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Online dictionary recommendations - Portuguese and Spanish
Thread poster: Lucy Phillips
Lucy Phillips
Lucy Phillips  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:17
Spanish to English
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Mar 30, 2004

Hi everyone

I've recently upgraded my computer and lost all my favourites pages - including my online dictionaries!

I'd be grateful for any recommendations of good Portuguese and Spanish to English dictionaries online (my subject matter is generally historical/academic/cultural studies so I need fairly advanced dictionaries but not particularly technical ones).

Any good monolingual sites in those languages would also be useful.

Thanks in advanc... See more
Hi everyone

I've recently upgraded my computer and lost all my favourites pages - including my online dictionaries!

I'd be grateful for any recommendations of good Portuguese and Spanish to English dictionaries online (my subject matter is generally historical/academic/cultural studies so I need fairly advanced dictionaries but not particularly technical ones).

Any good monolingual sites in those languages would also be useful.

Thanks in advance!

Lucy ▲ Collapse
 
Ann Louise Rodríguez
Ann Louise Rodríguez
Denmark
Local time: 10:17
English to Danish
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My favourites :-) Mar 30, 2004

Hi there,

You might already have these?

http://www.diccionarios.com/index.phtml?redirect=true

http://tradu.scig.uniovi.es/sinon.html

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Hi there,

You might already have these?

http://www.diccionarios.com/index.phtml?redirect=true

http://tradu.scig.uniovi.es/sinon.html

http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

http://www.hyperdictionary.com

Good luck with your updated system,

Ann Louise ▲ Collapse
 
Margaret Schroeder
Margaret Schroeder  Identity Verified
Mexico
Local time: 02:17
Spanish to English
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More Spanish dictionaries and some corpuses, too Mar 30, 2004

RAE
On the menu bar down the left side of the page:
(1)Consulta Banco de datos - takes you to the corpuses (actual e histórico).
(2)Diccionario académico - to the dictionary.
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RAE
On the menu bar down the left side of the page:
(1)Consulta Banco de datos - takes you to the corpuses (actual e histórico).
(2)Diccionario académico - to the dictionary.

Collins

Slang and regional expressions from different countries.

Another corpus.

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Lia Fail (X)
Lia Fail (X)  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 10:17
Spanish to English
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basic ES & PT dic links Mar 30, 2004

http://www.wordreference.com

Access to various dictionaries inc. ES-EN Collins and DRAE.

As for PT, they used to be free - Porto Editora now Infopedia, & Michaelis - but not anymore. What's more I paid a sub to Porto Editora, and it seems to be worse than when it was free, it is totally inflexible in terms of searches (one word, must be correctly spelt, pretty useless on trans front... See more
http://www.wordreference.com

Access to various dictionaries inc. ES-EN Collins and DRAE.

As for PT, they used to be free - Porto Editora now Infopedia, & Michaelis - but not anymore. What's more I paid a sub to Porto Editora, and it seems to be worse than when it was free, it is totally inflexible in terms of searches (one word, must be correctly spelt, pretty useless on trans front....)

http://www.infopedia.pt/homepage.jsp
Mono & Bi

http://www1.uol.com.br/bibliot/index.htm
Mono & Bi

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Lucy Phillips
Lucy Phillips  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:17
Spanish to English
+ ...
TOPIC STARTER
thanks to everyone Mar 31, 2004

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions - much appreciated!

Lucy
 


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