Category Archives: Dictionaries

My Prisma Dutch-English Dictionary – Oops

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Josh

The two Dutch language learning books I ordered arrived today; one’s a success, the other, not so much. The success is Assimil’s Dutch with Ease; I’ve little to say about it at this point, other than it looks as good … Continue reading →

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WordReference.com Now Has German and Russian Dictionaries

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Josh

WordReference.com used to have a German dictionary, but for whatever reason, they had to take it down. If I remember correctly, the publisher of the dictionary decided they didn’t want WordReference.com to offer it for free. I was pleasantly surprised, … Continue reading →

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A Free Online Monolingual German Dictionary

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Josh

I discovered a free, monolingual German dictionary online a few days ago. It’s part of Das Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jh., or DWDS. You can access the dictionary, as well as word information and the text corpus … Continue reading →

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Lingro.com – Awesome Online Dictionary

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Josh

I recently came across lingro.com through my ‘net travels, and while it could be improved in many areas, it’s already one of my favorite tools. While the site has a regular dictionary look-up, what I really love is the overlay … Continue reading →

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Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Josh

I discovered through the WordReference Forums today that the whole Grimms Deutsches Wörterbuch, which consists of 32 volumes, is available for free online. The project page for this is here; the direct link to the dictionary itself is here. The … Continue reading →

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The German equivalent to Merriam Webster?

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Josh

I was wondering about something: why have I never seen the equivalent of a German Merriam Webster online? For English, many commercial or professionally made dictionaries provide a free online version to anyone who wants to use it. The one … Continue reading →

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Google Translate now has a dictionary

Posted on June 23, 2007 by Josh

Google recently released their new dictionary feature on their translate page. While they offer fairly simple translations (and don’t give any contextual information about the translations – yet), something I thought was pretty cool was that they do offer a … Continue reading →

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