Hi. Do you have a very good knowledge of another language? Perhaps you have a 'first' language which you know to an excellent level and are trying to learn difficult subject words in English. Perhaps you know great English but want to keep up your knowledge and learn more of the other language? Ever been reading through something from, say, Physics or History and come across key (important) words which you need a bilingual dictionary for? Ever been a bit lazy and not bothered? The sad thing is that you're probably missing out on a lot. Here is a bit of advice to make sure you do learn those important technical words:
1. When doing an essay/project/or piece of coursework in Word or any other word processor, you can open an online dictionary through an Internet Browser (Explorer or Netscape etc)
2. If you are using a Browser, e.g. Explorer, to find Internet information, you can also open another copy of Explorer and get ready to open your dictionary through it.
3. You can switch between your work/ the web page and the dictionary, typing in a difficult word (or cutting and pasting using either the right mouse button or ctrl-c/ctrl-v) and seeing the word in another language.
Many of these dictionaries are so good these days (and getting better) that this is a great way to learn and get over those dictionary blues.
Selection of Online Dictionaries
Note that for some of these dictionaries you will have to download a free font to your computer.
Freedict offers the following languages: (click to go to the dictionary)
Afrikaans
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Latin
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Others:
Japanese-English or English-Japanese
Try this good selection of dictionaries, including Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Russian and Arabic at
This site has an excellent Arabic, English, French, Turkish, German multi-dictionary:
This site has a massive selection of translation and dictionary links for many languages:
To translate whole paragraphs/text into a European language, try this:
Try out this excellent facility to translate to and from many languages. (You can now have whole web pages translated too!):
For more dictionaries and translators, this is a good way in:
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