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| geranio99 Heptaglot Newbie Spain Joined 6818 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Catalan*, Spanish, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, Romanian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 9 13 April 2006 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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How often do you use monolingual dictionaries? How useful are they for you when you learn a language? Which are seen as the best for your target language?
Please, add a monolingual dictionary you know for your target language and help me compile a comprehensive list. Here next I include some for less commonly taught languages, I have excluded monolingual dictionaries for most commonly taught languages, such as English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, which I am sure most of you will already know: Portuguese: Novo dicionrio Aurelio da lngua portuguesa Michaelis: Moderno Dicionrio da Lngua Portuguesa Dicionrio Houaiss da Lngua Portuguesa Hungarian: Magyar rtelmezo kzisztr CD-ROM (The Concise Dictionary of the Hungarian Language CD-ROM Dutch: Grote Van Dale Russian: Ozhogov's and Shvedova's Dictionary Tolkovy Slovar Russkogo Yazyka (Monolingual Russian Dictionary) Korean: Minjungs Gugeo Dae Sajeon Greek: Lexiko tis Neas Ellinikis Glossas Indonesian: Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia by ALWI, HASAN (ED) Malay: Kamus Bahasa Melayu Danish: Gyldendal's Red Dictionary: Dansk-Dansk Ordbog Afrikaans: HAT (Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) (FF Odendal & RH Gouws). Thanks 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7170 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 9 14 April 2006 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
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Great minds must think alike! I just posted another thread about the Vanity of monolingual dictionaries.
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| geranio99 Heptaglot Newbie Spain Joined 6818 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Catalan*, Spanish, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, Romanian Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 9 14 April 2006 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
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I read the article and I totally agree with Linas.
I think they can be useful when you already know something of the language. Definitely not for beginners. You can also try monolingual dictionaries for kids or for foreigners, because the explanations are in a simpler language. Whenever I look for a word in it, I can usually understand the meaning after reading the definition. I believe it's a very good way for a student to acquire more vocabulary in a faster way by reading the definitions of words, he can often gain a better knowledge on expressing himself in different ways (such as defining a word he suddenly can't remember in a conversation). I agree that it's not suitable for beginners, but one can start playing with them at, let's say, an early intermediate level. Ah! I remember now another monolingual dictionary, this time for Catalan: Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana de la Enciclopdia Catalana. Please help me complete the list and add a monolingual dictionary for your target language. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geranio99 Heptaglot Newbie Spain Joined 6818 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Catalan*, Spanish, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, GermanC2, Italian, Romanian Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 9 14 April 2006 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
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Here is another one for Icelandic with simpler language aimed at students and general public:
rni Bvarsson. 1983. slensk orabk handa sklum og almenningi. 2. tg. Reykjavk: Bkatgfa Menningarsjs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6999 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 9 14 April 2006 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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Spanish: El Pequeo Larousse Ilustrado 2006.
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| Zetko86 Heptaglot Newbie Italy Joined 4303 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Slovenian, Italian*, English, Serbo-Croatian, FrenchB1, GermanB2, Russian Studies: Japanese, Hungarian | Message 6 of 9 30 June 2015 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
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Slovene:
Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika (also avaitable online: http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/sskj.html) Croatian: Vladimir Anić - Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4965 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 7 of 9 02 July 2015 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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I love monolingual dictionaries, especially online ones that are freely accessible on the Internet. Here is a list
of my favorites. SPANISH http://www.wordreference.com/es/ (just make sure it's set on "Español: definición") Real Academia Española (they also have an app, although I haven't used it much) The Apple dictionaries downloadable on my iPhone/iPad are also very good, and then I can look up Spanish words with one easy click when I'm reading even when I don't have internet access. POLISH Wielki słownik języka polskiego Edited by Amerykanka on 02 July 2015 at 4:40pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6950 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 9 06 July 2015 at 3:05pm | IP Logged |
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- Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (Czech)
- Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (Estonian) - Kielitoimiston yleiskielen sanakirja (Finnish) - Krátky slovník slovenského jazyka atd. (Slovak) - Büyük Türkçe Sözlük (Turkish) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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