Dictionaries with sound

Did you know that, in Mandarin Chinese, the word for pistachio (kāi xīn guǒ) means “happy fruit” because the open shells of a pistachio look like a smile? Discover fun facts like this while learning Mandarin with two new picture dictionaries from Rosetta Stone! Like our popular Spanish and French picture dictionaries, these dictionaries help readers grasp key vocabulary through colorful visuals. Whether you want to practice essential travel phrases on your own, or sound out Mandarin words together with your child, these books are made for language learners of any age!Rosetta Stone’s Mandarin picture dictionaries are available to order now in both Simplified and Traditional characters. Take a peek at what’s inside:Over 500 words and phrasesCreated by the leading expert in language learning, Rosetta Stone picture dictionaries are designed to be approachable and encouraging to all learners. Each Mandarin dictionary contains over 500 common words and useful phrases, along with vibrant matching illustrations. Readers will find sections on numbers, colors, food, animals, and even items they would find at home, so they can use their new vocabulary in everyday life!Fun and helpful audioWith Rosetta Stone picture dictionaries, there’s more than printed words and pictures to help you grow your language skills. You’ll find practical and entertaining audio elements too, right alongside the text. Simply scan the QR code printed on the page to hear each word and phrase, pronounced by a native Mandarin speaker. With this tool, you can practice an authentic accent right from the start!As a fun

The process of using a dictionary begins with finding the word itself. In a print dictionary, guide words indicate the content that appears on each page. Guide words are included at the top of almost every dictionary page. The first guide word is the first entry on the page, and the second guide word is the last entry on the page.The pronunciation, which follows the entry word, is shown by the use of accent marks, phonetic symbols, and diacritical marks.-Accent marks show the syllables of a word that are said more forcefully than other syllables.-Phonetic symbols represent specific sounds.-Diacritical marks are special symbols placed above the letters to show how they sound. A pronunciation key explains the sounds represented by these symbols.These labels indicate how the entry word is used in a sentence—as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, and so on. Some words can function as more than one part of speech. Most dictionaries have separate entries for each part of speech, although some may use a single entry.For example, the word deliberate can be either a verb or an adjective. Most dictionaries would include two entries, similar to this:deliberate (verb) - to think carefully about something /dǝ LIB ǝ rayt /deliberate (adjective) - done with willful intent / dǝ LIB ǝ rǝt /Some dictionaries show plural forms of nouns, tenses of verbs, or the comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs.Etymology is the history of a word. Placement of etymology information within a dictionary entry can vary. Many print dictionaries list etymology before definitions, while online dictionaries tend to present definitions first.In most dictionaries, abbreviations such as Sp - Spanish, Ger - German, and Lat - Latin, as well as symbols such as "Etymology ExampleIf you look up the word encounter, the dictionary might list this information about the word's etymology:c. 1300, Late Lat. incontra, toward, against, from Lat. in, in + contra, against]This means that encounter comes from a Late Latin word, incontra, meaning "toward, against." The Late Latin word came from the Latin words in-, meaning "in," and contra, meaning "against." The word was first used in

Spanish-Catalan and Catalan-Spanish Slovoed dictionary software for Windows lets you easily find appropriate translation of any word and express yourself most precisely thanks to high translation rate, detailed and up-to-date dictionary bases and easy-to-use interface. Slovoed electronic dictionaries are developed to satisfy the most fastidious users, for both language professionals and learners, business and private users.____________Dictionary database is powered by Larousse Editorial, S.L.Spanish-Catalan dictionary contains 44,504 entriesCatalan-Spanish dictionary contains 47,673 entriesSpanish sound module contains about 40,000 words____________Outstanding features of Slovoed dictionary:• Read e-mails, documents and web-pages from your PC and get Word Translations without leaving your active application by hovering mouse over a word. So you do not need to waste time opening a program;• Find the translation of the word in any grammatical form with help of built-in Morphology Module for English, Russian, French and Spanish;• Listen to correct word pronunciation using built-in Sound Modules, containing pre-recorded voice of English, Spanish, German, French, Russian and Italian native speakers;• Learn foreign languages with immediate grammar reference for any word in the dictionary (English irregular verbs, German verbs, grammatical forms, etc.);• Enrich your vocabulary choosing unknown words with bookmarks or using search history;• Study the language in the easiest and most effective way using Slovoed dictionary. Check yourself with the words you have added to Flash Cards from the dictionary;• Similar Words function helps you to find a word even if you do not remember its spelling.• Keep your Slovoed dictionary always up-to-date. New Slovoed Online Update feature lets you know of updated dictionary versions available for download;• Discover new dictionaries and download it directly to your device with the built-in Online dictionary catalog;• IntraArticle Search. Thanks to a new feature of the application, you can search for words right in the dictionary article.• Enter the words on your native language easier using on-screen Virtual Keyboard for many languages;• Find the word even if you don’t know its exact spelling using wildcards search ("*", "?", etc.);• Find the list of irregular verbs for English and German dictionaries;• Due to our Language identifier, you no more need to change the translation direction each time you input words. Translation direction will be chosen automatically, it depends on language input;• Enlarge Slovoed electronic dictionary word database by creating your own dictionaries;• Full text search for words and word combinations in articles, titles, entries and usage examples.

