osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 1 of 13 21 October 2013 at 8:25pm | IP Logged |
Hi all- I'm surprised I didn't find anything by searching through the archives, but if
I did overlook something, feel free to point me there.
I'm looking for Portuguese-English bidirectional dictionaries. I'm studying the
Brazilian variant and looking specifically for the following formats, but I'd certainly
welcome other suggestions:
-Online (currently using www.portuguesedictionary.net)
-Paper beginner's dictionary
-Android app
-Kindle dictionary
Any and all suggestions would be extremely helpful!
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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 2 of 13 21 October 2013 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
I don't use a bilingual dictionary. I do find Linguee very helpful. It's not a dictionary per se, but it does give English equivalents and also bilingual example sentences.
Hopefully someone else can help you out with the rest.
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4666 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 3 of 13 17 November 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
Collins Portuguese Dictionary is available here:
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-portuguese/
You can buy it as an application too (Collins Portuguese),
a better one (Michaelis English Portuguese) is available as an Android application as well at Google play Store.
Edited by Medulin on 17 November 2013 at 2:11pm
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nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4324 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German
| Message 4 of 13 17 November 2013 at 2:26pm | IP Logged |
I use WordReference.com, there is also a free Android app on Play Store.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 5 of 13 17 November 2013 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
I have the Oxford colour dictionary, I liked it a lot when I used it. It has the Brazilian pronunciation in IPA.
As both are Romance languages, I also recommend you to get a Portuguese-French dictionary (if your info is up-to-date and you're still learning French). I find my Spanish-Italian dictionary very helpful :)
When I'm at comp I use wiktionary or googleimages. The English wiktionary doesn't have many words (or has only Spanish entries for them), so check the Portuguese one too (and French might also be a good idea?).
BTW if you use firefox, get the "add to search bar" and "second search" add-ons to go to your preferred dictionaries directly from the search bar. "Second search" is needed when you want to change the search engine used for this particular search, without having to change it back to the default one.
Edited by Serpent on 17 November 2013 at 3:02pm
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5318 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 6 of 13 17 November 2013 at 3:28pm | IP Logged |
osoymar wrote:
I'm looking for Portuguese-English bidirectional dictionaries.
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All Kindles and Kindle apps come with the 2011 edition of the monolingual Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
PONS also offers bilingual Portugese-English online dictionaries.
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osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4734 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 13 19 November 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
Thanks all for the great references! I had to miss a few days of Assimil and this will
help me to get back on the horse.
For what it's worth, I'm not studying French, but for the life of me I can't figure out
how to change that part of my profile.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 8 of 13 19 November 2013 at 11:43am | IP Logged |
Click on French (in your profile or below your username) and click Edit at the bottom. Change your study status to "not studying".
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