Any recommendations for a Spanish-English dictionary, hardback and online? Thread poster: Kate Warren
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Kate Warren 
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I am just starting out as a freelance translator and would like to buy a new Spanish-English dictionary or hear about good online resources. (I still have a very old Collins dictionary).
With thanks.
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TOPIC STARTER | Many thanks Andras | Jun 7, 2008 |
Much appreciated!
All the best
Kate
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It's a bit of a shame that a Hungarian guy is the only one to post in a very relevant thread like this in what may be the most frequent language combo... for two days!
This place is as good as dead sometimes, until one of the 10 knowledgeable regular poster pop in.
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www.spanishdict.com is another one you could try.
I agree, it is a bit sad that no one else has answered this since it's really not a difficult question.
| | | | Rod Brookes
Spain
Local time: 04:52
Member (2008)
Spanish to English
| for what it's worth | Jun 10, 2008 |
oops, fair enough, I was holding back because I thought other more experienced translators would come in with more interesting answers OK for what it's worth:
I can recommend buying both the Collins and the large Oxford bilingual dictionaries - they don't simply duplicate each other. The Collins I prefer but the Oxford seems to be better for Latin American Spanish usage. Secondly, although you haven't asked, I think ... See more oops, fair enough, I was holding back because I thought other more experienced translators would come in with more interesting answers OK for what it's worth:
I can recommend buying both the Collins and the large Oxford bilingual dictionaries - they don't simply duplicate each other. The Collins I prefer but the Oxford seems to be better for Latin American Spanish usage. Secondly, although you haven't asked, I think at least one monolingual Spanish dictionary is also essential. I have the single volume RAE edition - I will get the two volume set in time but it is very expensive. The María Moliner Diccionario de Uso I also like using - although that's another one that's going to have to wait until I'm a bit richer!
Specialist dictionaries I tend to acquire secondhand as I come across them - you can't have enough specialist dictionaries in my opinion. The only piece of advice I would give is beware technical dictionaries that promise to cover too many specialisms and in the attempt fail to be sufficiently comprehensive in any of them - I bought one such expensive Spanish published dictionary new and it's proved to be more or less completely useless.
I'd certainly like others' recommendations for specialist Spanish/Spanish-English dictionaries myself. And is it just me, or are such dictionaries not being updated as regularly as they used to be?
Online dictionaries I mainly use wordreference - as much because I find the links to where words have appeared in their forum discussions particularly useful. It also links to the RAE dictionary online.
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| | | | | For what it's worth again | Jun 10, 2008 |
Right, I've been shamed into replying. These are the Spanish-English dictionaries I use most often:
Very ancient Appleton's "New" by Arturo Cuyás, now falling to pieces, which my father gave me decades ago. It's useful for historical and obscure stuff, and is good for Latin American expressions.
Also, more up to date, Larousse Gran Diccionario.
A very good specialist dictionary for financial material is Coopers & Lybrand's Diccionario de Informes Financieros.
I also occa... See more Right, I've been shamed into replying. These are the Spanish-English dictionaries I use most often:
Very ancient Appleton's "New" by Arturo Cuyás, now falling to pieces, which my father gave me decades ago. It's useful for historical and obscure stuff, and is good for Latin American expressions.
Also, more up to date, Larousse Gran Diccionario.
A very good specialist dictionary for financial material is Coopers & Lybrand's Diccionario de Informes Financieros.
I also occasionally find Hans Klaus's Terminología Bancaria useful.
Best wishes,
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| | | | Kate Warren
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TOPIC STARTER
Thanks everybody - always good to get recommendations based on personal experience!
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K Donnelly
United States
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| Another online dictionary | Jun 12, 2008 |
I have found the following online dictionary to be useful:
http://www.tomisimo.org/
Good luck in your new career!
| | | | Kate Warren
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:52
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TOPIC STARTER |
I've used tons of them but always come back to Arturo Cuyas, which was given to me by my mother's best friend (a translator for the Pellas coffee interests) when I was a boy. Mine is the 1961 edition - I'm dating myself, I know. The original was from 1903, based on Velasquez from the mid-19th century. I also use the Real Academia's Spanish and Webster's English.
Idiomatic youth slang varies widely and wildly as you well know. To try to keep up I always buy the colloquial dictionar... See more I've used tons of them but always come back to Arturo Cuyas, which was given to me by my mother's best friend (a translator for the Pellas coffee interests) when I was a boy. Mine is the 1961 edition - I'm dating myself, I know. The original was from 1903, based on Velasquez from the mid-19th century. I also use the Real Academia's Spanish and Webster's English.
Idiomatic youth slang varies widely and wildly as you well know. To try to keep up I always buy the colloquial dictionaries whenever I travel, for example "Diccionario de colombiano actual - Palabras y expresiones para padres cuarentones, extranjeros despistados y cerebros fugados," by Francisco Celis Alban, 2005, Intermedio, Bogota. The 20-something daughter of a Colombian friend of mine was impressed with my vocabulary as a result of this purchase!
I was recently in Panama with my little surfer brother and his Mexican girlfriend. The girlfriend kept telling me "cholo" means gang member in her modern Mexican idiom, a usage unfamiliar to poor old me. Then the pilot of our plane told an older Kuna Indian man to move a package in the doorway of our Twin Otter, beginning his instruction by saying "Cholo!" matching perfectly Cuyas' definition: "a term applied by whites to Indians and servants ..." Not PC but accurate in the Comarca Kuna Yala in September 2008.
Cuyas was also pretty helpful with the old Castillian, when I read don Quijote, back in the day ...
You'll end up with an eclectic collection of your own, I'm sure.
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