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Though I majored in French and English in college, I somehow made it through my studies with only a pocket-size French English Dictionary from the early 1980s. I had no idea how impressive a dictionary could be until I began teaching and purchased a two-and-a-half-inch thick, five pound French Unabridged Dictionary from Collins Robert for classroom use. When a translation question arose that I couldn't answer, the student who volunteered to be the daily fe du dictionnaire (dictionary fairy, with optional wand, ID tag, and tiara) would find the answer in that massive dictionary. But ever since I downloaded the Collins-Robert Concise French Dictionary App as a stay-at-home mama, I've been amazed at how useful a dictionary app can be.
1. Convenience: With your smart phone near you most of the day, a dictionary app is within reach when you find gaps in your language knowledge or when your memory fails you. It's also a smart option for traveling because it's already downloaded and shouldn't need an internet connection to function.
2. Speed: It's actually much faster to type a word (or the beginning of a word) than to find the word in a hardbound dictionary. A good app will also provide relevant suggestions if you misspell or mistype a word.
My favorite French English dictionaries are those published by Collins Robert; I love them simply for their sheer breadth and depth of content as well as their clear organization. Collins Robert provides a free online French English Dictionary here, though it's quite basic in comparison to their Concise Dictionary app. (Ultralingua provides the software for their apps while Collins Robert provides the content.)
Because this app was priced at $19.99 several years ago, I might never have purchased it if I hadn't received an iTunes gift card one Christmas. However, having used the app for four years now, I believe it is still worth the price (it currently costs $16.99).
A note for Americans: The English content of the Collins Robert dictionary (and many other French dictionaries) is based on British English, so as an American I occasionally find certain American words are not listed. Nonetheless, the folks at Collins Robert do make an effort to include a fair amount of American words and idioms, so I'm still convinced this is the most complete and user-friendly French English dictionary app available.
Disclaimer: I did not receive any incentive from Harper Collins Publishers or Ultralingua to review these products. I do receive a small payback from Amazon.com if you choose to purchase any books via my links.
This volume contains articles and reports on bilingual dictionaries and their use with a view to foreign language learning, translation teaching and dictionary use. The authors present different theoretical and practical perspectives, with different focal points, thus giving an overview of the current status of and contemporary trends in contrastive lexicography with regard to the learning of foreign languages, the teaching of translation and the use of bilingual dictionaries for these purposes. The volume offers the latest insights into online lexicography, new trends, as well as suggestions for new research.
With the exception of two, all the articles are in German. The introductory article, written by the three editors, serves to set the scene for the entire volume: bilingual dictionaries are once again gaining in importance, because they are crucial in the learning of foreign languages and translation teaching. Looking for the most adequate equivalent, learners do not always have the knowledge and skills to perform the correct user actions. As Schafroth (p. 83) notes, students without training in dictionary use often select the first available translation equivalent, without taking into account the context. This problem reminds me of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel, Everything is Illuminated (2002), where the character of the Ukrainian tour guide/translator always selects the contextually most absurd and incorrect equivalents when he speaks his self-taught English. Learners seem to ignore the available metalinguistic remarks - and even the grammatical information - and fail to orientate themselves towards the structures of the dictionary articles. More and more frequently, learners use online dictionaries and glossaries, which often do not even include such metalinguistic information, exacerbating the problem. Many learners do not acquaint themselves with the user's guidelines. For all these reasons, it is imperative to once again look at the didactics of dictionary use, and incorporate its principles into the didactics of foreign language learning and translation teaching.
Only very few empirical studies are available within this field. In order to deal with this hiatus, this volume concentrates on three important aspects. Part I deals with "Valency, Constructions and Collocations in Bilingual Lexicography", to establish better links between contrastive linguistics and lexicographical practice. Part II is titled "Dictionaries and their Users". Contributors to this section look at bilingual dictionaries as learner's dictionaries, presenting examples of dictionary projects and offering suggestions for improved learning. Part III contains reports on several lexicographical projects, which are planned to offer more opportunities for learners.
Zsuzsanna Fbin's contribution deals with the description of the three word classes (verb, adjective and noun) in general bilingual dictionaries between Italian and Hungarian, and bilingual valency dictionaries with Italian and German as language pair. Fbin points out that as yet no Hungarian valency dictionary in the strict sense of the word has been published. After a short introduction of three comprehensive Italian-Hungarian general dictionaries and three Italian-German valency dictionaries (treating verbs, adjectives and nouns), she focuses on the analyses of the verb fidare (=to trust), the adjective abile (=skillful) and the noun condanna (=condemnation). By taking a look at the methods used by the authors of valency dictionaries, Fbin makes recommendations for an adequate and more user-friendly presentation of valency in general Italian-Hungarian dictionaries. For example, she recommends that lexicographers should include sentence-like structures in the examples; semantic valency should be presented in a more comprehensive and more accurate way, to avoid confusing learners. Lexicographers of bilingual dictionaries should take note of what has been done in valency research. Fbin concludes her contribution with examples of what she considers good examples of valency in a potential Italian-Hungarian bilingual dictionary for learners, using fidare, abile and condanna.
In her contribution, Maria Teresa Bianco discusses the German verb werden (=to become) and its synonyms in Italian, and how different grammar books assign this verb to different verb classes. She asserts that this verb is only very seldom described as a main verb in textbooks - usually it has the status of an auxiliary verb. Moreover, it is not always clear whether the verb werden is considered a main verb or an auxiliary verb. Bianco lists examples from several monolingual German dictionaries and bilingual Italian-German dictionaries which may or may not have adequate information on the usage of the verb werden, and then poses some questions, such as whether werden is monovalent, and if so, whether it is an auxiliary verb or a main verb; and whether it is only used in fixed expressions. She also asks what equivalents are available in Italian in case of a monovalent verb werden, and what a user-friendly entry should look like in a dictionary. According to Bianco, the Valenzwrterbuch Deutscher Verben (=VALBU) and its electronic version (=E-VALBU) could serve as examples. These publications are based on research into the German corpus; they list many meanings of the verb werden and give ample usage examples.
Klaus Fischer deals with the usefulness of presenting valency and information on the construction of phrases in learner's dictionaries for second language learning, in order to establish how helpful existing dictionaries are. He maintains that valency dictionaries often define their target audience as linguists, grammarians, lexicographers, lecturers and authors of text books. Some of them state that they are also meant to be used by advanced foreign learners when they need help in the construction of phrases. But it seems that there are no resources available to foreign learners with little or no linguistic knowledge. Furthermore, almost all the bilingual valency dictionaries that Fischer took into account were conceptualised from the perspective of German valency, and not from the perspective of the other language in the pair.1 This, of course, creates problems for foreign learners, who proceed from the point of view of their own language. Fischer concludes his contribution with presenting a model for an English learner's dictionary of German, based on valency principles and a didactic selection of valency information, which could also be used by learners who do not have extensive linguistic backgrounds. This includes the simple presentation of example sentences and narrative comments.
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