Download [PORTABLE] French Dictionary For Ipad
Angelo Dearring
Studies have shown that image association increases retention. The dictionary includes thousands of offline images for menu items, plants, animals, etc. When an image is available an icon will appear below usage examples.
The Collins-Le Robert is a standard even in the print dictionary domain. It contains more entries than most of the other French dictionary apps out there, although the Android version seems to have more entries than the iOS one.
While the first two French dictionary apps on this list are cornerstones, Ascendo seems to be the young upstart. Available for iOS and Android, this popular app has great reviews and its features and interface seem to be genuinely helpful.
Most of the dictionary apps on our list include audio so that you can hear how a word sounds. But if you want to take your French oral and aural skills to another level, you should think about downloading or using a French pronunciation dictionary.
Aside from the dictionary entries, it even includes example resumes and emails, plus important documents like rent contracts and bank statements, which are useful if you live in a French-speaking country.
Larousse is a classic name in the French dictionary business. This app is great for learners of all levels, particularly those who would like to focus on their reading and writing because it provides access to a plethora of proverbs, sayings and idiomatic expressions.
Use this free on-line English-French dictionary to find French translations of a word.Enter the English word above that you would like to look up, or click on one of thecommon lookups below to find the French translations of some common Englishwords. You may also wish to check out the site'sFrench phrases section. Alternatively, if you have an iPhone or iPad, then seethis site's accompanying French Vocab games appfor iPhone.
Go to itunes.com/apps/PlecoChineseDictionary to instantly download the free basic version of Pleco for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad; you can add on more advanced features / dictionaries from right inside of the app, but the basic version is an excellent little dictionary in its own right (and includes the same wonderful search engine as our more advanced software).
Colours in French game: learn the most common colour words in the French language with a fun multiple-choice game that uses simple repetition for memorizing vocabulary. Use our French picture dictionary: colours for a visual single-page representation of these French adjectives, or click-thru our French flashcards: colours for memorizing these words. All exercises include French audio.
French fruit and vegetables game: 15 of the most useful words for fruit and vegetables in a simple French game with audio. Learn French language basics for communicating with the local grocer. For elementary-level language students and kids learning French. Our French picture dictionary: fruit and vegetables, with audio and quirky fruit animations, and our French flashcards: fruit and vegetables serve as tools for teaching these fundamental French words to kids.
French food and drinks game: some of the most common names of food and drinks items in a simple and colourful French game designed for kids or school students and children. You'll now be able to order a coffee on the Champs-Élysées in la langue française. Click-thru our interactive French flashcards: food for learning this vocabulary prior to playing the practice quiz. Our French food & drinks visual dictionary displays these words on a single webpage, which includes audio buttons.
Animals in French game: 17 names of animals in a fun online quiz that was created with kids in mind. Includes the indefinite article (un, une) for learning the noun's gender (masculine/feminine). The student can learn these words for animals with our French picture dictionary: animals, an ideal visual chart for younger students, or by using the French flashcards: animals for drilling this vocabulary word by word.
French furniture quiz: study the words for everyday household furniture items in the French language from a word list with audio, and then test your retention of this new vocabulary with an online practice quiz. For a classroom teaching aid for younger children, use our picture dictionary: furniture for introducing this new vocabulary. Alternately, try our French flashcards: furniture for learning these names of household items.
Tell the time in French: learn to ask and tell the time in French with an illustrated dictionary, flashcard set and a fun online quiz. An ideal exercise after learning the French numbers. With audio options for listening practice and text-only for reading.
Hello everyone, I have a french keyboard installed on my iphone 7. However, I do not know how to write the special french characters mentioned in the subject line. The only french character that I see there is é. However, I have no idea how to write other accented french characters on my iphone 7. I am totally blind using voiceover. Thank you for your response. Zdenek
Coincidentally I just resolved to try reading a German novel.
