Tuesday, March 22, 2005

podcast #3, dictionaries

podcast #3, dictionaries

(link to the podcast)

Dictionaries:

Oxford Color Spanish Dictionary
paperback, 100,000 words, phrases and translations
marking system, circle, solid circle, highlight, flashcard
ISBN 0-19-864562-7

Larousse Diccionario Educativo
recommended by 2 immersion language schools
ISBN 970-22-0696-0
example sentences, regional usage, synonyms
spanish-spanish

The Pop-up Oxford Spanish Dictionary
240,000 translations; 170,000 words, phrases and definitions
only available for Windows; anyone know of a Mac equivalent?
can load English-Spanish or Spanish only dictionaries
other languages available with same iFinger engine

Franklin electronic handheld translator
model DBE-1450, uses Merriam Webster
can enter any form of a verb
translates both directions
stores looked up words in a word list
has conjugations (not easy, but they are there)
also has word games
includes a calculator for changing temperatures, quantities, weights, etc.

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or email me at: learningspanish@gmail.com

6 Comments:

At 9/05/2005 12:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

1) Franklin is a great buy.

2) The Firefly Spanish/English Visual Dictionary contains thousands of pictures of things we need to know. (Like all the parts of a car, food, vegatables, people, etc)

3) Wordreference.com: Great free online dictionary.

4) http://buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm "DICCIONARIO DE LA LENGUA ESPAÑOLA
". This website is the Royal Acadamy of Spanish and therefore as far as Spain is concerned, the ultimate spanish dictionary. It is entirely in Spanish, but contains lots of useful information.

--Chris

 
At 11/17/2005 9:41 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well done on a nice blog Rich. I was looking for information on spanish lesson plans and came across your post podcast #3, dictionaries - not quite what I was looking for related to spanish lesson plans but interesting all the same!

 
At 8/13/2006 8:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have not totally had the time to use it as much as I would like, but I bought a dictionary called Mi Primer Diccionario Everest after browsing through several dictionaries in a Spanish language bookstore when I was in NYC. It is a children's dictionary with some pictures, large text, and 1100 words. It is Spanish-Spanish and you can read through the dictionary and learn by doing that. Even if you know what the word means, you learn words by reading the definition in Spanish. Plus if you don't know the word and don't understand the definition, the pictures can help! Good for intermediate level or high beginner students.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8424112059/sr=8-6/qid=1155523030/ref=sr_1_6/104-7075204-4718314?ie=UTF8

--Nick S.

 
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At 5/22/2011 9:03 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Look no further than Spanish Dict, and it's FREE - a great tool with examples in context and also acts like a kind of thesaurus - check out http://www.topspanishtips.weebly.com

 
At 6/21/2011 2:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Learning Spanish online will be a breeze with this materials at hand.

 

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