Top 5 English Learner Dictionaries

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Top 5 English Learner Dictionaries

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Bilingual dictionaries are great. English learner dictionaries are better! These dictionaries have been designed with English learners in mind, and as such provide extra learning tools for pronunciation, verb types, basic grammar structures, and more. These dictionaries are also designed with standard test syllabi in mind so that learners are guided towards the TOEFL, IELTS or any of the Cambridge Suite of Exams (PET, KET, FCE, CAE and Proficiency).

1) Longman Learner's Dictionary of American English
Longman is the very best for students learning English to study, live and work in North America. This dictionary provides lots of handy refernce materials, special in-depth looks at issus such as idioms, phrasal verbs and more.

2) American Heritage Dictionary for Learners of English
The American Heritage® Dictionary for Learners of English is especially designed to suit the needs of ESL students. With an up-to-date word list and definitions adapted from The American Heritage® Dictionary databases, abundant sample sentences and phrases, and an easy-to-use alphabetic pronunciation system all provide an excellent learning tool.

3) Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
The standard in British English, the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary provides the ideal tool for English learners who wish to take any of the Cambridge advanced exams (FCE, CAE and Proficiency). Dictionary includes a learning CD-ROM with helpful resources and exercises.

4) Oxford Elementary Learner's Dictionary of English
For lower level learners, the Oxford Elementary Learner's Dictionary of English provides key English learning resources especially suited for British English classes.

5) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Oxford's advanced learner's dictionary is suited to advanced level learners of British English. Unlike most North American resources, Oxford does a great job of providing comparisons between standard North American and British English. This dictionary is excellent for those who wish to study English as a global language.
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What do you think? I'm in the process of getting a new dictionary, and I'm hesitating between the Oxford Advanced Learner's and the Cambridge Advanced Learner's.
Can you help me?

I have the Oxford Advanced Learners and i love it ;)

I have the Oxford Advanced Learner's (electronic dictionary) and I can really recommend it. "This dictionary is excellent for those who wish to study English as a global language. " <- Good description.

Cambridge International English Dictionary is the very best. I have used it once and am hoping to get the current edition. It has more than enough example sentences from all works of life and assisted by experts in their various fields. Tell me , won't you get all you desire as a learner ,even more? Seeing that sentences from poetry to psychic are present there. Now take a look at the word LENT in any other learners dictionaries ,do you find any sentences telling you how to use that word natively? No absolutely no! But Cambridge did it for me''...for lent'''_ check.

There appears to be a good number of excellent learner's dictionaries for English. Is anyone out there aware of any similar learner's dictionaries for other languages like French or German?

You know what? Oxford now has come up with a big, big learners dictionary. It's easily the biggest and obviously not the best yet. Cambridge still rules the waves like England's past.

=>Cambridge still rules the waves like England's past<=

LoL.

Sanda can you talk more about your knowledge on how England ruled the waves ,historically? Please send me email : oxbridgemodel@yahoo.co.uk

The whole concept of ruling the waves is quite new to me lol.

Awoala Jack, where are you from?

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is great,especially the Californian pronunciation


lost [lost, US last] yes yes yes

Look up "cicada" in some learner's dictionarys you have! As far as I know, two dictionarys were wrong. Not the latest edition, hopefully.

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Hi buddies! I recommend Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English especially with the CD. It's a marvel! Please, buy it and tell me about the activator -don't forget to thank me later. I've never looked up an excellent dic more than Longman Activator. Although I have all editions of Oxford Advanced Learner's, I prefer Longman now. I don't underestimate Oxford and I know it is an excellent dic but time changes to me.

OALD-6th
<cicada>
"a large insect with transparent wings, common in hot countries, that makes a continuous high sound by rubbing its legs together"

Impossible!