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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 7 10 November 2013 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I'm studying French, I know which online dictionaries to use for which kinds of tasks—Wiktionary is an excellent monolingual dictionary for example, WordReference is good if I need an English translation, and Linguee is good for puzzling out weird turns of phrase.
But I don't know what online dictionaries work well for Spanish. So I'd like to pick everybody's brains a bit: 1. What's your favorite online Spanish->English dictionary? Is WordReference good? 2. What's your favorite online monolingual Spanish dictionary? 3. Is Linguee's English<->Spanish site any good? 4. Are there any other dictionary sites you use on a regular basis? Thank you very much for your suggestions! (I'm curious because I'm working on some SRS-related tools, and I want to support Spanish out of the box. Also, one of these days, I'm probably going to start poking at Spanish a bit. The Assimil course is sitting on the shelf, taunting me.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 7 10 November 2013 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd been going to suggest Wordreference, but I see that's on your radar. I used to use it
a lot when I was active in Spanish, including the forums. I don't know if there are any better ones. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4324 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 3 of 7 10 November 2013 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, Emk.
1) Actually, my favourite EN-ES dictionary is WordReference.com. You can choose between their own dictionary or Collins in that site. The forums are also very good. 2) rae.es. That's the official Spanish dictionary, made by the Real Academia Española, the organization that regulates the language. 3) I love Linguee in Spanish! :P It displays many accurate results almost always. Good luck! Edited by nicozerpa on 10 November 2013 at 10:27pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4324 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 4 of 7 10 November 2013 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||
A little question: how old is that Assimil book? I'm asking it because Spanish spelling rules have changed a bit in recent years, and maybe you'll have to pay attention to that. I'm currently learning German using an Assimil course from the 90's, but there was a spelling reform later and I had to "relearn" some words. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5318 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 7 11 November 2013 at 12:38am | IP Logged | ||
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In addition to the sites already mentioned, you can also check out:
PONS Spanish-English Dictionary (requires Adblock Plus or similar ad blocker) Collins Spanish-English Dictionary (ad blocker strongly recommended, but not necessary) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 6 of 7 11 November 2013 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Diccionario integral del español de la Argentina (2009)>
http://www.clarin.com/diccionario Diccionario del español de México (2005)> http://dem.colmex.mx/ These two give a more accurate picture of Argentine Spanish and Mexican Spanish than the Madrid-made RAE dictionary. Edited by Medulin on 11 November 2013 at 2:34am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 7 of 7 11 November 2013 at 3:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I like Spanishdict.com
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