Hi NgoNam! Nice to see you back!
I native bilingual friend of mine has told me more than once that Babylon is her favorite dictionary, although it's commercial, and as far as I know they don't offer a free on-line version. Some weeks ago I was trying a 'babylon gadget', available for personal google pages. That could be an option for those interested. Kind regards, Pablo On May 5, 10:37 am, "NgoNam" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to give you the recommendation on which database should be > installed. > 1. babylon-dictionary (highly recommended) > 2. picture dictionary (recommended) > 3. oxford collocation dictionary (highly recommended) > 4. online etymology dictionary (recommended) (give the original of words) > 5. encylopedia dictionaries (all the encyclopedia are useful) (recommended). > 6. GVT02 (Gerry Vocab teacher - which provides lots of examples) (highly > recommended). > 7. The phrase finder (recommended) > you could also try other dictionaries from the store. > > Best regards, > NgoNam > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: NgoNam > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 10:25 PM > Subject: Babylon - the greatest dictionary ever made ^_^ > > Hi everyone, > > While studying English, I discovered a dictionary that is quite useful and > convenient for English learners like us and I uploaded the whole dictionary > and its database to my online store. Its name is Babylon dictionary. I > believe that many of you have known and used it. This is the greatest > dictionary that I've ever known and used. > > The outstanding features of this dictionary are as follow: > - it can capture word in most application even in Firefox web brower (I > haven't found out any application that it cann't capture words) > - It provides you the defination in all installed dictionaries at the same > time so that you have an overview of the word. (especially picture > dictionary, collocation dictionary, encyclopedia dictionaries, thesaurus > dictionary). > - It also give you a huge number of examples and contexts (which is really > essential for us to remember a word). > - you could still download text to speech machine here to read long text in > encyclopedia dictionaries. (install callie-text2speech machine and register > it, then you can select the text, right click on the selected text and choose > "say it"). > - moreover, when you can't remember exactly the spelling of some words, you > could find out it easily by typing the word as you remember and it will give > you some suggestions. > > I think this is a great dictionary, I use it not only for looking up > definitions but also expanding my knowledge. > > Here is the link to download this dictionary. > > I attatch here the guide file and a sample picture of this dictionary. > > Hope you enjoy it ^^ > > Best regards, > NgoNam > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
