naver any good, and stay away from Google Translate (and other translators) unless you can't find the word in any of your dictionaries. (I used Google Translate for many months when I first started learning Korean and it really wrecked my understanding of Korean vocabulary for me. It doesn't give you roots, and it often comes up with very strange definitions.) Bluedic.com is good but for some words like "정" which has many meanings, the layout is very confusing. There is a Declan's dictionary for PCs. It's very comprehensive, has like 25,000 words. I haven't seen it myself though - just saw the information about it when surfing the web for a dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 6 of 6 21 January 2012 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
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Since Balliballi bumped this thread, I'll comment on my post above. I don't recall the last time I've used bluedic.com, so I can't confirm that my recommendation still stands. I was using Daum's dictionary for quite a while, but I've moved to Naver's almost exclusively now (and have for well over a year now). I like the results layout of the Naver dictionary better and they give Hanja, if available. However, I just recently visited Daum again and they've completely revamped the layout and also seem to give Hanja now, so that may have changed, but I'm still rather attached to Naver, so I continue to use that as my primary source and only check in with Daum when I feel the need for a second opinion (which is very rare).
Naver also recently added a checkbox to switch the dictionary UI to English, though I've not personally used this function, since I already know the basic layout anyway. However, I could see that being very useful for beginners. Edited by Warp3 on 21 January 2012 at 7:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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