Disquina Triglot Newbie Australia Joined 5985 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, Greek, French
| Message 1 of 5 17 April 2009 at 8:34am | IP Logged |
I have been using an excellent electronic dictionary for French, German and Latin, and I desperately want one for Modern Greek. I have found a few available, and most are amazingly expensive. Does anyone use one which they can recommend? All the ones I can find seem to say words and phrases out loud, which I do not need, I just want the dictionary function.
After spending years lugging around and flicking back and forth and back and forth through Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries during my study years, I was so glad to discover electronic dictionaries when I started learning German and French. I can not recommend them highly enough!
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Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5720 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese
| Message 2 of 5 17 April 2009 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/greek.php
Here's one that's free. They come in many languages, and I'm assuming this one's Modern Greek.
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Turbo Tetraglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5711 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, French, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, German, Japanese
| Message 3 of 5 17 April 2009 at 4:02pm | IP Logged |
Disquina,
So which electronic dictionary have you been using for French and German? I won't mind getting one if it's as good as you say.
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Disquina Triglot Newbie Australia Joined 5985 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: German, Greek, French
| Message 4 of 5 18 April 2009 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
Kyrie,
Thanks for the link, but I mean a handheld gadget which contains a dictionary.
Turbo,
I've been using the Ultralingua dictionary programme on my Palm PDA (http://www.ultralingua.com/), which was convenient because I already had the PDA. It might be an expensive option if you only want the PDA for the dictionaries, but I also use the flashcard programme ANKI on it (http://www.anki.com/) which I find fantastic, and much easier than carrying around hundreds of bits of cardboard. I also use the PDA for other non-language related stuff, such as my bibliographic database for my research.
I found Ultralingua to be the least messy dictionary programme, but having praised it so highly, I should say that I use the dictionaries almost exclusively for reading. I'm not sure if this makes any difference or not.
Disquina
Edited by Disquina on 18 April 2009 at 7:52am
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Turbo Tetraglot Newbie Hong Kong Joined 5711 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, French, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, German, Japanese
| Message 5 of 5 18 April 2009 at 9:10am | IP Logged |
Disquina,
Thanks for the info on Ultralingua. I used to own a Palm but not anymore. I learn from Ultralingua's website that their dictionaries are available on the iPhone platform as well. That's good because I am thinking of getting an iPhone soon.
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