Developer’s DescriptionTranslate English words into Hungarian words and vice versa.English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English Slovoed dictionary software for Windows lets you easily find appropriate translation of any word and express yourself most precisely thanks to high translation rate, detailed and up-to-date dictionary bases and easy-to-use interface. Slovoed electronic dictionaries are developed to satisfy the most fastidious users, for both language professionals and learners, business and private users.English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English Slovoed electronic dictionary for Windows continues the popular series of MultiLex translation software for PC, which has been top ranked by majority of professional linguists and translators as well as first-rate companies: Mercedes-Benz, Brithish-American Tobacco, IKEA, Deloitte, LUKOIL, Gazprom, Beeline, MTS and many others.Read, learn, work and communicate with English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English Slovoed translation software on your desktop computer. Most of the electronic dictionaries contain detailed word translations with usage and sound samples, transcription, grammatical information and color markup to satisfy all your needs.

An electronic edition of the Merriam-Webster English Explanatory dictionary4.1 Developer:Paragon SoftwareMerriam-Webster is the America's leading language reference publisher and now you can have their series of high quality English dictionaries in an electronic program on your desktop. Merriam-Webster's English Explanatory Dictionary will provide you with a quick and easy method of finding any word and its correct grammatical form with its built-in Morphology Module. If you're learning the English language, its sound modules will allow you to hear the correct word pronunciation, pre-recorded by native speakers.Your software dictionary is powered by Paragon Software's SlovoEd engine technology bringing you a powerful solution to your writing reference needs. The program interface is presented to you in an easy to use Windows style and features a search box you can use to search for titles, entries and word usage samples easily and quickly. A search history is also featured to display the words that you have recently searched. The interface is user-friendly and you can change it to suit the view, color and sizes you prefer, as well as change the fonts and font sizes. You can also create your own dictionaries and add new entries with translations, transcriptions and usage samples, if you wish.LS Senioreditor Luis Sanchez Editor rating:ProsEasy to use interfaceTags

Developer’s DescriptionTranslate Russian words into French words.Slovoed Deluxe French-Russian-French dictionary includes the fullest and most detailed translation articles with usage and sound samples, synonyms and antonyms, references, transcriptions and other important information.Outstanding features of Slovoed dictionary:NEW!!! Enhanced pop-up translation. Translate unknown words while reading e-mails, web-pages, e-book etc by hovering a mouse over a word. You do not need to waste time switching between several applications with Slovoed dictionary pop-up translation - it is now supported by Safari, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome;Find the translation of the word in any grammatical form with help of built-in Morphology Module for English, Russian, French and Spanish;Listen correct word pronunciation using built-in Sound Modules, containing pre-recorded voice of English, Spanish, German, French, Russian and Italian native speakers;Learn foreign languages with immediate grammar reference for any word in the dictionary (English irregular verbs, German verbs, grammatical forms, etc.);Enrich your vocabulary choosing unknown words with bookmarks or using search history;Check yourself with the words you have added to Flash Cards from the dictionary;New!!! Due to our Language identifier, you no more need to change the translation direction each time you input words. Translation direction will be chosen automatically, it depends on language input;New!!! IntraArticle Search. You can search for words right in the dictionary article;New!!! Enlarge Slovoed electronic dictionary word database by creating your own dictionaries;Similar Words function helps you to find a word even if you do not remember its spelling;Enter the words on your native language easier using on-screen Virtual Keyboard for many languages;Find the word even if you don't know its exact spelling using wildcards search ("*", "?", etc.);Slovoed Online Update feature lets you know of updated dictionary versions available for download;Discover new dictionaries and download it directly to your device with the built-in Online dictionary catalog;This version of the dictionary