I heartily second your recommendation to get a good dictionary. At first I picked up a free dictionary. It couldn't handle conjugated verbs etc so the frustration made it worse that useless. I picked up a good dictionary for about $10 (Pons) and it makes all the difference. As a bonus, at times its articles seem nearly as interesting as the novel!
Greg,
I have been learning Spanish for about six months and have a real problem with recognising conjugations. I got the Collins dictionary on the basis that it dealt with this area only to find out later that it was limited to key verbs.
How would you suggest I get my head round this matter and progress?
thanks.
Hi Greg,
Cool post. I read Japanese and use a Japanese-Japanese dictionary when I find a word I don't know. That often leads to a deeper sense spelunk than would a Japanese-English lookup since I'll often find a word in the Japanese definition to drill down on and that reinforces the meaning matrix in my head.
I use the Daijirin (大辞林) Japanese dictionary app for my iOS device. It also lets me draw the character which helps reinforce the writing as well. Unfortunately, doesn't look like there's an easy lookup option from Kindle app to that app, but that's ok since I only lookup one word every 4-5 pages.
Nice to hear from you, Patrick. I agree that one should strive to reach the point of using the monolingual dictionary rather than the bilingual one. However, for a beginner, that's impractical because it takes too long. (I've tried it.)
With time, though, I find that I use the monolingual more and the bilingual less, and Kindle could do things in the future to make this easier. I'll discuss it in more detail in a future post.
Hello Greg,
Thanks for the article. As a matter of interest, what are the limitations you find with the Kindle touch (as compared to Paperwhite and Voyage)? I had got the impression that the main difference was the lack of a backlight, and maybe a slightly lesser screen quality.
On another tack, one of the problems for foreign language learners is the relative lack of Kindle-compatible translation-dictionaries. It's fine for Spanish, German and French and maybe Italian, but stray far from these, and you walk alone.
I'd really love to find a Welsh-English dictionary, for example.
Welsh is actually listed as one of Amazon's supported languages.
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That means there ought to be a monolingual dictionary for it. Bilingual dictionaries will be more of a challenge, especially since to work on the Kindle, they need to index all the word forms. Amazon does give instructions on how to create such a thing yourself, but you'd need to be a programmer and a linguist, to some degree.
Hi! Very interesting article. I also came here through Duolingo, when I got into a conversation about other resources, which led to talking about books.
Only problem is, I have a Kindle Fire and you say this can't be done on that. Do you happen to know if that's still true? Or how I can check before getting a novel and a dictionary and excited? :P
Illustrator has features for checking both spelling and hyphenation. The dictionary contains hundreds of thousands of words with standard syllable breaks. You can assign a language to an entire document or apply a language to selected text.
One of the great benefits of using ebooks for language learning is the ability to use custom dictionaries. Instead of having to search for each unknown word in a dictionary you can get instant translations while reading your book.
If you own a Kindle Paperwhite or Kindle Touch and have installed a dictionary (see here for instruction), you can translate words in the text just by tapping them. For other non-touch Kindle devices, you can simply move the cursor over the words.
Once you have downloaded the dictionary, we need to rename it so the Kindle app will recognize it. Change the filename from German-English.mobi to B003YL4LVQ_EBOK.azw so the app will recognize it.
Simply drag your dictionary into this folder. If you already have the German definitions dictionary installed, the program will tell you that the file already exists. You can either overwrite it or backup the standard dictionary somewhere before you drop your German-English dictionary into the folder.
If you want a French-English dictionary, the process is the same, except for the new file name in step 1. Here are the correct file names you need to enter before copying your dictionary to the device.
For instance, English may be your primary language, but if you're fluent in Spanish, you may read or write in that language sometimes too. In order to look up an unknown word in Spanish, you would highlight it, then choose "Look Up" from the contextual menu. If you don't have the Spanish language dictionary added in your settings, then you either won't get a definition or you will get one for the English version of the word, if the spelling is similar. Not very helpful.
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